Julie Ng

Julie NgProject Manager

Julie Ng is project manager with the Future Heritage Lab and Maker Education Lab at Waag (Learn research group). She works on a multitude of projects focusing on contemporary forms of education and interaction, empowering people to participate meaningfully in society.

Julie obtained her bachelor's in International Management at HES and her bachelor's in Media & Culture at UvA. She combines her work at Waag with projects at her foundation 'Meer dan Babi Pangang', which promotes unheared voices. Next to this the foundation was responsible for adding the culture of Chinese Indonesian restaurants to the Inventory of Dutch immaterial heritage.

Labs

Future Heritage Lab

Maker Education Lab

Current projects

Critical ChangeLabs

Maker Education Lab

In the Critical Changelabs project, Waag is working with nine more European partners to revive the relationship between young people and democracy.

Tracks4Crafts

Tracks4Crafts explores and transforms the transfer of traditional craft knowledge to increase the social and economic appreciation of crafts and align them with a forward-looking heritage approach in Europe.

Technological Citizenship

Maker Education Lab

An investigation into the role of creative making processes in developing citizenship skills among young people in a digital society.

Good Game

Maker Education Lab

A theatre performance created by gamers about gaming. In it, young gamers composed their own music via software, which is ideally a metaphor for learning code (programming language).

Make it Open

Maker Education Lab

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

Closed projects

Librarian Maker Camp

Maker Education Lab

To school librarians in the latest make techniques, Waag has developed the Librarian Maker Camp.