Future Frictions has been present at Gogbot 2022, at the WARP technopolis exhibition space. With this exhibit, we aimed at creating awareness about our project, and spread the word about the power of providing creative forms of engagement to think of smart city futures. More about the event at: https://2022.gogbot.nl/warp-technopolis/# Nice to be part of […]
On Thursday, July 28, 2022, Julieta Matos Castaño had a conversation with Rod Falcon (https://www.iftf.org/home/) about how we can use futures thinking to stimulate ethical reflection on smart cities. She was part of the Foresight Talks organized by the Institute for the Future ( ttps://www.iftf.org/foresighttalks/ ). Julieta shared and demonstrated the “Future Frictions” web experience, […]
From June 25th – July 3rd, the global Design Research Society (DRS) bi-annual conference took place in Bilbao, Spain. Anouk participated in this event and presented her paper ‘Positioning design in transdisciplinary collaborations: Experiences from a smart city consortium project’ during the Design Methods and Transdisciplinary Practices track. It was a real pleasure to finally […]
Our colleagues Anouk Geenen and Julieta Matos-Castaño participated in the Future Based podcast series to talk about the intricate nature of human-technology relations in the city. What do we need to not only reflect on and analyze past or current practices, but to foster our imagination and collective sensemaking to take action towards inclusive and […]
Anouk joined the EASST conference in Madrid from July 6t – 8th – the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. This year’s theme was ‘Politics of Technoscientific Futures’ – and Anouk presented part of her PhD research on socio-technical controversies during the panel on AI controversies. Specifically, she presented our tool ‘Future Frictions’ […]
This year, Anouk got selected to participate in the YouthDIG program, part of the EuroDIG community – the European Dialogue on Internet Governance. After spending the last months preparing and meeting other participants online, she joined the community in Trieste, Italy from 18-22 June. During this event, important issues in the digital domain were on […]
Last December 2021, Julieta Matos Castaño talked about our experiences at the Dutch Design Week, showcasing Future Frictions and talking about the importance of providing creative forms of engagement to explore smart city futures. Listen to the podcast here: DesignLab Brew, initiated by Jasper-Sebastian Häsler and Nefeli Kousi, started out of a need to reach […]
On 19 October 2021, we participated in the Up Close & Personal talk show organized by Design United for the DDW21. We discussed how, with “Future Frictions“, we explore alternative forms of engagement to reflect on smart city futures. It was a wonderful experience to be there, and to be inspired by very interesting projects […]
Have you ever heard about “transdisciplinarity”? and “transdisciplinary working”? In this video, Mascha van der Voort talks about transdisciplinary working, a very important aspect of our Responsible Cities project!
Our colleague Corelia Baibarac-Duignan presented at the Data Justice Conference last 20-21 May 2021. In the video below, you may watch her talk entitled: “From controversies to controversing: producing civic engagement in the datafied smart city”. Enjoy!