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Eva Vesseur, photo by Jimena Gauna. Waag Futurelab, 2023.

Eva VesseurLead Maker Education Lab

Eva Vesseur works at Waag Futurelab as lead of the Maker Education Lab. She has a strong vision of learning and education of the future. In the Technological Citizenship project, she investigates how critical making can contribute to social innovation. In the Critical ChangeLabs project, she searches for innovative forms to engage with young people on democracy.

Eva graduated as a scriptwriter and theatre dramaturge and studied educational sciences. With The Education Bureau, she has designed learning concepts for ten years. In 2018, she founded primary school and daycare Klein Amsterdam, where she was director for six years. This school operated according to the concept of 'Learning in Intermediate Space', where creativity, ownership and inclusiveness of the evolving human being are most important.

Labs

Current projects

Ouder met kind en telefoon
Future Internet Lab

AI and young parents

Waag Futurelab investigated how the well-being of young parents is affected by their use of Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Do young parents find what they’re looking for, and does it actually help them? Or are there hidden dangers in our current use of chatbots?
Beeld van electronica en textieldraden, en 3 personen die met hun handen bezig zijn om draad te verbinden
Maker Education Lab

Techkwadraat

New developments – from AI to the climate transition – call for citizens who are critical thinkers, creative and technologically literate. With Techkwadraat, Waag is committed to bringing about a structural improvement in education, from primary through to secondary school.
Game illustration from the Escape Fake game, from the Museum of Fake scenario. In the middel we see a female looking character, brown skinned with long hair tied in a bun atop their head, with dread locks circled around them. The person is wearing pink tainted sunglasses. She is surrounded by a gallery of pixellated portraits.
Maker Education Lab

Escape Fake

Escape the Fake uses augmented reality (AR) to transform media literacy education, empowering educators and students to combat disinformation through experiential learning and critical thinking.
Groene en paarse lichtstrepen
Maker Education Lab

PULSE-ART

PULSE-ART integrates arts into education to enhance cultural expression and awareness and address gaps. Through tools tested in seven different countries, it fosters collaboration and lifelong learning, shaping policies to strengthen arts in education across Europe.
Critical ChangeLabs
Maker Education Lab

Critical ChangeLab

Young people are the future of democracy. In the project Critical ChangeLab Waag researched how we can build notions of active citizenship amongst young people, 11 to 18 years old.
Teacher Maker Camp
Maker Education Lab

Teacher Maker Camp

Through the Teacher Maker Camp, Waag supports teachers in integrating maker education and digital literacy into their curriculum.

Closed projects

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Maker Education Lab

Technological Citizenship

An investigation into the role of creative making processes in developing citizenship skills among young people in a digital society.
Maakplaats Reigersbos FabSchool
Maker Education Lab

Make it Open

Transforming schools into community partnerships. Maker education and citizen science function as a transformative approach for Open Schooling.