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Marielle Lens

Mariëlle LensMaker Educator

Mariëlle Lens is maker educator and concept developer with Waag's Maker Education Lab. In this role, she co-develops projects with organisations in the fields of education, libraries, museums and heritage. The projects focus on new technologies for creating innovative ways of learning. Mariëlle is an advocate for maker education in the Netherlands. From 2016 she has been training teachers and librarians in digital fabrication, at the Maakplaatsen amongst others.

Mariëlle is highly experienced in prototyping, concept development, digital fabrication, coaching and training. She promotes awareness of the fact that the world around us has 'been made'. Her aim is to give people the tools to hack, tinker and improve the design of these worlds.

Before coming to Waag, Mariëlle was a graphic, industrial and product designer. She also designed playgrounds for one of the world's largest manufacturer of playground equipment. Mariëlle obtained her bachelor's degree in Art & Design at the DesignLAB of Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Labs

Current projects

Critical ChangeLabs

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.

Make it Open

Maakplaats Reigersbos FabSchool
Maker Education Lab
Transforming schools into community partnerships. Maker education and citizen science function as a transformative approach for Open Schooling.

MuseumCamp

MuseumCamp Amsterdam
Future Heritage Lab
During MuseumCamp exhibition makers, educators and curators explore the potential of digital experiments in exhibitions.

Amsterdam Maakplaats 021

Maakplaats 021
Maker Education Lab
021 Maakplaats Amsterdam is a scale-up of our years of pioneering activities and efforts in the maker movement en maker education.

Closed projects

Maritime Make Lab

FabSchool/Maritiem maaklab
Maker Education Lab
An education programme for the 'Maakplaatsen' (or maker spaces) in the OBA (Public Libraries of Amsterdam), based on the digital heritage collection of the Maritime Museum.

SySTEM 2020

SySTEM 2020 learning outside the classroom
Maker Education Lab
The SySTEM 2020 project is aimed at connecting STEAM learning outside the classroom.

Visibly smarter

Zichtbaar slimmer - datafysicalisatie workshop door Waag
Creative Learning Lab
Can you touch data? Together with primary school students HvA and Waag are looking for a tangible representation of big data.

Maakplaats 021 Fellowship

Maakplaats 021 fellowship
Maker Education Lab
The Maakplaats 021 Fellowship programme is a unique training for primary and secondary education teachers from Amsterdam.

Waag Makerbox

Makerbox Waag
Maker Education Lab
By making it yourself, you learn better how 'things' and 'systems' are put together and you can get creative with technology yourself.

Mobile app for medieval imagery

meSch tools
Digital Curation Lab
Together with the CKD Waag developed a mobile app to make stories about mediaeval choir stalls more accessible.

DO IT

DO IT - Maakplaats 021
Maker Education Lab
DO IT contributes to youth employment and to create new jobs in the social economy by nurturing in young pupils seeds for active social innovation: entrepreneurial mind-sets, knowhow and skills.

Librarian Maker Camp

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

Platform Maker Education

Platform Maker Education
Maker Education Lab
Platform Maker Education gave an impuls to the bottom-up maker education movement in The Netherlands.

Teacher Maker Camp

Teacher Maker Camp
Maker Education Lab
Waag’s Creative Learning Lab annually organizes a professional development course for teachers in maker education.

FabSchool

FabSchool
Maker Education Lab
Learning by making. With a focus on creativity, technology and entrepreneurship. That is what the project FabSchool is about.