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Introduction

Iskander was educated as an industrial design engineer at the Technical University in Delft and worked after his studies at the Dutch consumer organization Consumentenbond, pioneering with digital media as a means for the critical services of this organization.

Since 2001, Iskander has worked in various roles for the digital agency INFO. His latest position was innovation and research director.

With INFO_LABS, he worked since 2012 on the next future developments within themes like hyper-relevant ‘impulse shaped’ services, big data science, playful interactions, connected devices, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and new design methods. Vision development is combined with conducting experiments with partners, clients, and universities.

Iskander actively shares his vision via social media, blogs, and conference talks.

He is a co-founder and organizer of the Behavior Design AMS meetup (2700 members). He initiated and co-organizes the Dutch edition of the Berlin conference ThingsCon in 2014 and is chairman of the foundation ThingsCon Amsterdam.

In 2017, Iskander was appointed as a Design United visiting professor at TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering in the Connected Everyday Lab. In 2018 he founded the Cities of Things Design Lab with prof Elisa Giaccardi.

In 2021, the Cities of Things Foundation was established as a knowledge hub. Iskander is the chairman of the foundation. The Wijkbot prototyping kit is developed.

In 2022, Iskander joined Structural BV as design director, a startup pioneering a new kind of analysis and design for improving the quality of infrastructures and services. Iskander was responsible for developing AI platform to apply the language, methodology, and idealism behind ‘Beautiful Contracts’.

In October 2023, Iskander founded Target_is_New as a practice for making sense of unpredictable futures in human-AI partnerships. He focuses on future research, product discovery, and design strategy. In a weekly newsletter, he reflects on human-technology relations and the latest in robotics and augmented intelligence.

Experience

Consumentenbond (1994 – 2001)

The Dutch consumer organization publishes product tests, develops policies on consumer rights for politics, and advises members on personal consumer rights. 

Iskander worked with the innovation manager to pioneer new media as an instrument for publication and service platforms. They were developing CD-rom products and initiating the first websites starting in 1996.

He was an internal advisor for new media, contributing diverse publications and policy papers, and part of the team setting up the Web Trader European quality system for webshops.

He was the project manager of Internet projects and titles, chairing the content teams. He was responsible for new product development.

INFO (2001 – 2022)

One of the larger Dutch full-service Internet Agencies focuses on designing, developing, and managing online services in close partnership with her clients.

2001 – 2005; Senior Information Designer

Projects in concept development and interaction design for clients like Jaarbeurs Utrecht (exhibitions), Ben (now T-Mobile), Netdokter, Rabobank, Van Lanschot Bank, Friesland Bank, ASN Bank, Woningnet, Robeco, Delta Lloyd, De Lotto, and Routenet.

As senior designer responsible for developing and directing the interaction concept, advising the client and contributing to new project development.

2005 – present; Strategy director

Developing online strategies for clients like Robeco, Van Lanschot Bank, SNS Bank, Allianz, Vestia (housing corporation), Myler (independent worker platform), ING, SDU, and Kluwer.

Social media strategies for Pathé (movies), ABN AMRO, T-Mobile, Robeco, GroenLinks (political party).

Future inspiration sessions for clients like Volkskrant, Van Lanschot, SNS Bank, Vestia, ING, Hartstichting, Allsecur, PWN, Goudse Verzekeringen, Heineken, Sanoma.

Trendwatching, keeping track, and making internal reports on the latest trends both in technology, design, and societal aspects.

Developing models of “Virtual Warmth” and “Exploding Websites” as frameworks for digital products and services.

Contributing to the sales team presenting our vision and advising strategies and concepts. Successfully pitching concepts leading to long-term client relations like SNS, Achmea, and Rabobank, ASN Bank, Vestia, Van Lanschot, Rijkswaterstaat.

Member of Management Team 

2011 – 2022; Innovation director, Research director

Working on experiments and research projects, self-initiated and in partnership with (applied) universities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Technical University of Delft, with clients like the Ministry of External Affairs.

Managing structural partnerships with Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Digital Life Lab, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Creating010 research center, Delft University of Technology faculty of Industrial Design Connected Everyday Lab.

Part of consortia, research programs (COMMIT, RAAK, KIEM), MIT, Fiware, BOM. Managing WBSO projects.

Themes covered big data, haptic interactions, the Internet of things, wearables, and adaptive products.

Specific themes were among others: Impulse Shaped Services, Big Data for Tiny Services, Adaptive Interactions in the Internet of Touch, Connectables, New type of things, Predictive relations, Applied AI, new relations with the psychical twin

Organizing internal and external events, hackathons. Speaking and publishing in Netherlands and internationally.

The activities were organized within INFO_LABS and in research projects. See the separate selection of projects.

TU Delft Faculty Industrial Design Engineering (2017 – 2021)

2017 – 2018 Design United visiting professor Connected Everyday Lab

Design United, the 4TU research center for design, enhances the innovative strength of the Dutch creative industry by bridging the gap between design research and the design community.

Visiting Professor (0,2) at Industrial Design Engineering / Connected Everyday Lab of Professor Elisa Giaccardi. Setting up a PPP research program Things as Citizens, to explore how new intelligent things could contribute as citizens in the intelligent city called PACT (Partnerships in Cities of Things). 

2018 – 2019 PhD candidate 

Researching ‘Designing Predictive Relations’; the research investigates the concept of Predictive Relations as foundational to the nascent design space of the connected product designer. With the rise of the Internet of Things and the shift from single products to decentralized systems, the functional working of artifacts will be defined for a great part in the digital layer.

2018 – 2021 co-director Delft Design Lab Cities of Things 

In 2018 established a Delft Design Lab on the theme Cities of Things. The lab aims to connect practice to the research capabilities of (mainly) master students and build a body of knowledge. The lab had partners like AMS-institute, Waag, INFO, Advier, PGGM and during the three years, 16 master graduation projects were completed. 

See an overview on Cities of Things website (citiesofthings.org).

Structural BV (2022-2023)

Structural is a language technology startup with the vision of making it easier for enterprises to promise each other demand or supply in ways that put everyone in better positions to produce profit and public good. Structural is developing an AI-powered platform that allows teams to collaboratively design contracts that won’t easily break under economic stress because they are strong and resilient under a wider set of conditions.

As Design Director, Iskander focused on the development of a prototype of the tooling for the analysts of Structural. I designed the AI co-pilot that will become the platform’s core to support the collaborative dialogue process of crafting the ‘beautiful contracts’ via prompt engineering for promises.

In the summer of 2023, Structural BV is awaiting new investments and has decided to hibernate until then.

strctrl.org

Target_is_New (2023 – present)

As an extension of years of reflecting and sharing the latest tech news, focusing on new human-technology relations, Iskander now offers future studies as a knowledge product to organizations looking to develop insights and strategies for the new relationship between humans and intelligent technology. Target_is_New delivers these studies in different packages tailored to the organization’s needs.

Target_is_New aims to be a practice for making sense of unpredictable futures in human-AI partnerships.

Projects as an independent digital design strategist and thought leader included supporting the new Agenda “Power of Design” editorial team for CLICKNL, part of the Topsector Creative Industries, that was launched in March 2024.

https://www.clicknl.nl/agenda-ontwerpkracht

Initiated by topteam Creative Industry, Iskander was one of two “quartermasters” for a new program exploring and shaping a new program and coalition of design agencies, government parties, and domain specialists to connect design power to fight poverty with proactive and responsible intelligent digital services.

For the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Civic IxD group, Iskander is invited to a residency to explore the question: ‘What happens when the Civic Economy meets the Protocol Economy?’. Iskander works as a resident researcher with support from the Centre for Economic Transformation (CET). October-December 2024.

https://civicinteractiondesign.com/news/civicixd-granted-residency-to-explore-what-happens-when-the-civic-economy-meets-the-protocol-economy/

More on targetisnew.com

Education

1981-1987 – VWO – Castricum/Beverwijk
1987-1993 – Technical University Delft – Industrial Design Engineering – Ingenieur (MSc) 
2017-2019 – Technical University Delft – Industrial Design Engineering – PhD candidate (not completed)
1999 Project management and personal strength, Nimo, Amersfoort
2002 Professional Presenting II, SRM, Amsterdam
2003 Unified Modelling Language (UML), Info.nl
2003 Concept development, SRM, Harderwijk

Publications and public speaking

Publications

Personal blog since 2005 http://targetisnew.com 

Weekly newsletter Target_is_new since 2015 https://target-is-new.ghost.io/

Monthly newsletter Cities of Things since 2021 https://citiesofthings.substack.com 

Guest blogger for Molblog, Marketingfacts, Adformatie, Emerce. 

(Academic) publications:

  • Cila, N., Smit, I., Giaccardi, E., & Kröse, B. (2017, May). Products as agents: Metaphors for designing the products of the IoT age. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 448-459) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025797 
  • Lupetti, M. L., Smit, I., & Cila, N. (2018, September). Near future cities of things: addressing dilemmas through design fiction. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 787-800). https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3240273 
  • Valentine, D., Smit, I., & Kim, E. (2021). Designing for calibrated trust: exploring the challenges in calibrating trust between users and autonomous vehicles. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 1143-1152 https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.114
  • Smit, I. The Alienating Consequences of Things That Predict. The State of Responsible IoT 2019. The State of Responsible IoT 2019 — Small Escapes from Surveillance Capitalism
  • De Roeck, D., & Smit, I. Ludicrous IoT Dreams. The State of Responsible IoT 2020, 21. Ludicrious IoT Dreams
  • Guo, P., & Smit, I. (2022, June). Towards an Active Predictive Relation by Reconceptualizing a Vacuum Robot: Research on the Transparency and Acceptance of the Predictive Behaviors. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 241-256). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Jaśkiewicz, T., & Smit, I. Between Experiments Leveraging Prototypes to Trigger, Articulate, and Share Informal Knowledge: Case of the Cities of Things Living Lab. (2024) In Applied Design Research in Living Labs and Other Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments (pp. 210-233). CRC Press.
  • Smit, I. (2025). Ubiquitous immersive relations with generative things. In RIOT 2025, State of Responsible Tech – Generative Things (pp. 31-35). Stichting ThingsCon Amsterdam
    https://thingscon.org/publications/riot-2025/riot-2025-ubiquitous-immersive-relations-with-generative-things/

Public speaking (selection)

2008 Reboot 8 (Copenhagen), Emerce Eday (Rotterdam)

2009 Mobile Monday #10 (Amsterdam), Reboot 9 (Copenhagen), EuroIA (Copenhagen), Emerce Eday (Rotterdam)

2010 Marketing Pioneers (Amsterdam), The Next Web (Amsterdam), National Marketing Day (Bussum), The Web And Beyond (Amsterdam), Digital Recruitment (Utrecht), GX Connect (Amsterdam)

2011 Club of Amsterdam – Future of Services (Amsterdam), Liquid Internet – Web 3.0 (Utrecht), Annual Internet of Things Europe (Brussels), PICNIC (Amsterdam), Online Tuesday (Amsterdam)

2012 Seminar Short Range Wireless Communication (Tilburg), Club of Amsterdam – Future of Taxes (Amsterdam), Knowledge session Big Data (Amsterdam), Media Battle (Utrecht), CMO Dinner (Amsterdam), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Inbo Architects (Woudenberg), UX Cocktailhour (Amsterdam)

2013 ProductTank (Amsterdam), IoT Week (Rotterdam), IoT Europe event (Eindhoven), Facebook Marketing Event (Utrecht), Shopping Today (Almere), Innovatie-estafette (Amsterdam), TU Delft Honors Program (Delft), Interactieve Professionals Associatie Netherlands (Amsterdam), Adobe User Group (Rotterdam)

2014 Rabobank innovation session (Utrecht), Webwinkel Vakdagen (Utrecht), Cross Media Cafe (Hilversum), Mens voor de Lens (Amsterdam), Young Equens, Shopping2020 (Utrecht), Data of the Crowds (Rotterdam), Ministry of General Affairs (The Hague), Google Glass Meetup (Amsterdam), Amsterdam Creative Industries Future of Retail (Amsterdam), Thingscon (Amsterdam), OPEN Wear (Amsterdam)

2015 Firestarters (Amsterdam), A-wearable (Rotterdam), Thingscon (Berlin), Are You Connected? (Rotterdam), Hack The Visual (London), IoT Shifts (Barcelona), ThingsCon Amsterdam

2016 IoT Eindhoven, IoT Olympics (Amsterdam), Behavioral Informatics Seminar (Amsterdam), Bosch Connected Experience (Berlin), SXSW (Austin), NRC Live (Amsterdam), Rockstart Smart Energy Summit (Amsterdam), ThingsCon Salon #1 (Amsterdam), CrossMediaCafé (Hilversum), DrupalJam (Utrecht), Campus Party (Utrecht), Darefest (Antwerpen), IoT and the City (Amsterdam), DDA in Paris, UX Cocktailhour (Amsterdam), ThingsCon Amsterdam

2017 Bitcoin Wednesday (Amsterdam), Cross Media Café (Hilversum), SXSW New Dutch Wave (Austin), Data and the Self hackathon (Rotterdam), Avans Hogeschool (Breda), ThingsCon Shenzhen (Shenzhen), Butterfly Works (Amsterdam), Dare (Amsterdam), ThingsCon (Amsterdam)

2018 Symposium Things As Citizens (Amsterdam), Rotary (Purmerend), IoT Rotterdam, AVANS (Breda), Brunel (Utrecht), The Next Web (Amsterdam), Border Sessions (Den Haag), HvA Festival (Amsterdam), DRIVE (Eindhoven)

2019 BTCM Mobility trends (Amsterdam), TU Delft Master Research Day (Delft), Media Perspectives masterclass (Hilversum), HU guest college (Utrecht), IoT Rotterdam, AVANS (Breda), Digital Society School micdrop (Amsterdam), Sensemakers AMS (Amsterdam), Behavior Design AMS (Amsterdam), Future of Mobility session (Amsterdam), ThingsCon (Rotterdam)

2020 TU Delft Master Research Day (Delft), HU guest college (Utrecht, online), AVANS (Breda, online), NGI Policy Seminar (online), Media Perspectives masterclass (Hilversum, online), VanMoof talks (Amsterdam, online), ThingsCon (Rotterdam, online)

2021 TU Delft Master Research Day (Delft), HU guest college (Utrecht, online), IoT Rotterdam, AVANS (Breda, online, DAAD (Berlin, online), Privacy Talks (Tokyo, online) podcast ThingsCon Stories, podcast Getting Tech Right, podcast iBestuur Digitalisering op Drift (Amsterdam)

2022 MILE lecture (Amsterdam), Mozfest (online), AVANS (Breda), ThingsCon (Rotterdam)

2023 AVANS Smart Systems (online), Smart & Social Fest (Rotterdam), Creative Coding (Hamburg), Dutch Design Week/DRIVE (Eindhoven), ThingsCon (Rotterdam)2024 Pecha Kucha IPO (Rotterdam), Clever○Franke AI meetup (Utrecht), PublicSpaces conference (Amsterdam), Society 5.0 festival (Amsterdam), ThingsCon (Amsterdam)

2024 Pecha Kucha IPO (Rotterdam), Clever|Franke AI session (Utrecht), Public Spaces (Amsterdam), Society 5.0 Festival (Amsterdam), Avans (Breda), The Hague UAS (Delft), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), ThingsCon (Amsterdam)

2025 Smart & Social Festival (Rotterdam), ThingsCon Salon (Amsterdam), Food for Thought (Amsterdam), InChange (Amsterdam), Society 5.0 Festival (Amsterdam)

Other activities

Organizer Behavior Design AMS (2013 – 2019)

Co-founder, curator, and organizer of a running series of meetups around the specific design topic for behavioral change. The Meetup group already has about 2700 members.

In 2013, Somehow and INFO LABS took the initiative to organize a meetup and organized, on average 3 meetups per year around several themes, with each 50-100 attendees. Every meetup aimed to have three speakers: one with a design background, one company, and one academic. Some meetups were organized with partners. See the list of meetups here: https://www.meetup.com/Behavior-Design-AMS/events/past/ 

Chairman ThingsCon Amsterdam (2014 – present)

ThingsCon is Europe’s leading conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and the Internet of Things. ThingsCon was started in Berlin and is growing into a global community of like-minded practitioners around the Internet of Things (IoT) and new hardware. We have the mission to foster the creation of human-centric and responsible Internet of Things.

Iskander initiated the Amsterdam chapter of ThingsCon in 2014 and organized since then together with Monique van Dusseldorp and Marcel Schouwenaar conferences in 2014 (120 attendees), 2015 (250 attendees) and 2016-2021 (300 attendees), and 21 Salons in 2016-present, and a research trip to Shenzhen in 2017.

In February 2017, we established a foundation for ThingsCon Amsterdam with four board members (Iskander Smit, Pieter Diepenmaat, Lorna Goulden).

Check the website thingscon.org/events for a complete overview.

TechSolidarity NL (2016 – 2017)

Tech Solidarity NL is a grassroots community of tech workers in the Netherlands advancing the design and development of more just and egalitarian technology. Initiated by Kars Alfrink and Iskander Smit

In 2017 and 2018, we organized 16 meetups on privacy topics, politics of tech, and value-sensitive design. See overview on the website.

Commissions

Part of reviewing commissions for CMD studies of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht UAS, AVANS UAS, Master Digital Design AUAS

Ambassador Digital Design School AUAS track Digital to Physical.

Overview research activities

To give an impression of different entities’ research activities over the years. 

Innovation Lab INFO 

LABS was established back in 2012 to create a space for exploring new developments new partnerships and, strengthen the innovative implicit DNA of INFO, and make it more explicit. We were unsure what it would turn into services for clients or an R&D center apart from the daily business. We built a reputation as a front-runner in positioning innovation and experimenting in an agency context. We established a name in the Internet of Things, new ways of interaction beyond the screen, and designed and developed new wearable interfaces. We explored hackathons as a means to learn, build partnerships with universities of applied sciences, and play a role in recruiting new talent directly or indirectly. 

In 2017, we decided that we should take the next step in developing a framework for research. We divided the activities along the lines of applied and fundamental research. The fundamental research was operationalized in a close relationship with TU Delft as a visiting professor role. In the plan for LABS in 2017, we explicitly separated LABS from the operational teams of INFO. We created a connection for the applied research agenda through the strategic board next to having fundamental research as an external-driven activity.

Over the last ten years, LABS has initiated numerous research projects and been a partner in others. We worked on a matching basis with other companies in innovation programs like Innovation Presentation Contracts, Creative Industries Fund, COMMIT, and RAAK MKB.

With LABS we looked into new technologies that could become relevant for our clients or develop new markets. ‘Big Data for Tiny Services’ was one of the first white papers. The blurring lines of the physical and digital worlds, the internet of things, and later artificial intelligence. Organizing internal hackathons, masterclasses, knowledge sharing sessions. Research through design by making and experimenting with ’embedded’ employees’ or student teams.

Some of the partnerships and projects:

  • Partnership Digital Life Center of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences:
    • Haptic device, design for haptic interactions, minor projects IoT, COMMIT project TASST
    • Eyebeacons wayfinding for visually impaired people
    • Minor IoT multiple projects
    • Minor Intelligent Environment multiple projects
    • Minor Mobile Development multiple projects 
    • Bluetooth beacons product development Stampions
  • Partnership Creating 010
    • Hackathons for IoT Rotterdam 2014-2019
    • Minor assignments
    • Graduation assignments
  • Partnerships with other companies
    • IPC (Innovatie Prestatie Contract), Smart Sharing collaboration 
    • IPC Sensor-based health feedback loops 
    • The Civic City; smart city from a citizen perspective, supported by Stimuleringsfonds npk, LustLab, INFO 
  • Internal research
    • Smart building, indoor localization, mesh networked fire escape lighting 
    • First GoogleGlass explorations in the Netherlands (2013)
    • Designing for the Internet of Things
    • LoRa experiments, Bambea project Fiware European funded.
    • 15 graduation projects, five interns, 20 minor assignments for Universities of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Enschede, Breda
  • Projects
    • Hackathons for Ministries of Internal Affairs, External affairs
    • Stampions (2015-2017) Bluetooth beacons (funding by the province of Noord-Holland)
    • Research Protocol Economy for PGGM (2022)
  • Expert
    • Future of Retail, Shopping 2020, Future Touchpoints workgroup
    • Multiple guest lectures assignments for student projects for universities of applied sciences Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht, AVANS Breda, Media Perspectives, MAD Genk, TU Delft, Design Lab UTwente
    • Several inspiration/trend sessions, expert panels on the future of retail, internet of things, smart cities, wearables, and more. For amongst others KLM, Albert Heijn, Rabobank, Makro, Klarna, VanMoof, BNA
  • Internal education
    • Arduino course for employees, AI introduction masterclasses
    • Buzz-lab sessions, trendspotting lunches for employees
  • Funded research (matching)
    • Smart Systems OP Zuid funding program (2016)
  • Organizing knowledge sharing
  • And presentations, see below.

Delft Design Lab Cities of Things

Our cities will change by the new citizens: citythings that operate on AI and IoT and are autonomous. Things become citizens too. And human citizens will build new relations with these things. The shift towards intelligent things in our lives and our cities is accelerating in the last years. It impacts the design of cities and the design of the interactions with these citythings. It influences governance and policymaking. It opens up new design opportunities above all; and new service concepts. Capable of performing tasks and making judgments next to us, Things increasingly “work with us” to produce positive change in everyday life. 

Within Cities of Things, we look to this new future. In the Cities of Things Delft Design Lab, we are shaping the future of our cities with intelligent things.

IDE DDL Cities of Things works structurally with the Connected Everyday Lab and the Internet of Things research group. Next to that, we have worked in the context of graduation projects together with the Seamless Personal Mobility Lab, and People In Transit. We have links with AITech within TU Delft. Externally we have partnerships with INFO and Advier, AMS Institute, WAAG, and ThingsCon, Projects with Schiphol, ANWB, PGGM.

The postdoc research of Maria Luce Lupetti and Nazli Cila kicked off the research in the design lab. We commissioned assignments for bachelor and master projects at IDE and Master Digital Design Amsterdam. The Delft Design Lab 16 graduation research projects contributed to building knowledge on connected devices, predictive knowledge, intelligent cities, smart mobility, etc.

2018: 

2019:

  • Improving the airport landside connectivity through the Internet of Things (Petek Tezcan for Schiphol);
  • Connected car service for small and medium enterprises (Tijn van Vliet) for ANWB),
  • Databox as a bridge between researchers and data subjects (Pablo Ferrera Chumillas)

2020: 

2021:

2022:

Cities of Things Foundation

The Cities of Things Foundation aims to increase and disseminate knowledge about coexisting with intelligent autonomous objects in the urban environment. This knowledge is collected and made available to designers of urban space and objects in that urban space, policymakers of urban space, and all other stakeholders. 

The foundation achieves this primarily by bringing together experts and professionals in knowledge sessions, field labs, and other activities that can multiply knowledge. The knowledge is disseminated by producing publications and organizing meetings, trips, presentations, and other activities, as well as anything directly or indirectly related or beneficial to this.

2020 – present Field lab Cities of Things as part of Creative Embassy Munich-Amsterdam

As a follow-up to the existing collaboration of the two cities’ creative industries, a consortium is built with several Dutch and German agencies. The first field lab project will be shaped around shared resources and neighborhood hubs. The letter of intent was signed in October after a year of preparations and consortium building during COVID-19. The field lab project aims to start media in 2022.

Currently, a master’s graduation student is working on an iteration of the Collect Connect Community Hub as an engaging Neighbour, and we are part of a research project from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences on sustainable neighborhood hubs.

2021-2023 CityLab010 Cities of Things Lab010

CityLab010 is a start subsidiary for projects that contribute to the development of the city of Rotterdam. The proposal Cities of Things Foundation and Creating 010 of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences was granted, and the project will kick off in early 2022. A LabKar will allow citizens to prototype ‘cities of things-services’ within their neighborhood and learn about the impact and opportunities. We developed a prototype kit, Wijkbot that is used in several events, workshop and student projects and is developed as Inzamelbot for Grondstoffenstation Afrikaanderwijk in close collaboration with the Denktank of local residents.

2021-present Cities of Things WijkbotKit

The WijkbotKit, developed as part of the CityLab010 project, continues to serve as the basis for several educational programs and workshops.

  • graduation student working at VONK, the innovation center of the City of Rotterdam
  • 3 teams of Industrial Product Designers from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
  • 3 teams of minor ICUX from RUAS
  • 3 teams of minor Technical Informatics RUAS
  • 3 teams of master Next Level Engineering The Hague University of Applied Sciences
  • 4 teams of students from Delft University of Technology Industrial Design Engineering in the course Interactive Technology Design
  • workshop at Public Spaces conference
  • neighborhood hackathon in Afrikaanderwijk
  • development of an educational game for primary and high school “City Robotica”
  • partner in a new to set up Digital Social Innovation Lab in Rotterdam
  • workshop Society 5.0 Festival
  • development WijkbotKit “knowledge product” funded by ESCall (Expertisecentrum Systemic Co-design)
  • workshops “New interactions with Generative Things” for AVANS master Health by Design, master Next Level Engineering THUAS.

citiesofthings.org
wijkbot.nl