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.
Note: at ThingsCon you do not have to subscribe for workshops in advance, you will choose your favorite workshop at the venue.
| 9:30 – Collect (and make) your badge |
| 10:00 – Morning workshops Rethinking Fashion Systems (Troy Nachtigall) Embracing More-Than-Human Perspectives in a Transforming World (Eva van der Born, Anna Merl, Kuangyi Xing and Tom Kuivenhoven) Negotiating Flexible Urban Futures with AI (Zeynep Ugur) |
| 13:00 – Lunch |
| 14:00 – Afternoon workshops Plushification – Soft DIY Devices for Private Communication (workshop – Albrecht Kurze, Arne Berger, Klaus Stephan, Stephan Hildebrandt) 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, Slava Kozlov, Katerina Khomenchuck) 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, Katy Barnard, Bas Raijmakers) – 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, Orlando Closs) – Generative Imagination — speculating a future of Earthly Delights (workshop – Marcel Schouwenaar) – Human agency, autonomy and safety in immersive experiences (panel – Manon den Dunnen, Vera van der Burg, Rosa Louwerse, Esther Hammelburg, Monique van Dusseldorp – 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.