News
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 last six months. The initial findings of the study show that sixty per cent of the companies interviewed 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
S+T+ARTS Prize Open Call 2023
It's that time of the year again: the submission phase for S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 is open from January 11! 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.
Smart Citizens Lab
Towards a plant-based diet: emotion networks as a method
Emotion networks as a co-creative method to contribute to the food transition.
Maker Education Lab
Quantum scientist, I'll take you by the hand
During a two-day hackathon, students, artists, scientists, philosophers and tech-minded 'citizens' worked together to develop artistic concepts and prototypes using the promising power and wonderful peculiarity of quantum computers.
Game changer #9: Public-civil cooperation
Public-civil cooperation is the new participation. In this ninth episode of the Game Changers blog series, we talk to Teun Gautier, who amongst others invented StadmakersCoöperatie.
Podcast #3: Transparant algorithms for the government
For our third podcast episode, we welcome civil servant Maike Klip. Listen to her planet B.
Open Design Lab
Open Call: VOJEXT S+T+ARTS Residencies
Are you an artist with an interest in robots in construction, architecture, arts and crafts? Join one of the three residencies and receive 30.000 Euros of funding.
Lessons for measuring and realising impact
How should we define impact in the cultural and creative sector?
Future Internet Lab
A step towards combating fake news
How do you recognise fake news in a digital age oversaturated with information? In the Proof of Provenance project, Waag worked in a coalition of Dutch partners to develop a system for checking the authenticity of media statements.
Commons Lab
A stray for the neighbourhood to interpret
Can you speed up the inhabitation of a new housing estate that lacks a sense of life? Part 3 of the series on Wielemaatjes on Zeeburgereiland.
Game changer #8: Open knowledge by and for the city
In this eighth episode of Game changers, Sandra Sijbrandij and Harmen Zijp expand on their citizen science measuring network and successful public-civil collaboration.
Video series: What if we changed the rules of the game?
What if we changed the rules of the game? In this year's expedition to planet B, Waag explored alternatives to Earth's current system.
Commons Lab
Inspiration from permaculture
Can you speed up the inhabitation of a new housing estate that lacks a sense of life? Part 2 of the series on Wielemaatjes on Zeeburgereiland.
Maker Education Lab
Maker education for better spatial awareness
Marten Westerhof researches how spatial awareness can be enhanced by using maker education.
Maker Education Lab
Maakplaats of the future: creating art with DALL-E
Librarian Maker Camp is a two-day training course aimed at gaining inspiration and discovering new making techniques. This year, LMC's theme was future thinking.