ThingsCon Salon #11; workshop dive deep in sensing

Sensors will be everywhere, also in your home: as part of smart devices and appliances, fixed to your home or brought in by yourself. Connected and smart will be the default.
This brings new opportunities for products and services, but also comes with new challenges. How to have the sensors work for you, and not for vendors of the appliances? Design choices play a big part here, and really understanding the sensors is both inspiring and necessary to make the best products.

In this Salon we dive deep in both understanding sensing and understanding the consequences for design. VPRO Medialab chose IoT (internet of things) in the home and its effects on media and our behaviour as their theme of research in 2018. As part of this research project, VPRO Medialab collaborates with ThingsCon Amsterdam and VanBerlo to work together on this Salon. ThingsCon Amsterdam is the Dutch chapter of Europe’s leading conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and Internet of Things. Also, we are happy to be guest at VanBerlo in Eindhoven, one of the leading product design agencies in the Netherlands.

The Salon consists of two parts: a workshop and a meetup. RSVP this meetup if you want to join the workshop. We have a separate meetup for the evening program: https://www.meetup.com/Thingscon-Salon/events/248636265/

16:00 – 18:00: Workshop
Starting at 16:00 we have a workshop that lets you dive into the depth of the sensors. You do not need to have deep technical knowledge, curiosity for the inner working for sensing products will be met.
During the workshop by the VanBerlo team, we will create concepts for intelligent systems in the kitchen that help improve our daily routines. You’ll then get to pitch your concept during the meetup event that will be held in the evening.

The workshop ends at 18:00. Dinner and drinks are provided by VPRO Medialab. Of course you are invited to attend the meetup as well!
There is room for 20 participants. Want to join this workshop? RSVP this meetup!

19:00 – 22:00: Meetup
Find more information here: https://www.meetup.com/Thingscon-Salon/events/248636265/