Innovation
KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
Creative Tech New York 2025 – October 15
On October 15, creative technologists, innovators, and creative professionals will convene in New York to connect with likeminded professionals, all with the shared goal of understanding the future of creative technology.
File Festival 2025 – Synthetika
FILE returns for a another year, this time curated by Clarissa Vidotto, Paula Perisinotto and Ricardo Barreto exploring topics of synthetic technologies, algorithms and immersive realities as new aesthetic experiences.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.
Aperture – Rethinking digital wellbeing with intelligent interfaces
Aperture is an experimental concept that blends AI, physical design, and digital wellbeing to encourage more mindful tech use—not by adding new devices, but by reimagining the ones we already have.
Invention and Innovation – Vaclav Smil
Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised, but also at those that turned disastrous.
Technological Accidents, Accidental Technologies
In this publication we inquire into a technology of accidents, but also into the forms of power and authority that accidents materialize. What are the specific accidents of – call them what you wish: artificial intelligence, machine learning, enha...
Déguster l’augmenté – Adding new dimensions to food
'Déguster l’augmenté' is a collaborative project by Erika Marthins with ECAL (Bachelor Media & Interaction Design) that questions if food could be augmented and technology provide a new dimension to how we experience a meal.
High-Speed Horizons – Counterfactual history of supersonic flight
Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through pr...
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming – Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas.
KIKK Festival is back to explore the future through creativity & technology
For the third time, KIKK Festival will take over Namur (Belgium) to showcase the latest movers and shakers in the worlds of digital art and design. KIKK brings together the world’s most talented creative coders, innovators, designers, artists and ...
Red Never Follows – ‘Breeding Innovation’
For its twentieth anniversary HUGO now celebrates the adventurous and unpredictable path creativity takes. In collaboration with a unique selection of twenty international leading creators and inspiring inventors, HUGO showcases this spirit of not...
push.conference is back for a unique blend of innovative interaction and user experience!
For the second time, Munich will be all about the combination of interface design and innovative experiences. push.conference unites interaction designers, creative coders and UX professionals to shape the future of our field.
