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Bente ZwankhuizenProjectmanager

Bente Zwankhuizen is a project manager at Waag Futurelab. She focuses on projects within the Code research group.

Previously, Bente worked at cultural centre De Balie and as a producer in the cultural sector. She holds an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree from University College Utrecht and a master's degree in International Relations in Historical Perspective from Utrecht University.

Labs

Current projects

Mensen staan tussen zonnepanelen.
Commons Lab

MEENT

Waag supports energy communities in setting up their own energy data commons in the project MEENT.
Amsterdam waters aerial view
Urban Ecology Lab

A broader view on knowledge (STOWA)

Waag Futurelab is working with STOWA to create the broader knowledge base that is needed to achieve a resilient water system.
Man houdt een scherm voor zijn hoofd, waarop zijn hoofd wordt getoond maar dan met kleurige digitale vlakken op de plek van zijn gezicht.
Future Internet Lab

Algo-Rights

In het project Algo-Rights ontwikkelt Waag Futurelab een interactieve informatiedienst die burgers helpt hun data- en algoritmische rechten uit te oefenen en overheden ondersteunt bij het publiceren van relevante, begrijpelijke informatie.
Vrouw helpt bezoekers vanachter een balie en wijst op laptopscherm
Commons Lab

Local Connections

This project makes the supply for (digital) questions accessible and visible, so that everyone gets appropriate help that is needed. This way we prevent people from getting stuck in the digital world.
diamant world header
Future Internet Lab

Algo-Resist

In the Algo-Resist project, Waag organises workshops to help civil servants deal with technology-driven policies that they find problematic. How do you recognise problematic technology policies when you are in the middle of them? And what can you do about policies that are unacceptable?
Visualization of an algorithm
Future Internet Lab

Algo-Lit

Within the AlgoLit project, Waag Futurelab co-creates methods with digital inclusion specialists that professionals and citizens can use to inquire into algorithmic decision-making processes.
Aardbei_foto JL Dixon
Commons Lab

Trouble with Labour

With the ‘Trouble with Labour’ project, Waag Futurelab is shaping a future vision for greenhouse horticulture together with stakeholders.
twee personen zitten achter een laptop
Commons Lab

Digit-Able

Digit-Able aims to strengthen the digital capabilities and skills of social enterprises
Lachende vrouw houdt Fairphone voor haar rechteroog
Future Internet Lab

Mobifree

Mobifree aims to bring about change in the development and use of mobile software in Europe by citizens, businesses, non-profit organisations and governments.
AI Culture Lab binary code visual
Future Internet Lab

Digital Deal

How accelerated, yet unconsidered adoption of new technologies – such as artificial intelligence and machine learning – can alter or undermine democratic processes.

Closed projects

hackathon de groene stad
Commons Lab

Digital Infrastructure for the Community Economy

Waag Futurelab has explored what kind of support digital technology can provide to the development of a locally-rooted, social economy in the city of Amsterdam. We also developped a roadmap outlining what actions can be taken to make these developments happen.
VR ervaring tijdens Museumnacht 2023
Commons Lab

CIIIC

Together with various partners, Waag Futurelab is working to secure public values within the rapidly growing field of Immersive Experiences in the Netherlands.