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Dear visitor, welcome to this compact website dedicated to the research activities under the label Cities of Things. As described in the About-page we (Elisa Giaccardi and myself) started shaping this research program at TU Delft Connected Everyday Lab in early 2017, at that moment still as PACT (Partnership in Cities of Things). The post-doc […]
Cities of Things started in 2018 as a research initiative and design lab at Delft University of Technology, initiated by professor Elisa Giaccardi and visiting professor Iskander Smit, and has grown into a foundation with an active research community across design, technology, and urban studies. Key programs and collaborations include the Wijkbots program with Rotterdam […]
The new design possibilities of immersive AI are real, but so are the risks. Intelligence that enters the room can enrich experience or silently erode agency. It can strengthen communities or fragment them. The difference is in the design. The 2026 Manifesto for Immersive AI provides ten considerations for designing responsibly and effectively in this […]
In my piece for RIOT 2025 (June 2025), I argued that generative and agentic AI push us into something qualitatively different: intelligence no longer as an app, but as an atmosphere—infused into objects, services, and environments until the fabric of everyday life becomes conversational. The shift is not only from responsive tools to initiating systems, […]
Following the method of last Month, I again asked the AI-intern (ChatGPT-4) to reflect on the different weekly thoughts at Target is New, through the lense of the Cities of Things Manifesto. I continued the conversation a bit with my own feelings about last Month, as an important moment with two long-expected AI-enhanced devices finding […]
New AI-endeavours build communities of self-improving multilateral augmented intelligence, as flocks of multi-core AIs improve themselves in continuous self-reflection. (This post was sent as a newsletter on 31th July via Cities of Things Substack) Having AI as co-performers with humans has been the topic more than once, referring to the concept defined back in 2018. In the latest […]
We are entering an era in which artificial intelligence leaves the screen and enters the room. It inhabits buildings, infrastructure, public spaces, and the objects we live with. Unlike digital AI, which we visit, physical AI is something we live inside. Unlike embodied AI, which occupies a body, physical AI can be distributed across entire […]
Thanks for subscribing. In this monthly newsletter I dive deeper in one of the articles that relate to Cities of Things that I collected in my weekly updates of last month. This month I explore the relations of DAOs and Cities of things.Check also the website Cities of Things to be update on latest research and other […]
Last couple of months 8 teams of bachelor students of IDE have been working on a design for things that predict in the cities of things. The Delft Design Lab Cities of Things commissioned the assignment to explore design experiences with the use of predictive knowledge as design material. The 8 teams did a great […]