About Dries and IskanderDries De Roeck has a background in industrial design and has been switching between the academic research and design practitioner hats ever since. He is a designer and researcher, with a strong interest in how technology

Designing "post human-centered" Interfaces with Maximilian Brandl and Philipp Kaltofen

Jan 15th, 2021 13m 9s

About Maximilian and PhilippMaximilian Brandl is an interactive media designer and freelance design/creative technologist. Inspired by Clarke’s third law, he loves to shape the future by designing and building magical interactions and prototype

How to design meaningful voice interactions? With Felipe Pierantoni

Jan 8th, 2021 18m 32s

How to design meaningful voice interactions? With Felipe Pierantoni. As his thesis project, Felipe developed a toolkit with 45 practical guidelines to support designers in creating voice experiences that foster well-being. About FelipeFelipe Pi

What to make of a year of crisis? With Simon Höher

Jan 1st, 2021 19m 50s

Simon Höher heads the Hybrid City Lab, and also co-founded ThingsCon. In this episode, we discussed what systems design can learn from this year of global crisis.About Simon HöherSimon Höher heads the Hybrid City Lab, the urban & public design

What’s the Next Good Thing? With Gabriele Zipf and Antja Karoli

Dec 25th, 2020 17m 8s

At Futurium, Gabriele Zipf and Antja Karoli help visitors engage with building blocks of various potential futures. In our conversation they share how this works in practice and how this helps explore desirable futures.About our guestsGabriele

Must All Things Pass? Designing for the Afterlife of Things with Michael Stead and Paul Coulton

Dec 18th, 2020 24m 40s

Together with Adrian Gradinar, Michael Stead and Paul Coulton of Imagination Lancaster contributed a piece titled "Must All Things Pass? Designing for the Afterlife of (Internet of) Things” to ThingsCon's RIOT Report 2020. In a speculative desi

Is Doing Good a Design Impossibility? With Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Dec 11th, 2020 18m 53s

About Alexandra:Alexandra is an author, consultant, public speaker, entrepreneur and designer living in London. She wrote ‘Smarter Homes: how technology will change your home life’ (Apress, 2018) and her new book ‘Creating a Culture of Innovati

Regeneration with Elise Marcus

Dec 4th, 2020 14m 49s

S01E02: Our guest today is Elise Marcus. In our conversation, Elise tells us how and why we might move from circular design, which aims at having a neutral impact on the environment, towards regenerative design that focuses on leaving the envir

Greening the Web with Michelle Thorne

Nov 27th, 2020 23m 1s

S01E01: Our guest today is Michelle Thorne, senior program manager at Mozilla Foundation, co-publisher of Branch, an online magazine about the sustainable internet, and a ThingsCon Fellow. The internet as it is today is a massive contributor to

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Welcome to ThingsCon Stories!

Nov 17th, 2020 11m 4s

Fun fact: In German, a pilot episode is called Nullnummer.This pilot is short and sweet. You can learn more about ThingsCon at https://thingscon.org/You can follow us on Twitter, too:ThingsCon: https://twitter.com/thingsconAndrea Krajewski: htt

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