Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 03/09/2025“The to more efficiency makes the world a worse place” @romanmars.bsky.social 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 29/07/2025Quite obstinate. These tools become more human like :-) 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 22/07/2025Hm, my M1 Macbook is not liking Comet browsing so much; compare CPU use. Back to Dia for now. 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 03/07/2025What happens when the civic economy meets the protocol economy? Join us 15-17 September for a design charrette modeling mediation for civic economies via: currencies - tokens - current-sees. First deadline for entries call for participation 6th July. civicixdproject.com/civicprotoco... 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 13/06/2025From earlier today. The always clever @parismarx@mastodon.online on history and now of tech cementing dominance. Innovation is not limited by regulation. We should build something new. #PubConf2025 272
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 23/05/2025In 2 weeks, we will officially launch the 5th edition of the “State of Responsible IOT” report: RIOT 2025. 16 inspiring articles, a catalog of provotypes “generative things”. Join us for the festive launch Salon and/or unconference on 6 June in the heart of Rotterdam! thingscon.org/events/riot-... 022
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 21/05/2025So what will it look like? “An AI device that is an aesthetic merge between an iPhone, a titanium wristband, and a metal blob” Midjourney thinks this. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 010
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 17/04/2025Laatste publieke rede van Paul Rutten Stedelijke publieke ruimte. Tussen markt en overheid. Zowel fysiek als sociaal-cultureel en pollitiek. Stad als gemeenschap van vreemden. Overheid past een bescheiden rol. Maar commerciele partijen moeten ook ingeperkt blijven. #toekomstmakers 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 17/04/2025Today a day about future makers #toekomstmakers at Smart & Social Fest. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social opens sketching power systems as lens on technology #toekomstmakers and lack of “counter power” 000
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 29/01/2025A maybe unexpected positive take on the role of ai platforms. From pessimism to promise Lessons from the global south on designing inclusive tech Payal Arora Digital divide reversed, algorithms of aspirations, surveillance of care 010
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 16/01/2025TU Delft making sense of mobility at Dies Natalis. Four scenarios organizing the well-known societal questions - How to deal with new city autonomous moving actors - @citiesofthings.org :) - Are mobility credits a form of tokenizing economies? Report www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delf... 001
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 14/12/2024That was a great edition of ThingsCon! What a way to celebrate 10 years with the old & new community! Thanks to all students presenting their lovely work, the workshop hosts and speakers, exhibitors. WLDRF for great party. And of course all partners and (extended) team! Looking forward to 2025! 121
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 21/11/2023@peterbihr.com I did not understand the concept I think :) 100
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 20/10/2023Next years edition will be embedded in the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and one of the organisers Stephan Wensveen presented work on “Designing Conventional and Progressive AI Futures”. Looking forward to see already how Design & AI develops the coming year. www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJ... 010
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 20/10/2023And there is attention to the role of AI in society and impact on our lives. That deserves even more focus in looking into Design for AI behaviour. The (un)intended consequences (plug: thingscon.org/things-2023 100
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 20/10/2023Check out this lovely project by Anne Arzberger for instance, on Crafting Human-AI Reflexive Practice repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/ob... 110
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl · 20/10/2023Looking back at an inspirational Design & AI symposium; after the first excitement on new generative tooling there is now a true exploration what design with AI means. From applying tools to deeper conversations with the AI to understand your own choices better. www.tudelft.nl/io/actueel/c... 220