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Ten rules for AI that lives in your street

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

Start hereCities of Things Foundation, Manifesto for designing with immersive AI (2026), shown at the workshop with the Wijkbot kit at Stadslab Eindhoven (G1), NRE site, part of MAD's Common Ground, powered by CLICKNL. Also: Bewoners-in-the-Loop by Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Studio Bits of Space. Dutch Design Week 2026 citiesofthings.nl

Research cited

  1. Cities of Things Manifest 2026 introductie NL rf (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl
  2. Boekje ESC DEF versie web2 (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net

Other sources

  1. Cities of Things, website citiesofthings.nl
  2. Cities of Things newsletter citiesofthings.substack.com
  3. Dutch Design Week programme: Bewoners-in-the-Loop: meebeslissen over AI in stad ddw.nl
  4. Dutch Design Week venue: Stadslab Eindhoven ddw.nl
  5. Luma event page: Workshop Designing with immersive AI, speculative design meets civic prototyping luma.com
  6. Cities of Things, about citiesofthings.nl
  7. Cities of Things newsletter, archive citiesofthings.substack.com
  8. Wijkbot (Hoodbot), make your own Wijkbot (in Dutch) hoodbot.net
  9. Cities of Things, the Wijkbot kit citiesofthings.nl
  10. GitHub, EFeru/hoverboard-firmware-hack-FOC (open-source hoverboard firmware) github.com
  11. Bewoners-in-the-loop, website (in Dutch) bewonersintheloop.nl
  12. DDW editorial feature (not press), 21 Oct 2026, "Who's watching?" ddw.nl
  13. bewonersintheloop.nl/js/content/pages/colofon.generated.js bewonersintheloop.nl
  14. bewonersintheloop.nl/js/content/pages/casussen.generated.js bewonersintheloop.nl
  15. Cities of things (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
  16. Designing with immersive ai (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl
  17. Maak kennis met wijkbot (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  18. Over de inzamelbot (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  19. Dutch design week (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  20. Wijkbot bij dutch design week (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  21. Wijkbot bij dutch design week 2 (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  22. Wijkbotkit modulair (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
  23. Wijkbot op makerfaire eindhoven (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A white flag printed with three stacked cubes and the words cities of things, pinned to a brown curtainPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
A round sign reading stads lab in colored letters, in a white frame on a chipboard wallPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
Iskander Smit of Cities of Things looks back at his slide, A rough timeline of generative AI, where the steps run from textual to agentic and end in physicalPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 4
A screen slide listing five clusters: legibility interplay, intelligence is humble, design honesty, support community, provide opennessPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 5
A talk slide titled Research, naming Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, TU Delft and Cities of Things, with paper covers and small photos of field testsPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 6
Seen from above: a white radio transmitter on a cardboard box, a bunch of heather in pink and green tissue paper, and jars and boxes on a plywood platformPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 7
On a brick square, a man in a white shirt holds a radio transmitter while a gray-haired man rides a plywood platform with a red seat and a box marked GIVE and TAKE. A woman in a green coat watches from beside parked bikesPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 8
A plywood robot platform with a red chair and a box marked GIVE and TAKE waits in a corridor, beside an UPSTAIRS arrow sign and a panel titled Bewoners-in-the-loop that a visitor is readingPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
DAF YA-126 radio truck (telex), army signals (Cavalerie museum, Amersfoort)Frame: Alf van Beem, CC0, croppedMuseum or journal record

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