Kars Alfrink 🟥
@kars.leapfrog.nl
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI. www.contestable.ai
Next week, I am speaking at Enterprise UX about designing AI-enabled work tools that promote autonomy. May contain references to Office Space and Luddism. Looking forward to it. www.enterpriseux.nl/program-2025...
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Next week, I am speaking at Enterprise UX about designing AI-enabled work tools that promote autonomy. May contain references to Office Space and Luddism. Looking forward to it. www.enterpriseux.nl/program-2025...
Unconference about the digital autonomy of Dutch public institutions is coming up this Friday in Amsterdam. www.meetup.com/code-for-nl/...
Digitale Autonomie Unconference 2025 - 2, Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 9:30 AM | Meetup
Er komt weer een Unconference in samenwerking met Code for NL! Net als in [2020](https://www.meetup.com/code-for-nl/events/268798380/?eventOrigin=group_calendar), [2023](ht
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September 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Unconference about the digital autonomy of Dutch public institutions is coming up this Friday in Amsterdam. www.meetup.com/code-for-nl/...
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.
September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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=...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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. 🧵
July 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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/
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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...
Kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs - 10 juni landelijke stakingsdag
Kom in actie tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Meld je nu aan!
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June 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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/
LXDCON - Annual learning experience design conference
Get ready for the 10th anniversary of the premier learning experience design event in the world. LXDCON'25 will be something special!
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June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
We are radically re-imagining how we design AI. Do you want to join us?… | Cristina Zaga 🟥
We are radically re-imagining how we design AI. Do you want to join us?
First JEDAI Network (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in AI) event dedicated to:
Radical Transparency in AI: Design...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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...
On how to think about large language models - Leapfroglog
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May 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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...
RIOT 2025 – unconference & Salon – ThingsCon
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May 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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
April 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
TU Delft now marching into the city center. Stop the cuts. #woinactie
Proper turnout at TU Delft to strike against the cuts. #woinactie
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
April 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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...
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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
April 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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
April 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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.)
April 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
April 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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
April 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Solidarity with my comrades at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on strike today. Stop the cuts. #woinactie