Category: conference

Paul Coppes, Commercial Product Manager KPN Things at KPN.

Maaike Harbers is a professor of applied sciences in Artificial Intelligence & Society at Research Center Creating 010, and a senior lecturer at the Creative Media and Game Technologies program, both at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her work focuses on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence on society, and she researches how designers of interactive, intelligent technology can account for the ethical implications of their concepts during design time. She often makes use of Value Sensitive Design. Currently she is involved in a research projects on public service media recommenders. Maaike Harbers holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and a MA in Philosophy.

Maaike will be hosting the workshop ‘Make Me Think!’ within the session ‘Relate to the machine‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Tessa Steenkamp (MSc) is an interaction designer focusing on interactions within cities rather than within software. She trained as an industrial designer at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and specialised in emergence and urban systems, receiving her MSc in Emergent Technologies and Design at the AA School of Architecture in London.

Currently, she works as an Experience Designer at UNSense, daughter company of architecture firm UNStudio. UNSense is a research and design company, using technology as a tool for humanising the built environment. Recent projects included the design of human-scale safety measures for The Hague’s International Zone, and convivial versions of e-commerce for the town of Waalwijk, a major logistical hub serving the Netherlands and Europe.

During her time as a Service Designer at the City of Amsterdam, Tessa initiated ‘OpenStad’ (‘OpenCity’). This government innovation programme creates digital tools for making local democracy more interactive, giving citizens more insight in – and power over – their direct living environments. Previously, Tessa worked as a designer and maker for Studio Roosegaarde in Rotterdam, and Umbrellium in London. 

Tessa will be a speaker in the session ‘The Hacking City‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Naomi Schiphorst is a Scheveningen based architect, living and working in the Netherlands. As a designer she is specialised in smart environments – interiors, buildings, streets, cities – which encourage interactions, using a context sensitive approach.

After graduating from the TUDelft in 2002, Naomi has gained experience as a project architect in several medium and large sized Dutch architecture offices. Projects vary from high-schools to headquarters, from concept to realisation. Focussing on designing transformations, adaptive re-use, redevelopments and urban infill projects, her main fascination lies in the way people together shape their environment, and then the environment shapes people. Since 2017 Naomi works on the design and development of a Smart City Infrastructure for the municipality of The Hague. In this Living Lab Scheveningen the city is exploring how to develop an open eco-system for co-creation of new services and applications by actually building it. How can we re-create our surroundings and interaction to make us healthier and less likely to drop litter, enhance nature, decrease our perception of noise and enable us to reach our destinations more quickly?

As an architect Naomi is connecting spatial (urban) design and technology while creating value for citizens, companies and organisations all working in the public realm. Looking for the cross-realm benefit require a true open mind and creative solutions.

Maria Luce Lupetti is a designer and Posdoctoral researcher at AiTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands. Her work is focused on the intersection between design, AI and robotics. Maria Luce hold a PhD in “Production, Management and Design” from Politecnico di Torino (Italy, 2018). Previous to this position, she was research fellow at Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) (2018-2019) and visiting research fellow at X-Studio, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2016-2017). An updated list of her publications can be found on ResearchGate

Maria Luce is speaker in the session ‘Relate to the machine‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Vera van de Seyp (1993, NL) is a designer and creative coder. She likes creating generative design tools, languages, and exploring the potential of new technologies such as machine learning for the design field. She lives and works in Amsterdam and Antwerp, runs a design practice, is part of various creative coding communities and teaches Digital Media at the graphic design department of ArtEZ, Arnhem.

Vera is speaker at the Connected storytelling session

I am a technology critic and privacy designer who helps citizens, designers and policymakers understand new chances and challenges in our data-driven society.

I do this mainly through PineappleJazz, a consultancy where I help organizations think strategically about technology and the future. A specific issue I talk about a lot is Social Cooling. It describes the large scale chilling effects that arise as the internet develops a new layer on top of it: the reputation economy.

I wrote the book “Design my Privacy“, a beginners guide to ethical design for the Internet of Things, and regularly share my views through articles, through presentations at events like TEDx and SXSW, or through presentations and workshops for consultants, designers and policymakers.

I co-founded SETUP, a Dutch non-profit that creates provocative design fictions to explain data-issues to a wider audience. Well known projects I worked on are Everyone a Spy, The National Birthdaycalendar, and Devious Devices.

I advise on digital arts and culture, and am a member of the Amsterdam Art Councilas well as a board member at the MU artspace in Eindhoven.

Tijmen is speaker at the Connected storytelling session and his work “CANDLE – THE PRIVACY FRIENDLY SMART HOME” can be seen on Friday at the exhibition.

Sjoerd ter Borg is the initiator of Aesthetics of Exclusion: a collective of artists, designers, coders and scientists that uses computer vision techniques and machine learning to explore and analyse aesthetical styles that relate to gentrification and processes of (urban) homogenization through large image archives such as (Google) StreetView and Instagram. Sjoerd ter Borg has graduated in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and completed his master at the Sandberg Instituut. In 2014, he was selected for the talent development program from the Creative Industries Fund (NL). In 2015 he spent a summer residency Documentary Art at Uniondocs, New York. In 2018 he received the Icarus Award, a Dutch prize for art works reflecting about technology and society. His worked has been featured at Alcova Sassetti (Milan Design Week), Art Center Nabi (Seoul), IDFA Doclab Conference (Amsterdam), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Northside Festival (New York), Forms Festival (Toronto), Studio-X (Rio de Janeiro), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and the Biennale of Urbanism 2013 (Shenzhen, China).

Sjoerd will be presenting in the session ‘The Hacking City’ (Friday 11-13h)