Home - Sense; dwelling and the Internet of Things

29 november 2011: Home - Sense or ‘dwelling and the Internet of Things’
V2, the Institute for the Unstable Media
Eendrachtstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam
vrijdag 9 december 2011
09:00 – 18:00

On December 9, 2009, the first Council-conference was held in Brussels. A wide variety of researchers,
artists, IT-professionals, architects etc. gathered to discuss questions and answers concerning the Internet of
Things. Part of this debate was focused on sub-themes, one of those was ‘Home-Sense’: what are the
consequences, implications, questions for our home-environment in relation to the IoT?

On April 9th, the world-wide IoT-day, this discussion was continued in Rotterdam on a smaller scale: now,
2 years later, it is time to gather the developments and focus once again on the issues involved. This conference
intends to do that by bringing together a variety of professionals and researchers throughout the various
disciplines, present/discuss the current status and try to articulate elements that will contribute to the actual, still
developing issues of home vs. technology.

The morning session will handle the background, architecture, technology; after lunch the emphasis will
be on experience, privacy, spheres. A substantial amount of time will be reserved for discussion between lectures
and presentations; to question the speaker and to ensure the possibility for a debate with the visitors.

Architecture, infrastructure, technology:
• Rob van Kranenburg (Council): ‘IoT, a reactive and proactive approach’.
• Ben van Lier (Centric): ‘Connections, information and reality’.
• Tomasz Jaskiewicz (ONL/TUD): ‘Architectural ecosystems of people & things’
• Liam Bannon (Univ.Limerick): ‘Putting technology in its place’.


Environment, privacy, experience:
• Tijmen Wisman (VU): ‘The right to silence in the home’
• Remy van der Vlies (TNO): ‘Raising professional’s awareness of user’s needs’.
• Marcel Vroom (MVADV): ‘Domotics; the home as user interface’.


Selected students from Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts, Crosslab, will react on theme and subject.

Final program, registration & payment: > V2

Organisation: The Internet of Things, Hybrid Living en Designplatform Rotterdam

Moderator: Lucas Verweij (UdK Berlin)