AI keeping an eye on you, a house that knows everything about you and access to digital services blocked at the touch of a button. At DDW26, discover projects that make you rethink technology, privacy and the digital world we live in every day.
On Strijp-S, Building SFF (Bosch) focuses on current developments in digital design and AI. Projects here explore how digital technology and artificial intelligence are changing our lives and design practice.
With transparent.citizen, Mees Boeijen takes the argument ‘if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’ very literally. For a week, he lives as a transparent citizen: his home AI tracks his movements, vital signs, finances, music and food, turning it all into an ongoing biography. A printer reveals everything live, and anyone reading it is watched too. How much is your privacy worth?
In Chadding / Ask Anything, Julia Janssen explores our relationship with AI systems that present themselves as helpful conversation partners. As we increasingly live within the limits of the algorithm, what does it still mean to be human?
Our digital dependence comes under scrutiny too. What if the US blocked Dutch organisations’ access to digital services at the touch of a button? In Are we autonomous yet?, Studio Falkland joins visitors in mapping how dependent the Netherlands is on digital services from outside Europe.
CODE 2026: Terms of Intimacy reveals how personal technology and large-scale power structures are becoming increasingly intertwined.
And who decides how technology is used in our cities? In Bewoners-in-the-Loop, by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Studio Bits of Space, discover how residents can help shape decisions about number plate scanning cars, sensors and AI in public spaces.
Finally, dive into the world of quantum physics with Quantum Safari at Next Nature Museum. Six interactive installations introduce you to quantum technology and invite you to discover what it could mean for our future.
From AI to quantum technology: at DDW26, explore new technology and discover how it affects us.
