When did your doorbell become political?
On February 26, we’re hosting The Politics of Doorbells at TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering in collaboration with the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities
With more than a million smart doorbells now installed in Dutch streets, everyday surveillance has quietly become part of domestic life. But these devices don’t just record footage. They reshape behaviour, redistribute power, and blur the boundaries between private homes and public space.
In this interdisciplinary workshop, we will:
• unpack the watcher/watched dynamic
• explore how “foot-in-the-door” technologies expand over time
• surface moments of friction between neighbours, police, platforms and citizens
• and experiment with what forms of agency and action might be possible
Grateful to be organising this together with Laurens Kolks and Arthur De Jaeger as part of the Start Making Sense project.
🗓 26 February
⏰ 14:00–16:00
📍 TU Delft | IDE
Students from industrial design and the social sciences are warmly invited to join.
Send an email to one of the following addresses to sign up for the event:
Email Arthur De Jaeger: dejaeger@essb.eur.nl
Email Laurens Kolks: l.a.g.kolks@tudelft.nl