Design the Future schedule - Under construction

Improvising Wearables: Using theatre to explore the future of interactive clothing and wearable technology

Get your day off to an inspiring start by listening to Parya Pasha Zadeh Monajjemi over breakfast.

She is a Geoinformatics engineer specialized in spatial data management and GIS analysis with a keen interest in spatio-temporal analysis of movement data for understanding human behavior in the context of modern cities.

Play some beach volleyball and dance to the music of Odem Ska and Reggae Band!

Have a breakfast first.

Get your day off to an inspiring start by listening to Cristina Zaga over breakfast. She is a reasearcher in the research group Research Group Human Media Interaction.  Her  research revolves around child-robot cooperative (pro-social) interactions during collaborative games/tasks. 

Get your day off to an inspiring start by listening to Llewelyn van Zyl over breakfast. He is an industrial psychologist. He has a passion for online positive psychological interventions. Van Zyl is on top of his profession, working as a specialist and consultant, and is currently serving as president of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA).

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

Enjoy the night in the city listening to some musical entertainment.

We'll watch a cool movie together!

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you can join a dancing workshop.

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

The registration point will be in the biggest tent. Please register as soon as you arrive. If you arrive earlier or later please contact us via curious@utwente.nl 

Explore the campus with your new friends.

Want to do some sports and see some cool locations on campus? During this activity you'll do both!

Want to do some sports and see some cool locations on campus? During this activity you'll do both!

Prof.dr. H. (Ed) Brinksma, our former university dean, will kick-off the first inspiration speach @CuriousU!

Have fun and enjoy our evening programme while playing a lean simulation game.

Don't want to do some sports, but you do want to see some cool locations on campus? During this activity you'll walk around campus with a tourguide.

Don't want to do some sports, but you do want to see some cool locations on campus? During this activity you'll walk around campus with a tourguide.

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

Dr. Ramirez-Marquez has been a researcher all his life with an interest in developing computational techniques to solve a variety of problems. His research efforts are currently focused on the reliability analysis and optimization of complex systems, the development of mathematical models for sensor networks operational effectiveness, the computational analysis of resilience and, the development of evolutionary optimization algorithms. He will give a talk about future trends in smart city research.

During theis evening you can try to get out of an escape room. Next to this we will also have a silent disco. Do not forget to bring your headphones :)

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you can do a blind tasting and eat some nitrogen ice cream. There will also be piñata's and some sticks to smash them!

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

Bram Nauta is a professor in Electrical Engineering at the UT and he can tell you everything about chips and circuits. He invented the Nauta Circuit. This invention came to his mind while he was taking a swim. He quickly went out of the pool and asked for pen and paper. Nauta will talk about his invention.

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you can be a child again and hit each other with water pistols!

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you'll get introduced to the courses that are being teached at the University of Twente.

Lee Vinsel is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He studied Philosophy and History of Technology. He will give a talk about maintenance and innovation in our current society. Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more.

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

Baby blue is returning to CuriousU! Last year it was a big succes.

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you'll do some typical Dutch games.

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

This is your day off. You can e.g. do a city trip to Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Münster (Germany) or Osnabrück (Germany). Have fun!

We will host a cool pubquiz.

This night we'll close off CuriousU 2017 with everyone and you'll receive your certificate.

After the first course sessions of the day you’ll then join the other festival-goers for a themed lunch in an informal, interactive setting.

During this lunch you can have a tour across all the labs on campus.

This hour is 100% free time: relax or use our sport facilities :-)

The last day. Check out (i.e. returning the keys) and saying goodbye to all your new friends. By returning your key you will get back your deposit for the log cabin or student dorm.

The ethical and political issues related to designing for technology and robots

Improvising Wearables: Using theatre to explore the future of interactive clothing and wearable technology

• An introduction to adaptive music using examples of my own work, and a bit of hands-on experience with FMOD, a program which makes the implementation of adaptive music both possible and easy to understand.
• Creating a specific set of simple sound effects using an online tool, to understand the process of designing sounds for a specified goal (as opposed to experimenting or creating sound just for fun)
• Implementing and testing the newly made sounds, to experience the difference between designing and actual use of the sounds inside a game.

Bring along your flip-flops, because you'll have an amazing barbecue this evening.

Every night we serve you a fantastic dinner.

Eat pizza and meet up with your fellow students!

Have a breakfast first.

Every night we serve you a fantastic dinner.

A project in collaboration with the Health and Happiness track

Introducing the grounds and perspective for designing for societal challenges with a design-driven approach by involving stakeholders in the design process.

Every night we serve you a fantastic dinner.

Introduction to the course

The concepts and strategies for behavior change

Every night we serve you a fantastic dinner.

Hands-on design session for designing robot behavior

A project in collaboration with the Health and Happiness track

The topics and concepts for designing for future of shared riding

A project in collaboration with the Health and Happiness track

The topics and concepts for designing for future of shared riding

Hands on experience on 3D printing by conveying the working principles

We go out for dinner at the city: Happy Italy

A project in collaboration with the Health and Happiness track

Every night we serve you a fantastic dinner.