Projects

This overview shows our current projects. For older projects that have been completed, visit our project archive.

  • Cyberspecies Proximity by Anna Dumitriu & Alex May
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    Open Design Lab
    Vojext
    Technology is not neutral, so neither are robots. We offer three residencies addressing human-machine relations in manufacturing environments.
  • Amsterdam bicycles mobility
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    Future Internet Lab
    Urbanite
    Urbanite will analyse the impact, trust and attitudes of stakeholders with respect to the integration of disruptive technologies in the mobility…
  • Opening Planet B @ Amsterdam Science Park
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    Open Design Lab
    T-Factor
    Within T-Factor, Waag will help enrich and steer the Amsterdam Science Park masterplan towards urban ecology-related innovation and enterprise.
  • Bjorn Karmann & Tore Knudsen, Project Alias, S+T+ARTS Prize winner 2019.
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    Open Design Lab
    Artsformation
    Mobilising the arts for an inclusive digital transformation: a response to societal challenges proposed by the fast-pacing digital transformation.
  • Public Stack visual
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    Future Internet Lab
    Public Stack: the alternative internet
    The internet is broken, but alternatives are available. We call the collection of these open, fair and safe alternatives the Public Stack.
  • Open Next - Embassy of Health DDW
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    Open Design Lab
    Open Next
    Today’s mass-produced product creation is expensive, risky and unsustainable. SMEs and maker communities across Europe are coming together to…
  • Contemporary Commoning
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    Commons Lab
    Contemporary Commoning
    The research project Contemporary Commoning focuses on the ways the commons can contribute to new forms of (digital) public space and initiate…
  • UITZET2090
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    TextileLab
    HOPECHEST2090
    On the newly emerged Wadden island of Zaankogerland, historian Stientje Molenaar is researching worn and household textiles from after the Great…
  • Public Stack Summit
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    Commons Lab
    Atelier
    Atelier is a five-year project funded by the European Commission that focuses on shaping energy-positive neighbourhoods. Residents, local…
  • Supre:organism Open Call
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    AI Culture Lab
    Supre:organism
    With Supre:organism, Waag sets out to establish a contemporary artistic understanding of life in outer space.
  • Emotienetwerken Dynamisch Documenteren
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    Future Heritage Lab
    Dynamic Documentation
    Waag works together with Imagine IC to create a new tool for a dynamic approach to cultural heritage.
  • Dutch Design Week - Embassy of Health
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    Care Lab
    Embassy of Health
    The Embassy of Health explores challenges within healthcare and unites different perspectives on the crossings of technology, design, science, arts…