I had a great time presenting at the Politics of AI symposium at Goldsmiths. Many thanks to Dan McQuillan, Fieke Jansen, Jo Lindsay Walton, and Pat Brody for inviting me and putting together such a thought-provoking program.

Excited to share my People's Compute research project ideas at the Politics of AI symposium at Goldsmiths, organized by @danmcquillan.bsky.social and others, this Thursday. www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...

One year into my postdoc at Delft University of Technology, not sure where the time went. Quite the year. 🧵

Human autonomy was the driving value behind my PhD research on contestable AI, and continues to be of great interest to me. So I thoroughly enjoyed attending the Design for Human Autonomy conference.

Had a wonderful time sharing my ideas on how to approach learning in a world that includes GenAI machines, from a design perspective, at LXDCON’25. A big thank you to Niels Floor and Shapers for the invitation. You can find my slides on my website here: contestable.ai/presentations/

As always, it was a great pleasure to present my contribution to the RIOT 2025 publication, the essay "Embodied AI and Collective Power: Designing Democratic Generative Things" at the ThingsCon Salon last Friday.

Our government may have fallen, but the cuts to education are still on the table. Off to strike we go, again, then. June 10, 12:00, Amsterdam Dam Square. Hope to see many of my colleagues and comrades there. www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...

I look forward to presenting on “Designing learning experiences in a post-ChatGPT world” at LXDCON’25 next week. lxd.org/lxdcon/

Highly recommended event coming up next week exploring alternative viewpoints on transparent AI that are more democratic. Includes talks by members of a transdisciplinary research consortium I am part of. www.linkedin.com/posts/cristi...

Blogged a brief bit on how I think about large language models these days. leapfrog.nl/blog/archive...

I will be at the ThingsCon RIOT unconference to explore the design of 'generative things' and discuss my essay titled "Embodied AI and Collective Power: Designing Democratic Generative Things". thingscon.org/events/upcom...

Finished the march by making lots of noise in the center of Delft. Downright therapeutic. Stop the cuts, people. Just stop all of them. #woinactie

TU Delft now marching into the city center. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Proper turnout at TU Delft to strike against the cuts. #woinactie

Hey ho, off to strike we go. Today it’s our turn at TU Delft to oppose the cuts to higher education. Hope to see many of my colleagues there. #woinactie

Solidarity with my colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Attending NWO ICT.OPEN today, presenting "Exploring DevOps Practices as Sites for AI Contestability" as part of the Human-Computer Interaction and Societal Impact in the Netherlands track. ictopen.nl/programme/hu...

Solidarity with my colleagues at Maastricht University on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Solidarity with my colleagues at Wageningen University & Research on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

The future of work? I think I know where that’s heading. (My meme craft is at dad joke levels. Apologies.)

Solidarity with my colleagues at Tilburg University on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Solidarity with my colleagues at Erasmus University Rotterdam on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Solidarity with my comrades at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of delivering a half-day lecture on designing responsible AI for TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering master students.

Solidarity with my comrades at University of Twente on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Well, it's decided, TU Delft is going on strike April 24. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Solidarity with my comrades at University of Groningen on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Ik was vandaag te gast bij Adviescollege Openbaarheid en Informatiehuishouding (ACOI) om te vertellen over mijn onderzoek naar betwistbare artificiële intelligentie. Zij doen belangrijk werk voor het waarborgen van onze democratie dus het was voor mij een hele eer.

Solidarity with my comrades at University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

I am lucky to have Sara Colombo and her brilliant Feminist Generative AI Lab 'gang' as my Knowledge and Intelligence Design colleagues. www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tu-d...

Solidarity with my comrades at Radboud University, HAN University of Applied Sciences and ArtEZ University of the Arts on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

This is today! See you in Delft, maybe? bsky.app/profile/kars...

Solidarity with my comrades at Utrecht University and University of Applied Sciences Utrecht on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Solidarity with my comrades at Leiden University on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie

Vanmiddag! bsky.app/profile/kars...

Next week, I will be part of a TU Delft AI panel discussion about inclusivity in artificial intelligence systems design. It's free and open to the public. Do join. www.tudelft.nl/en/events/20...

Volgende week donderdag ben ik op uitnodiging van Vasilis van Gemert te gast bij Communication and Multimedia Design Amsterdam op de Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences om over mijn onderzoek naar contestable AI te vertellen. gath.io/3fF6CiLOgbIS...

Had a lovely time presenting my work on contestable AI at data ethics consultancy The Green Land yesterday. The slides, as usual, are up on my website. It includes a final section with new material I am developing on design and the politics of AI infrastructure. contestable.ai/presentations/

Volgende week ben ik te gast bij The Green Land om te vertellen over hoe we AI-systemen ontwerpen voor maatschappelijke controle. Zin in. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-gr...

Wrote a short blog post about the workshop we ran at CSCW 2024 in November of last year about contestability in AI value chains. Includes a canvas made by Mireia Yurrita and me to help guide one of the group activities. leapfrog.nl/blog/archive...

Excited to learn that James Muldoon, whose 'Platform Socialism' is one of my favorite treatments of the platform economy, has a new book coming out on AI. doesnotcomputeai.substack.com/p/seven-thes...

Some notes on autonomy, design, and AI, sparked by a panel discussion we had some time ago at the Delft Design for Values Institute. leapfrog.nl/blog/archive...

Ideas I am playing around with for a new project. Realist political philosophy, imagination, design, and AI infrastructure. This might get messy.

The kind of book that seems precision engineered for me to click “buy” on.

Looking forward to presenting on contestable AI and constructive design research at the University of Utrecht's computational sociology group this Friday. Always interesting to bring my (somewhat heterodox?) research approach to adjacent fields.

The videos of this year's ThingsCon are up!

I had an excellent time delivering a two-hour lecture on qualitative design research to our Integrated Product Design master students at TU Delft today. My thanks to my colleague Himanshu for the invitation.

“Once more, with feeling!” Local actions against the cuts to higher education are happening nationwide this Wednesday. In Delft, we’ll meet at the Aula and march across the campus. They’re voting on the budget on Thursday. Let’s keep the pressure on. woinactie.blogspot.com/p/lokale-act...

The music platform that shall not be named tells me King Gizzard was my artist of the year. No surprises there—I basically finished writing my thesis while listening to Nonagon Infinity on repeat.