google maps
Sander van der Waal in EenVandaag over Google Maps
Since Google controls how routes are calculated and where location pins are placed, the company holds siginificant influence over local businesses, residential traffic, and traffic situations. In EenVandaag, we explain why this is a problem.
artificial intelligence
Exploring the role of AI in the cultural and creative sectors
We invite professionals working in the cultural and creative sectors to share their experiences, concerns, and reflections in a short survey.
Week of Participation
Waag Futurelab hosts special programme on digital inclusion
How can we make the digital world more accessible? Waag Futurelab and De Omslag are organising Participation Week from 6 to 9 October, which will focus on this question.
Local colors
Rediscovering Colors in the City
What if our plants interacted with birds, bees, and simultaneously contributed to something essential, like textiles? A conversation on natural dyes and local production with Cecilia Raspanti.
elections 2025
Our input for the election manifestos: four suggestions for policy on digitisation
Together with PublicSpaces and Commons Network, we are sending a letter to political parties with four text suggestions for their policies on digitisation in their election manifestos.
2025-09-03T00:00:00+02:002025-09-07T00:00:00+02:00
3
Sept
7
Sept
panic - yes or no?
Ars Electronica Festival 2025
2025-09-14T12:00:00+02:002025-09-14T20:30:00+02:00
14
Sept
12:00
20:30
public investment for public good
Good Money
2025-09-18T12:00:00+02:002025-09-28T17:00:00+02:00
18
Sept
28
Sept
celebrating 10 years of Waag's TextileLab
Chromatic Relations
2025-09-18T17:30:00+02:002025-09-18T20:00:00+02:00
18
Sept
17:30
20:00
celebrating 10 years of Waag's TextileLab
Festive opening Chromatic Relations
2025-10-01T19:00:00+02:002025-10-01T21:30:00+02:00
1
Oct
19:00
21:30
visible mending
Workshop: stitching a spectrum of care #1
2025-10-02T09:00:00+02:002025-10-02T18:00:00+02:00
2
Oct
09:00
18:00
save the date!
sold out
Kennis Maken: National Citizen Science Expo
2025-10-02T19:30:00+02:002025-10-02T21:30:00+02:00
2
Oct
19:30
21:30
on another planet
Waag Open: who owns space?
2025-10-06T10:00:00+02:002025-10-06T12:00:00+02:00
6
Oct
10:00
12:00
Week of Participation
Talk: Digital technology and the future of work
2025-10-08T19:00:00+02:002025-10-08T21:30:00+02:00
8
Oct
19:00
21:30
visible mending
Workshop: stitching a spectrum of care #2
2025-10-18T11:00:00+02:002025-10-26T18:00:00+01:00
18
Oct
26
Oct
Antisocial media
Dutch Design Week 2025: Connection Lost
2025-10-23T16:00:00+02:002025-10-23T17:00:00+02:00
23
Oct
16:00
17:00
Art-science for water quality
Opening: Vortex Harmonies
2025-11-06T19:30:00+01:002025-11-06T21:30:00+01:00
6
Nov
19:30
21:30
the (im)possibilities of social media
Waag Open: social socials
Mission
Waag Futurelab contributes to the research, design and development of a sustainable, just society
- By collectively researching emerging technology, and questioning underlying cultural assumptions;
- By experimenting with and designing alternatives on the basis of public values;
- By developing an open, fair and inclusive future together with civil society.
