As a little experiment and a way to reflect on a part of the research from the last 7 years of Cities of Things, I used the (in)famous Notebook LM tool to create a podcast discussing research sources. The result was rather pleasing, in the sense that based on four sources it gave a rather accurate description of the backgrounds of the Hoodbot research and the link with concepts we are exploring with Fifth Order Design.
The research sources were:
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).
Lupetti, M. L., & Cila, N. (2019, October). Envisioning and questioning near future urban robotics. In Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. Conference: Desform.
JaĆkiewicz, T., & Smit, I. (2024). Between experiments leveraging prototypes to trigger, articulate, and share informal knowledge: Case of the cities of things living lab. In Applied Design Research in Living Labs and Other Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments (pp. 210-233). CRC Press.
Stompff, G., Jaskiewicz, T., Nachtigall, T., & Smit, I. (2025). Design in the Real World: Facilitating Collective Learning through Design. In Applied Design Research (pp. 290-308). CRC Press.
Notebook can also create infographics now, but this is not that good. The visual references would not pass my creative direction đ
In the latest NADR publication, we wrote about the potential role of AI-image generation in Civic Prototyping:
Scaffolds of Imagination: Partnering with AI-image generation in Civic Prototyping (Tomasz JaĆkiewicz, Iskander Smit, Peter van Waart, Manon Mostert van der Sar, Evin Wijninga)