Samenvatting

Our current smart society, where problems and frictions are smoothed out with smart, often invisi ble technology like AI and smart sensors, calls for designers who unravel and open the smart fabric.
Societies are not malleable, and moreover, a smooth society without rough edges is neither desirable
nor livable. In this paper we argue for designing friction to enhance a more nuanced debate of smart
cities in which conflicting values are better expressed. Based on our experiences with the Moral Design
Game, an adversarial design activity, we came to understand the value of creating tangible vessels to
highlight conflict and dipartite feelings surrounding smart cities.