The forthcoming Handbook of Platform Urbanism, edited by Annelien Smets and Pieter Ballon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), will be published by Edward Elgar in December 2025.

Serendipity has become a topical concern across design, research, and public discourse, but the term often conceals more than it reveals. In this article, I provide an overview of our research on how to unpack the concept and explore what it means to intentionally design for, enable, and evaluate serendipity in digital systems.

Op donderdag 18 april 2024 vindt in Mechelen Facts to Act plaats, georganiseerd door het Hannah Arendt Instituut.

imec Data Tech fosters Urban Cycling Exploration How can data spaces enhance the Serendipitous Cycling Route Planner? The intersection of...

This brAInfood is a collaboration with the Knowledge Centre Data & Society and was published earlier on their website. On social media,...

How will we design for serendipity and share our learnings?

The first Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Recommender Systems is taking place in Antwerp on 14 and 15 December, 2023.

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The First Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize)

How can data discovery fuel our serendipity engine?