ThingsCon Salon - Generative Things

Interactive session based on reflections of futures thinkers and designers

ThingsCon is 10 years young! We are celebrating this with a special exhibition of the next decade of things made tangible. This exhibition will be part of TH/NGS 2024 held as always in December. To mark ten years of connected things we look at so-called Generative Things; what if the things we use are infused by the new default of our digital life with generative AI?

We invite all young designers to participate and share ideas. We will create an exhibition with the most interesting objects and provide a budget to make them into mockups of the "provotypes".

To kick off the design, we asked renowned international designers and future thinkers to reflect on the theme of Generative Things. At the Salon, during Dutch Design Week, we will present the visions and discuss together the future of things. Expect in this workshop an interactive form of building design fiction. The outcomes will be the design briefings for the participants in the challenge for designers.