Christine van den Horn

Christine van den HornHead of Public Programme

Christine van den Horn was responsible for the public programme of Waag, aimed at the sharing of knowledge, vision and project results to a wide audience. The programme involves hands-on research by the public and aims at finding new ways to experience what the impact of technology can be. She was co-lead of Waag's Interface team.

Christine was trained as an arts teacher in Amsterdam. Next to this, she studied Autonomous Art & Media Technology and did her masters in Media Arts (EMMA) at University of the Arts Utrecht. Before Christine started working for Waag, she was festival producer and director of new media at Cinekid Amsterdam.

Current projects

Expedition to planet B

Waag is embarking on an expedition to planet B in order to design and create a desired future that is open, fair and inclusive. Join us!

NWA Route Smart Liveable Cities

Smart Citizens Lab

Waag organises the route management around public programmes relating to ‘Smart, liveable cities’, aiming to better connect science with society.

Waag Open

Waag is open on every first Thursday night of the month. Join the experiments, making and discussions in our digital fabrication and biotech labs.

3Package Deal Bio Art & Design

Waag gives biotech artists and designers the opportunity to use our facilities and to present their work within our public programme.

Closed projects

Hackathon de groene stad

Future Internet Lab

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.

Culturele Maakkaravaan

Maker Education Lab

Waag collaborates with the City of Amsterdam in the project Culturele Maakkaravaan to explore and improve the relationship between Amsterdam citizens and the digital city.

AI AI Barbie

Creative Learning Lab

In 'AI AI Barbie', new frameworks for responsible use of AI in toys are being drawn up together with parents, children and experts.

Waag Makerbox

Maker Education Lab

By making it yourself, you learn better how 'things' and 'systems' are put together and you can get creative with technology yourself.

WeMakeThe.City

WeMakeThe.City is the festival that makes cities better.

Do Worry, be happy

Future Internet Lab

In the blog series 'Do worry, be happy!' we talk to experts in the field of technology, innovation and ethics about new developments.

Maker festival

Maker Education Lab

MakerEducation.nl and Maker Faire Eindhoven presented the best that the maker industry and maker education have to offer.

Made4You

In the European project, Made4You, we're building an international learning community of makers, care recipients, and healthcare professionals over a three year period.

Smart Kids Lab

Creative Learning Lab

The Smart Kids Lab enables children to map their environment in a playful way, by using modern technology and instruments.

Doing it together science

Citizens have a major role to play in addressing the challenges to a sustainable future. It is by ‘doing science together’ that we combine our resources and expertise to raise awareness, build capacity, and innovative lasting solutions grounded in society.

Making Sense

Smart Citizens Lab

Making Sense showed how open-source software, open-source hardware, digital maker practices and open design can be used by local communities to make sense of their environments.

Big, Open & Beautiful

Future Internet Lab

Big, Open & Beautiful was a series of Waag and Pakhuis de Zwijger on open data, big data and the possibilities of visualising data.