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Research
Creative Care Lab of Waag Society empowers the healthcare field with knowledge about the creative and innovative use of modern media and ICT. The Creative Care Lab focuses on design issues for care. 

Creative Learning Lab is a research and development laboratory that wants to stay in close connection with the perception of young people and the wishes of teachers.

The Future Internet Lab examines the impact of technological developments and the development of the Internet on society, in the broadest possible sense. We believe that access to information is (in)valuable and that everybody should be able to access and control their own information.

The mission of the Open Design Lab of Waag Society is to empower people to make and understand products and processes, for more transparency.

The Urban Reality Lab researches how (social, sensor and mobile) network infrastructures and mobile devices can contribute to new ways in which we move through the city.

The Open Wetlab focuses on life sciences and the design and ethics of life. We want to involve the industry, artists and designers, but also the political forces and the public, hands-on in the shaping of biotechnology, as well as in what biotechnology creates.
Academy
- Masterclasses & workshops
- Open Design Minor
Waag Academy is a unique training program that consists of short and long courses that combine content with the power of surprise, imagination and connection.

With the minor Open Design, Waag Society, Creative Commons Netherlands and WdKA introduce a new design platform for art and design education.
Events
Services
Waag Society develops technology, products and services based on the real needs of end users: both on a customized and a mass production level. In order to come to surprising and innovative results, we involve a large network of researchers, creators, artists and thinkers.

We have a number of educational and cultural services to offer. To inspire and to share the knowledge about the creative use of new technology in education are the core elements of these services for the Dutch education. We always tailor our services to the wishes and needs of education and heritage.

Fablab Amsterdam is located at the Waag in Amsterdam. Fablab Amsterdam is a fully equipped digital fabrication workshop which gives you the opportunity to develop and make prototypes for new product ideas. Alongside the equipment, the Fablab staff will help you by bringing expertise in from cad drawings to 3D modelling to fabrication principles to product.

Open Data can, if properly used, contribute to transparency, efficiency and innovation in government and industry. Waag Society is an experienced pioneer in this field and can help you to implement Open Data in your organization. From workshops for inspiration to Data Hunts, implementing technical solutions or organizing apps competitions.

In the centre of Nieuwmarkt square, in the historic heart of Amsterdam, stands De Waag, one of Amsterdam's oldest and most notable monuments. This 15th-century city gate is now a unique and inspiring events location. Waag Society, an institute for art, science and technology, is housed in The Waag and makes several spaces on the upper floors available for hire.
Products

Open Design Lab

The mission of Waag Society’s Open Design Lab is to empower people to make and understand products and processes, for more transparency. We develop tools to access knowledge and we open up the means of production, for better distribution. And we create community platforms for sharing, for improved collaboration.

The world around is changing. Imagine the principles of the internet (social, open and distributed) determining design and production processes. It is already happening. To make open design possible, not only online community platforms and open access to technology are necessary, but also open licenses that allow guaranteed sharing of knowledge and ideas.

Open Design will change the roles and responsibilities of the designer & user, it will change industrialization processes and create new business opportunities. Design will not remain exclusive. Waag Society, in collaboration with Creative Commons Netherlands, Premsela and the Dutch Fablabs, has established the Open Design programme, in which we organize activities aimed at generating interest in open design, develop tools and set up license systems to research and facilitate open design.

One of the spin-offs from this collaboration is the Open Design Contest. We collaborated to publish the first publication on Open Design called 'Open Design Now. Why design cannot remain exclusive'. Other initiative were FaiPhone and the Instructables Restaurant.

Open Design Lab is made possible by a subsidy from the Creative Industries Fund NL.

Congo's Tin Idea

Proposed programme by Dutch diplomat aims to end the violence that 'conflict minerals' have caused in South Kivu.

Enough Project 2012

Blender to include more support for 3D printing

The next release of Blender software ill include more support for 3D printing.

FairPhone elected Best Practice

This year, 13 projects have been elected Best Practice, the best examples of e-culture from The Netherlands, and one of them is FairPhone.

Waag Society 2011

3D printing around the corner

The network of 3D Hubs has expanded to the city of Amsterdam. People who own a 3D printer can join the network to let others use their printers to print objects.

3D Hubs 2013

FairPhone passes 10.000 subscribers mark

On 9 April 2013, FairPhone reached the first 10.000 subscribers for the first batch of FairPhones coming later this year.

Waag Society 2013

Projects overview

Contact

Frank Kresin is Research Director at Waag Society and responsible for the research programme.

020-5579825

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Fablab Amsterdam

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