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Portretfoto Claudia van Swelm, genomen door Jimena Gauna, Waag Futurelab 2025

Claudia van SwelmCommunicator

Claudia is communicator of the Code research group. In this position, she deals with all communications around projects of the Future Internet Lab and the Commons Lab.

Before Claudia worked at Waag, she worked as a communications officer in the cultural sector, including at Cultuur19, Poppodium EKKO and Podium Hoge Woerd/Theater Kikker in Utrecht. At Cultuur19 she built the youth community KLUB19 and developed programs with local youth in the field of music, games and media art. She completed her bachelor in Theater, Film and Television Studies at Utrecht University and her master New Media and Digital Culture.

Labs

Current projects

Masterclass Netpolitiek, Waag, 2022
Future Internet Lab

Masterclass Net Politics 2025

Waag Futurelab organises an annual Masterclass Net Politics where people working on digital society learn about topics such as digital transparency, public values on the internet and decision-making regarding large tech platforms.
Vrouw staat met laptop naast een grote computer
Future Internet Lab

Human-AI Collaboration for Quantum Technologies

This project explores the collaboration between human and artificial intelligence for quantum systems and their scientific applications. It aims to create new research opportunities and contributes to both the development of quantum technology and broader societal knowledge on this topic.
Een vrouw met een velgekleurd jasje houd een apparaat vast. Achter haar is een sterrenhemel geprojecteerd tegen een muur met gele en paarse sterren.
Future Internet Lab

EXCENTRIC

EXCENTRIC ontwikkelt en implementeert een Collaborative Data Practice door de uitvoering van vier sectorspecifieke en twee cross-sectorale pilots onder echte werkomstandigheden.
hackathon de groene stad
Commons Lab

Digital Infrastructure for the Community Economy

Waag Futurelab explores what kind of support digital technology can provide to the development of a locally-rooted, social economy in the city of Amsterdam. It also works toward a roadmap outlining what actions can be taken to make it happen.
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.
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.
boekenkast
Future Internet Lab

Balanced Choices

Waag develops a recommender application for libraries and other cultural institutions where values such as privacy and autonomy are central and the data is managed by the end-user themselves
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.
PublicSpaces - marleen
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.
Public Stack Summit
Commons Lab

Atelier

Atelier is a 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.