Two years ago, in an economically underprivileged neighbourhood, designers and researchers collaborated with residents to investigate how local community challenges could be supported by initially hypothetical autonomous urban robots that later became known as “hoodbots” (Jaskiewicz & Smit, 2024). The …

Digital services are becoming the default way to access public information, pursue an education, get healthcare, and engage in civic life. Yet for millions of people, these services remain frustrating to use or completely inaccessible. Legal frameworks such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and …

How do citizens, designers, policymakers, and local entrepreneurs actually work together in ways that are inclusive, sustainable, and effective? Collaboration in urban innovation is often treated as a matter of method or structure, but what happens when timelines clash, trust falters, or understanding …

Living Labs are ‘open innovation ecosystems’, offering unique opportunities for conducting scientific experiments ‘in the wild’. Yet, Living Labs also support the generation of other, informal, types of knowledge: often tacit and difficult to capture and share, acquired outside of rigorous academic research …

Civic prototyping is een proces van experimenteren met creatieve oplossingen om de wereld om ons heen te verbeteren. Dit omvat samenwerkingen tussen mensen in de stad om te betwisten, hacken en innoveren met technologie op je eigen voorwaarden. Dit betekent ook dat technologie creatief kan worden ingezet …

The term Civic Prototyping is a shorthand for making creative prototyping accessible to anyone who tries to improve the world around them. This means contesting, hacking and innovating with technology on your own terms. This also means creatively engaging technology as a tool for supporting “democracy …

My recently started Civic Prototyping research group aims to develop new tools and methods enabling urban residents to exploratively research and develop applications of new technologies. This allows them to improve their everyday lives by taking their own initiative in creating valuable services, products, …

Het doel van mijn recent gestarte lectoraat Civic Prototyping is om nieuwe tools en methoden te ontwikkelen om inwoners in de stad in staat te stellen om zelf nieuwe toepassingen van technologieën exploratief te onderzoeken en te ontwikkelen. Daarmee kunnen zij op eigen initiatief waardevolle diensten, …