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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.
Future Talks: Artists can change the world
During Future Talks, renowned artists engaged in discussion on how to change the world through art.
Smart Citizens Lab
The road to citizen scientific journalism
What might a structural collaboration between public and journalism look like?
Open Design Lab
STARTS Prize: Winners of 2022!
Holly Herndon and Giulia Foscari won this years two START Prizes! Learn more about their work.
Future Heritage Lab
Spotlight on a Maker of Noord: Daan Meeuwig
Who are the Makers of Amsterdam-Noord? With an exhibition in Amsterdam Museum Noord and an online blog series, we introduce them to you!
Future Internet Lab
Fair online revenue models for creative makers
Big tech is doing it wrong. Join us at MicroMemberships, June 23 at Waag!
TextileLab
Join Waag’s textile and technology academy today!
Fabricademy is a 6-month educational programme exploring the intersection of textiles, digital fabrication and biology. Apply now!
Smart Citizens Lab
The State of Citizen Science
Citizens, policymakers and scientists together in the Waag to reflect on the role of citizen science.
Expedition to planet B: background reading, watching, and listening
With Waag's background tips you can read more about what the rules of the current system are, who defined them and how it could be done differently.
Future Internet Lab
Highlights of PublicSpaces 2022
Two days filled with keynotes, sessions and inspiration for an internet based on public values: we lined up the highlights for you.
Future Internet Lab
Living autonomously in a world of Big Tech
A conversation with philosopher and PublicSpaces speaker Miriam Rasch about her new book. Join the PublicSpaces conference on 17 and 18 May to design digital public spaces with us, and break free from Big Tech.