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How a design-fiction workshop works

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

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The workCities of Things design and prototyping workshop, Stadslab Eindhoven (G1), NRE site, Monday 19 October, part of Common Ground. Scenario: TU Delft Transport & Mobility Institute, Mobility Futures (2025). Cards: Near Future Laboratory, The Work Kit of Design Fiction. Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nl

Research cited

  1. TU Delft Transport & Mobility Institute, Mobility Futures: Four scenarios for the Dutch mobility system in 2050 (2025, PDF) filelist.tudelft.nl
  2. Cities of Things Manifest 2026 introductie NL rf (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl

Other sources

  1. Cities of Things, website citiesofthings.nl
  2. Near Future Laboratory, The Work Kit of Design Fiction nearfuturelaboratory.com
  3. TU Delft, Delta: Mobility is a matter of choice (23 Jan 2025), on the Mobility Futures scenarios for the Dutch mobility system in 2050 delta.tudelft.nl
  4. Luma event page: Workshop Designing with immersive AI, speculative design meets civic prototyping luma.com
  5. Cities of Things, about citiesofthings.nl
  6. Cities of Things, manifesto citiesofthings.nl
  7. Cities of Things newsletter, archive citiesofthings.substack.com
  8. Cities of things (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
  9. Designing with immersive ai (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A small LEGO figure holding a white bar and a green brick stands on a printed workshop canvas, beside the labels CORE CAPABILITIES and ACTION and yellow sticky notesPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
A printed canvas heading reads 2050 is Mobility Patchwork, with tags for market-fragmented, unequal and fossil-fuel dependent, beside a tray of white LEGO bricks on a workshop table; the picture below the heading is blurredPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
The Mobility Futures 2x2 on Smit's screen: Mobility Patchwork, freedom meets friction, sits where market competition drives change and society is cautious about new technologyPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 4
A white card box lying on its side on a table, lettered The Work Kit of Design Fiction, a construction kit for imagining material cultural artifacts, by Near Future LaboratoryPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 5
Seen from above, a hand sets a small LEGO figure with a white visor bar on a blank workshop canvas, next to loose gray bricks and a sticky note with a drawing of glassesPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 6
Sticky notes on a workshop canvas: a pink note reads Happy Glasses, a yellow note reads wearable device, and another shows a pen drawing of a pair of glassesPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 7
A man in a navy T-shirt and jeans, seen from the chest down, holds a white radio controller over a robot made of taped cardboard boxes on a wheeled plywood base, on a patchwork carpetPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
DAF 600 (right-hand drive, South Africa)Frame: Alf van Beem, CC0, croppedMuseum or journal record
Quotes and video
RN's phone photos and video behind this postRN's own footage, 19 Oct 2026, Stadslab Eindhoven and the NRE site, Eindhoven

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