This project environment is the source of an online publication of the objects designed by designers envisioning how things might instantiate in the next decade into a context of digital being mixed with generative AI capabilities.
The exhibition was part of TH/NGS 2024, 13 December 2024 in Volkshotel Amsterdam, celebrating 10 years of ThingsCon, and will travel to other places in 2025, first at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Master Digital Design 14-15 April, and at Waag Futurelab at 14 June.
Part of this website is the brief for the participating designers and teams. We have officially kicked off the project via a special event in Eindhoven on 23 October 2024. The design brief is based on the reflections of selection of futures designers and thinkers, invited by ThingsCon. You will find the design brief and the reflections on this webspace.
On 6 December three judges sat together and decided that the 14 valid projects deserved all a place in the exhibition. Some interesting themes emerged from the different projects, that might be a start for the next iterations thinking about generative things.
In the exhibition of 14-15 April we will exhibit 11 provotypes.
To inspire your design, we invited experience designers from practice and academia to explore the context of Generative Things. Contributions from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Anna Garghetti, Heather Wiltse, Iohanna Nicenboim, Johan Redström, Matt Webb, Simone Rebaudengo
Practical documentation about the exhibition.