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Case-based learning, with LEGO

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

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

The workCities of Things workshop, Stadslab Eindhoven (G1), Monday 19 October. Scenario: TU Delft Transport & Mobility Institute, Mobility Futures (2025). Cards: Near Future Laboratory. 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 build stands on a sheet of white paper on a workshop table: a figure under a white visor on a base of gray and white platesPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
A hand holds up a printed canvas whose heading reads Rotterdam 2050 is Mobility Patchwork; the picture below the heading is blurredPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
Two printed driver sheets on a table, headed Societal and Cultural Driver and Economic Driver, with named cards such as Holistic Wellness, Localism, Lifestream, Aging With Grace, Prout Economics and Everybody Creates; the card pictures are blurredPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 4
A hand holds a half-built LEGO figure with a white visor over a blank sheet on a workshop table, with loose gray LEGO plates beside it and printed cards at the edgePhoto: RN Collins
Slide 5
A workshop participant in a beanie lays out his table's work in front of a screen that reads Share Your Thing, 2 min each, in a room with a checkered carpetPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 6
A Cities of Things talk slide titled Future research for scenarios, showing the cover and pages of the Mobility Futures report the workshop scenario came fromPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
DAF B1500C533 busFrame: FaceMePLS from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, 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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