Tessel van Leeuwen - portret door Jimena Gauna

Tessel van LeeuwenProject Manager

Tessel van Leeuwen is a project manager with Waag, where she mainly focuses on Commons Lab and Future Internet Lab projects.

Tessel followed the Reinwardt Academy and worked in other communication settings, like the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. In 2014-2015, she did the communication and production of the European project Apps for Europe. Tessel obtained her master's degree in Urban Management at the HvA in 2022.

Labs

Future Internet Lab

Current projects

Smart Citizens Lab

The Energy Transition in the Amsterdam Metropolis

How can the position of social initiative be strengthened so that they can produce 33% of electricity and heat demand in the Amsterdam metropolitan region by 2050?

Code of Conduct for the social economy

Working closely with the European Commission (Directorate General GROW), Waag Futurelab and the Commons Network are joining forces to develop a Code of Conduct together with individuals, organizations and agencies in the social economy. All with a shared goal to share, collect and build data management capacity within the ecosystem.

Platformcoöp Incubator

Together with the Commons Network, Waag is working on a Platform Co-op Accelerator programme that will connect and advance start-up initiatives that work with the commons. This way, we are encouraging a circular, local and fair economy.

Open HEM now!

Commissioned by the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland and Top Sector Energy, Waag is developing a Public Stack for home energy management systems: Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS).

Charging the Commons

Charging the Commons is a project exploring the design of digital platforms for resource communities.

Future Internet Lab

Evaluation NWA-route Big Data

Beleidsmakers, private ontwikkelaars en wetenschappers bespreken vragen over big data van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda.

Future Internet Lab

Living Lab Open Cultuurdata

Making cultural events easier to find with open-source technology. By NPO, Sound & Vision, PublicSpaces and Waag.

Energy Reference Architecture

In opdracht van Topsector Energie Digitalisering en de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) onderzoekt waag een referentiearchitectuur voor de Nederlandse energie infrastructuur.

Future Internet Lab

MicroMemberships

How innovative online revenue models can improve the independence of makers.

Future Internet Lab

Proof of Provenance

Tackling disinformation by guaranteeing the authenticity of messages? Waag is working on a way to do this through digital certificates.

Future Internet Lab

PublicSpaces

Waag is a co-initiator of the PublicSpaces Foundation, a coalition of now 70 public organisations working together on a digital ecosystem based on public values.

Contemporary Commoning

The research project Contemporary Commoning focuses on the ways the commons can contribute to new forms of (digital) public space and initiate different forms of urban development.

Atelier

Atelier is a five-year project funded by the European Commission that focuses on shaping energy-positive neighbourhoods. Residents, local stakeholders and companies will work together in these neighbourhoods to create a local energy system that generates energy sustainably.

Closed projects

Smart Citizens Lab

Public Civil Cooperation

In this project, Waag investigates new knowledge and process models, which support sustainable cooperation between citizens and governments.

Future Internet Lab

MicroDonor

Healthy internet isn't free. Waag is researching a method for micro-donation to open, fair and inclusive online tools and services.

Future Internet Lab

Hackathon de groene stad

In het project hackathon groene steden komen initiatieven bijeen die zich focussen op het vergroenen van steden. Waag organiseert vier groen-expedities en een hackathon.

Gaming for the Commons

Can serious games help us to reimagine our political and economic system? We aim to discover the potential of serious games to help us reclaim the urban commons.

Mobility Lab Bicycledatacommons

The Mobility Lab Bicycledatacommons explores the role of data commons in the usage of bicycle data.

Smart society cases

In this project we sketch a picture of the dilemmas that digitisation entails within public administration and the effect this has on society.

Chamber of Commons

The Chamber of Commons bolsters the interests of commons and commoners.

WeMakeThe.City

WeMakeThe.City is the festival that makes cities better.

DSI4EU

Digital Social Innovation in Europe (DSI4EU) supports digital social innovation networks in Europe.