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Open Design Lab
VOJEXT S+T+ARTS selected artist in residences
We are happy to share with you the selected artists for the VOJEXT S+T+ARTS residencies. The selected artists were announced during the S+T+ARTS presentations at European Robotic Forum 2023 in Odense (Denmark).
Future Heritage Lab
A history of change: Stories of circularity and making in Noord
Waag is committed to keeping makers in the city. But who are these makers and what is their story?
TextileLab
Shemakes: Enabling Textile Labs and Women Innovators
Come and take a look at the learnings of Shemakes, a project that aims to bridge the gender equality gap and move towards sustainability, in the textile and clothing industry.
Urban Ecology Lab
Onkruidenier: learning from the smallest extremophiles
What does the landscape want to become? A conversation with two ecosystem futurologists from artist collective the Onkruidenier.
Gray boxes versus a Food Park: With Natasha Hulst
Who owns the soil? The Lutkemeerpolder will be developed into a mega distribution center, or it can become a Food Park. A visit to the green Planet B of Natasha Hulst, one of the initiators of Food Park Amsterdam.
Biased Technology: Behind Shirley
Art-installation ‘Behind Shirley’ by Ibiye Camp explores racial bias in photography and in facial-recognition software.
Waag Futurelab: Alliance Against Military AI
Waag Futurelab is part of the Alliance Against Military AI. We urge the Dutch government to immediately stop their development of AI in the military domain.
Urban Ecology Lab
Artistic fieldwork: Space for silence and bewilderment
What does the city landscape want to become? Artistic artist Esmee Geerken: ‘It would be good to revalue the space for mythologies, animals, silence and less heard voices.'
Future Internet Lab
Code for Children's Rights: Partners disappointed in ministry's approach
The partners in the Code for Children's Rights are disappointed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs' approach of digital children's rights.
Smart Citizens Lab
What are the effects of heat waves on our society?
In the project Thermo-staat we examine the effects of heat on the living environment of residents. Visit the Thermo-staat website that was launched today!
Future Internet Lab
We asked ChatGPT to reflect on its values
ChatGPT has been dominating the news for weeks on end now. How does this all-knowing AI tool feel about the values of open, fair, and inclusive - and does he uphold them?
How to deal with AI? Two tips for visual artists
AI art-generating platforms are alarming visual artists: they fear their work being chartered for commercial ends, or even worse: to get out-competed by AI art. Two practical tips for humans to deal with AI art platforms.
Smart Citizens Lab
Big changes start with small steps
How can big problems that play a role in our food system be tackled locally?
The good farmer and smart supermarkets: Simone van der Burg
The Dutch way of farming is being threatened, while the country is also dealing with a nitrogen crisis. We discuss this in the Planet B podcast.
Job opening: Contributing producer Events
Waag is looking for a contributing producer to our events, who is looking forward to work on the best events for the public programme!
Space Lab
Open call for More-than-Planet residencies
We're excited to share the More-than-Planet open call for artists working on environmental topics, through art and science. The residencies take place in Finland. Selected artists each receive 15.000 EUR to create new work.
Space Lab
Join the More-than-Planet workshop at transmediale
Are you planning to go to the transmediale festival in Berlin? Join the More-than-Planet workshop: Towards a planetary cultural landscape!
Future Heritage Lab
Waag in Parool: Makers and craftspeople make the city
The exodus of local makers puts the vibrancy and sustainability of Amsterdam at stake. But makers are the key to a future that is truly circular and diverse.
Future Heritage Lab
Half of manufacturing companies will leave Amsterdam-North by 2028
Waag mapped Amsterdam-Noord's manufacturing companies. The initial findings show that sixty per cent of them will leave their workplace before the end of 2028.
FabLab
15 years of Fablab: where you can make (almost) anything
Na de opening in de Waag in 2007 en het tienjarig jubileum in 2017, viert Waag deze week het vijftien (en een half-)jarig bestaan van haar Fablab. Kom naar de lezing of het feest 's avonds in de Waag.
Open Design Lab
Extended! S+T+ARTS Prize Open Call 2023
The submission phase for S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 is extended until 13 March! Submit your work and get a chance of winning 20.000 Euros prize money.
Game changer #10: Land use beyond the rules of market and state
In the blog series game changers we talk to change makers who do things differently. Is there a future in land use through a Community Land Trust?
Waag in 2022: the highlights!
The year 2022 was full of highlights for Waag. Check it out with us!
Podcast #4: Marleen Stikkers planet B and Mastodon
Do you have good intentions for next year? In the Planet B Waag podcast, Marleen Stikker advocates for a shared responsibility to design an internet for people instead of profit in 2023. Plus: we should all come over to decentralised platforms such as Mastodon.