The annual conference TH/NGS 2025 will take place in Amsterdam again, this year at CRCL PARK at the Marineterrein. The conference has been organized by ThingsCon since 2014, a global initiative to explore and promote the development of fair, responsible, and human-centric technologies for the IoT and beyond.
This year's theme is RESIZE<REMIX<REGEN. We invite makers, designers, and thinkers to reimagine the creation of things through deliberate restraint, mindful reuse, and regenerative practice.
Against the backdrop of global tech monopolies and a culture of disruption, the conference explores alternative pathways: scaling technology toward the local and tangible; privileging repair, community-driven making, and the remixing of existing materials and knowledge. Beyond sustainability, TH/NGS 2025 examines how technologies and artefacts might actively contribute to regeneration—restoring rather than depleting.
Participants can expect workshops, talks, and demonstrations that merge critical reflection with hands-on creativity.
Keynotes and talks:
- Ling Tan & Usman Haque (HaqueTan)
- Matt Jones (Miro)
- Simone Mora (MIT)
More to be announced
Workshops/sessions:
- Someone is at your front door — Roos Groothuizen (Artist/designer)
- Invisible Debris: Workshop Explore physical manifestations of our digital waste — Martijn van Loon (Studio Frontier)
- Mud to Models: Regenerative Futures for Community AI — Fieke Jansen (UvA), SunjooLee (artist), Kars Alfrink (TU Delft)
- Making an AI chair; “benchmarking” different AI models — following the instructions of James Bridle
- Politics of Design — Sen Lin
- Arcane Design: Designing Down-to-Earth artefacts through/with/for magic — Maja Riemann, Jeff Love, Iohanna Nicenboim (TU Delft)
- Sousveillance - civic surveillance of surveillance cameras — Tom van Arman (Tapp), Mike de Kreek, Tessa Steenkamp (HvA)
- Anticipatory Design: Bringing the power of foresight into everyday practice — Susan LK Gorbet, Matt Gorbet (Gorbet Design)
- Exploring low-cost environmental sensing with the Octopus platform — Simone Mora, Ase Hatveit (MIT)
- Prototyping intelligence — Harm van Vugt (HvA)
More to be announced
Exhibition
Featuring work from students and researchers at:
TU Delft Interactive Environments Minor, HvA Master Digital Design, HvA AMFI Fashion Technology, AMS Institute's MSc MADE, FlexCitizens, Mud Batteries, MIT Biodiversity Sensing Project, AI Chairs by James Bridle, and additional contributors to be announced.
About ThingsCon
ThingsCon is a global initiative to explore and promote the development of fair, responsible, and human-centric technologies for the IoT and beyond. The initiative organizes events and creates resources and tools for a diverse community of practitioners to promote ethical, considerate, responsible, and human-centric practices across IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technology with a human impact.
Partners for the 2025 edition include AMS Institute, CLICKNL, HvA, TU Delft, Cities of Things, and others.
Tickets
Tickets are available via the TH/NGS 2025 event page. Student tickets are offered at a discounted rate.
Get your ticket: thingscon.org/events/things-2025#tickets
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Contact
For questions regarding the event, please contact: iskander@thingscon.org
