The program for this year’s TH/NGS is filling up. We are still discussing session details and expect some changes, so this overview is preliminary.
Thursday 12 December
The Thursday program will be dedicated to longer-format workshops. We start at 10:00 and end at 17:00, with lunch in between to meet each other and drinks afterward.
| 9:30 – Collect (and make) your badge |
| 10:00 – Morning workshops Rethinking Fashion Systems (Troy Nachtigall) More-than-human design card deck (Eva van der Born) Negotiating Flexible Urban Futures with AI (Zeynep Ugur) New relations with Generative Things (Sen Lin, Iskander Smit) |
| 13:00 – Lunch |
| 14:00 – Afternoon workshops Plushification – Soft DIY Devices for Private Communication (workshop – Albrecht Kurze, Arne Berger, Klaus Stephan, Stephan Hildebrandt, Karola Köpferl) How to become a Generative Things designer? (panel – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Dries De Roeck, Iohanna Nicenboim, Iskander Smit, Simone Rebaudengo) Generating Trust In A Digital Food System (workshop – Lorna Goulden, Kai Hermsen) Distributed everything – a workshop on weird modularity (workshop – Joep Frens, Mathias Funk, Janet Huang) |
| 17:00 – Drinks |
| 17:30 – 10 year of Things party – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino – Team ThingsCon now and then – WLDRF |
| 22:00 – End |
Friday 13 December
The Friday program will have morning workshops and an afternoon plenary program. The timing is subject to change.
| 9:00 – Walk in and make your badge |
| 9:45 – Welcome and look back at day 1 |
| 10:00 – Opening keynote Matt Webb |
| 10:30 – Workshops and Exhibition introduction |
| 10:45 – Break |
| 11:00 – Workshops – Proactive civic relationships with urban tech in public spaces (workshop – Mike de Kreek, Tessa Steenkamp) – Reboot & Reimagine (workshop – Geke van Dijk) – Uncover the (Gen)AI Blindspots of Generative Things (workshop- Jonne van Belle) – AI Dreams & Disruptions (workshop – Sen Lin) – Bugs as features: insect detection on the edge (workshop – Titus Venverloo, Åse Håtveit, Giacomo Orsi) – Enaction human robot encounters (workshop – Nazli Cila, Marco Rozendaal) – Human agency, autonomy and safety in immersive experiences (panel) – Interactive Environments – exhibition tour (Allessandro Ianniello) – Design contest Generative Things – exhibition tour (Iskander Smit) |
| 13:00 – Lunch and visit the exhibition |
| 14:00 Pitches exhibited projects Keynote Iohanna Nicenboim Rethink Design: A vocabulary for designing with AI – book launch and panel (Roy Bendor, Dave Murray-Rust, Kars Alfrink, Dasha Simons) organized by DCODE network |
| 15:30 – Break and visit the exhibition |
| 16:15 Keynote Manon den Dunnen Pitches exhibited projects Closing keynote Simone Rebaudengo |
| 17:30 – Wrap up |
| 18:00 – Drinks |
Exhibition
We are completing the list of exhibited work, so this list will grow.
- TH/NGS 10 Generative Things from the Next Decade
- Interactive Environments of TU Delft
- Smart Objects minor of The Hague University of Applied Sciences
- When ChatGPT meets an old Typewriter – TU Chemnitz
- Fonetic – safe and private AI for public spaces
- Shadowplay by Joseph Lindley
- Relics from a future past by Peter Bihr
- Shaped By – An installation about Social Media comments shaping Self Perception – Berlin International UAS
- Knit+ – robot produced garments
Let us know if you have a (recent) project we should show at the exhibition.
Registration
This year, the regular price for one day is 100 eu, and the full conference pass is 175 eu. The ticket includes entrance and catering on the conference days. You are also invited to join our special Thursday evening program.