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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
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.
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.
MuseumCamp Amsterdam
Future Heritage Lab

MuseumCamp

During MuseumCamp exhibition makers, educators and curators explore the potential of digital experiments in exhibitions.
Maakplaats 021
Maker Education Lab

Amsterdam Maakplaats 021

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

Closed projects

FabSchool/Maritiem maaklab
Maker Education Lab

Maritime Make 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 learning outside the classroom
Maker Education Lab

SySTEM 2020

The SySTEM 2020 project is aimed at connecting STEAM learning outside the classroom.
Zichtbaar slimmer - datafysicalisatie workshop door Waag
Creative Learning Lab

Visibly smarter

Can you touch data? Together with primary school students HvA and Waag are looking for a tangible representation of big data.
Maakplaats 021 fellowship
Maker Education Lab

Maakplaats 021 Fellowship

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

Waag Makerbox

By making it yourself, you learn better how 'things' and 'systems' are put together and you can get creative with technology yourself.
meSch tools
Digital Curation Lab

Mobile app for medieval imagery

Together with the CKD Waag developed a mobile app to make stories about mediaeval choir stalls more accessible.
DO IT - Maakplaats 021
Maker Education Lab

DO IT

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
Maker Education Lab

Librarian Maker Camp

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

Platform Maker Education

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

Teacher Maker Camp

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

FabSchool

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