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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

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.
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.
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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 ChangeLabs

Young people are the future of democracy. In our Critical ChangeLabs project, we research how we can build notions of active citizenship amongst young people, 11 to 18 years old.
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TextileLab

Tracks4Crafts

Tracks4Crafts seeks to personify and define a crafts person 2.0. In this project, we seek a future-proof heritage approach that enriches crafts and makes them more resilient where possible, without losing the characteristic features of craft heritage.
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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.
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Maker Education Lab

Good Game

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).
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Maker Education Lab

Make it Open

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

Librarian Maker Camp

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