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Essay Michiel Schwarz: 'Future is a verb'
At the invitation of Waag Futurelab, Michiel Schwarz wrote an essay on the future.
Better Future Now Festival
From September 22 -September 25 Waag explores what happens when we change the economic rules of the game at the Better Future Now Festival. See you there?
Maker Education Lab
Andrija Pavlović about Quantum Music
Quantum Music is a project with the aim to explore the connection between music and quantum physics through the creation of a new live performance show.
Listen to the podcast: Everyone along to planet B
The launch of Waag's planet B podcast! In the first episode, Tonya and Gijs have a chat with cultural entrepreneur Angelo Bromet. Because we want everyone along for the ride to planet B.
Game changer #4: Confusion on a higher level
In this fourth episode of Game Changers, we talk to Marco te Brömmelstroet. He tries to make us realise that there is more than one way to look at our use of the street.
Commons Lab
Launch: Incubator for communal economy
With her partners Waag is launching this incubator to enforce local, democratic, bottom-up and commons inspired initiatives.
Future Internet Lab
Reflection on ACROSS user cases: design for whom?
In the ACROSS project, Waag and partners are designing safe data exchanges between governmental services in EU member states.
Future Internet Lab
Is the government really switching to Google Docs?
The government will have more freedom to use commercial cloud services. This involves major risks, as Gijs Boerwinkel and Job Spierings discuss in the newspaper NRC.
Game changer #3: Michèle Thole and the monetary system
In this third episode of the Game Changer blog series, Michèle Thole shines her ligt on the faults in our monetary system.
Future Internet Lab
Open Call: Innovatielabs hackaton Dutch Design Week
Do you want to contribute to the way the cultural sector shares calendar data and event registrations with the public in the future?
Future Internet Lab
Creativity cannot be captured in uniform platforms
Why ready-made platforms do not offer a suitable revenue model for creative makers.
Future Internet Lab
Beyond the disruptive power of platformisation
On the need for a fundamentally different perspective of online revenue models.
Game changer #2: From sharing economy to community economy
In the Game Changer blog series, we talk to artists, musicians and do-gooders who do things differently. We ask them: 'What new rules of the game are needed for an open, fair and inclusive future?'
Future Internet Lab
Accounting for human agency in European digital identity
Potential gaps in digital wallets and attribute-based credentials.
Game changer #1: Rami Ismail and inequality in the gaming industry
In the Game Changer blog series, we talk to artists, musicians and do-gooders who do things differently. We ask them: 'What new rules of the game are needed for an open, fair and inclusive future?'
Open Design Lab
Waag KABK Awards 2022
Waag's Art & Technology KABK Awards 2022 go to Armand Lesecq (MA art-science) and Anne-Florence Neveu (BA art-science). Discover their works!
Open Design Lab
Artsformation call selected artists
After receiving over seventy proposals for the Artsformation call in April, we are happy to announce the artists that Waag will be working with in the following period.
Open Design Lab
An inclusive nightlife for humans and other creatures
At night, a new world opens at Science Park. How can we create an inclusive nightlife for a broad variety of people, animals and other creatures?
Space Lab
Special Report: How's the Weather?
From sunrise to sunset on the solstice of 21 June 2022, artists and their collaborators responded to the question: how’s the weather?
Open Design Lab
How to become a better factory: Watch the livestream
Are you a manufacturing SME, artist and/or technology provider? Then the Better Factory Open Call might be of interest to you.
De Trammelans van meneer Sam
Mark Boode wrote the story De Trammelans van meneer Sam for Expedition to Planet B. Read the story!
Expedition to planet B: Maker Festival Twente
At the Maker Festival Twente, Waag and TETEM joined forces: as part of Waag's expedition to planet B we presented two special new forms of games during this festival.
Smart Citizens Lab
Tech Takeover
Smart technology erodes personal and public spaces, but it doesn’t have to, says Max Kortlander.
How the donut helps us to imagine a Planet B
Our current economic model needs to change. Kate Raworth helps us do so.