On May 20, 2026, the Grote Zaal at Muntstraat 2A (Utrecht University) hosted the TiM Seminar Session “Griefbots in Research and on the Stage,” led by Ulrike Quade, Sorcha Ní Bhraonáin, and Evelyn Wan. Maaike Bleeker, leader of D4D project, organized the event together with Laura Karreman, who served as moderator. The event was divided…

On Monday 11 May 2026, Dramaturgy for Devices (D4D) organised a workshop in Delft at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), called “Countertechnique for Engineers.” The workshop served as an introduction to Countertechnique, aiming to discover inspiration and practical methodologies for integrating the technique into human-robot interaction (HRI). This seminar emerged from the Dance…

On December 9th, 2025, the kick-off of Daniël van Klaveren’s work-in-progress Robot Opera (provisional title) took place at Theater Sonnevanck in Enschede. Drawing scenographic inspiration from Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel The Electric State, the play is set in a junkyard inhabited by abandoned household objects. Among the devices scattered on stage—including a vacuum cleaner and…

We were thrilled that Prof. John McCormick (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne), was willing to give a lecture on his research, while he was visiting the Netherlands on 11 May John McCormick is a technology- based artist and researcher with a major interest in human movement. John has collaborated on works worldwide, including at peak festivals ISEA,…

How can the knowledge embodied in Anouk van Dijk’s Countertechnique help humans and robots to share the same space without collisions?We would like to invite you to the workshop Countertechnique for Engineers on Monday 11 May, where we will explore this together with Anouk van Dijk (dancer, choreographer and founder of the Countertechnique), Wilbert Tabone…

How will we live together with robots? During the Highlight Symposium ‘Robotic Relations’ on 13 February 2026, Maaike Bleeker, Ulrike Quade and Marco Rozendaal facilitated two sessions. Through talks, panels, and interactive installations, they explored whether robots can become extensions of human creativity, how we might understand robots as more-than-tools, and what happens when we

“How will you miss me when I’m gone?” What remains of a person after death? And what happens when technology becomes a means to fill that void? In Roman & ELIZA, Ulrike Quade Company explores technology as a tool for grief, how artificial intelligence feeds our profound desire for human connection. The performance is inspired…

On Friday 6 February, Dramaturgy for Devices and Robotstories | Expanding Narratives will be organizing a collaborative exploration of Prompts & Theater. With the advent of LLMs, the concept of “prompt” has entered the HRI vocabulary. However, in the theater domain, formulas and systems resembling what a prompt might be for AI have been in

How will we live together with robots? At the Robotic Relations symposium, researchers, artists, makers, and audiences come together in conversation, to talk about… …how robots become an extension of human creativity;…if we consider robots as living beings;…and what happens when we encounter robots in physical space.  Traditionally, technology was seen as an object, a…

On 26th and 27th September 2024, Amy Winter and her collaborators at TU/e’s Material Aesthetics Lab, Maaike Bleeker and Marco Rozendaal organised a workshop that delved into the potential of soft robotic technologies to animate expressive forms, creating novel interactions between humans and systems. Results of the workshop were presented at the Dutch Design Week…