Agenda
What appears foul becomes fertile
Artist Michael Pinsky presents Your Shit Smells Like Roses. Go and see this new installation at the Water Bar in Leeuwarden.
Rerooting
Join us at Waag on September 3 for the Det Digit Art House show & tell. Discover the works Anna Musikhina and Werner van der Zwan created during their residency, at the intersection of technology and ecology.
Ars Electronica Festival 2026
The annual Ars Electronica Festival will take place in Linz, Austria, from 9 to 13 September. Waag Futurelab will be there—find out here where you can meet us throughout the festival.
Exhibition: Buy it, use it, break it, fix it
During GLUE 2026, Waag Futurelab is hosting 9 works of artists and designers, showcasing how design can scratch at the surface of larger themes. Our designed world is broken, can we fix it? At least we can mend, patch, hack and repair.
Opening: Buy it, use it, break it, fix it
Join us in this festive opening of the exhibition during GLUE Amsterdam, where 9 works of artists and designers will be showcased.
Bridging the gap: digital technology as enhancement, not replacement
How can digital technology support craftsmanship without removing the maker from the process? In this lecture, Aslı Aydın Aksan explores the role of digital technology within craft.
On the hunt for public tech
For a lot of us Instagram, WhatsApp and Google have become part of our everyday lives. That's why during Waag Open on 1 October, we’re on the hunt for the better alternatives.
Expo: NeuroNarratives
From 2 until 4 October Waag proudly host the exhibition of the NeuroNarratives art-science residencies. Five pairs of artists and scientists worked together to translate socially urgent neuroscientific findings into experiential, mixed-media artworks.
The nature of our monetary system
In this edition of Good Money, we return to what money should be at its core: the public technology for organising labour and production. How can we create a better world, in which money does not first have to be ‘made’ through polluting and extractive activities?
