Sep 17, 2019“Contestable Infrastructures” at Beyond Smart Cities TodayI’ll be at Beyond Smart Cities Today the next couple of days (18–19 September). Below is the abstract I submitted, plus a bibliography of some of the stuff that went into my thinking for this and related matters that I won’t have the time to get into. In the actually…Contestability2 min readContestability2 min read
Jul 16, 2019“Contestable Infrastructures: Designing for Dissent in Smart Public Objects” at We Make the City 2019Thijs Turèl of AMS Institute and myself presented a version of the talk below at the Cities for Digital Rights conference on June 19 in Amsterdam during the We Make the City festival. The talk is an attempt to articulate some of the ideas we both have been developing for…Algorithmic Systems7 min readAlgorithmic Systems7 min read
Jun 14, 2019Research Through Design Reading ListAfter posting the list of engineering ethics readings it occurred to me I also have a really nice collection of things to read from a course on research through design taught by Pieter Jan Stappers, which I took earlier this year. …Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Jun 11, 2019Engineering Ethics Reading ListI recently followed an excellent three-day course on engineering ethics. It was offered by the TU Delft graduate school and taught by Behnam Taibi with guest lectures from several of our faculty. I found it particularly helpful to get some suggestions for further reading that represent some of the foundational…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Jan 3, 2019Books I’ve read in 2018Goodreads tells me I’ve read 48 books in 2018. I set myself the goal of 36 so it looks like I beat it handily. But included in that count are quite a few roleplaying game books and comics. If I discard those I’m left with 28 titles. Still a decent…20183 min read20183 min read
Sep 19, 2018‘Unboxing’ at Behavior Design Amsterdam #16Below is a write-up of the talk I gave at the Behavior Design Amsterdam #16 meetup on Thursday, February 15, 2018. I’d like to talk about the future of our design practice and what I think we should focus our attention on. It is all related to this idea of…Complexity7 min readComplexity7 min read
Sep 4, 2018Starting a PhDToday is the first official work day of my new doctoral researcher position at Delft University of Technology. After more than two years of laying the ground work, I’m starting out on a new challenge. I remember sitting outside a Jewel coffee bar in Singapore and going over the various…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Feb 27, 2018An Introduction to Value Sensitive DesignAt a recent Tech Solidarity NL meetup we dove into Value Sensitive Design. …10 min read10 min read
Jan 25, 2018‘Playful Design for Workplace Change Management’ at PLAYTrack conference 2017 in AarhusAt the end of last year I was invited to speak at the PLAYTrack conference in Aarhus about the workplace change management games made by Hubbub. It turned out to be a great opportunity to reconnect with the play research community. I was very much impressed by the program assembled…Learning6 min readLearning6 min read
Jan 2, 2018Prototyping the Useless Butler: Machine Learning for IoT DesignersAt ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017, Péter and I ran a second iteration of our machine learning workshop. We improved on our first attempt at TU Delft in a number of ways. We prepared example code for communicating with Wekinatorfrom a wifi connected Arduino MKR1000 over OSC. We created a predefined breadboard…Internet Of Things4 min readInternet Of Things4 min read
