Our work
Future Internet Lab
Charging infrastructures and the local government
Ensuring that charging infrastructures for electric vehicles are based on public values such as inclusivity: this is how you can do so as a local government.
TextileLab
Reflow Instructables: Mend your own clothes!
Mend your own clothes! With the instruction videos and manuals by Waag's TextileLab, you'll learn various techniques to close the gaps.
Smart Citizens Lab
The future of food in Amersfoort Schothorst
How to help a community adapt towards healthier food choices? This was researched by Waag in Amersfoort Schothorst.
Future Internet Lab
Exploring Micromemberships
In search of fair and open online revenue models for creatives
Waag: Research Agenda 2022-2024
The Research Agenda is at the foundation of Waag's work. Now available: the updated Research Agenda for 2022-2024.
Future Heritage Lab
The practice of Mixed Reality for heritage
Waag's Future Heritage Lab researched Mixed Reality in practice for museums and heritage institutions. This is their final report. (Dutch)
Waag: Annual Report 2021
Waag's annual report for 2021: the first expedition to the future, impact research, urban ecology, futurist expositions, many walks, and more.
Smart Citizens Lab
The Rhythm of the City
Report on the measurements and lessons from the sound experiment Amsterdam Sounds.
Walk towards the future with Waag
Walk towards the future of data, the land, the North Sea or the smart city, with Waag!
TextileLab
Amsterdam Reflow Booklet
Addressing the environmental impact of the textile industry through a grassroots initiative focusing on discarded consumer textile.
Future Internet Lab
MicroDonor: Microdonations for public value?
In the MicroDonor project, Waag researched a system that enables users to pay for online content and services with microdonations instead of data.
Maker Education Lab
Learning outside the classroom makes science education more accessible
The SySTEM 2020 final publication shares recommendations and methods to stimulate non-formal and informal STEAM education.
Maker Education Lab
Maker education stimulates innovative and entrepreneurial learning
European education policy recommendation: focus on the development of digital manufacturing, social innovation and entrepreneurship among young learners.
Waag: Annual report of 2020
Waag is publishing her annual report for 2020: a year of working from home in the public stack, hacking the green city, and more. (Dutch)
Maker Education Lab
Maakazine #2: retrospect, manual and plan Maakplaats 021
The second Maakazine was launched by Maakplaats 021. How to actively involve children and young people in shaping the future?
Commons Lab
Case Studies for Participatory Mobility
How do disruptive innovations threaten or improve democratic governance of public policy and data?
Care Lab
Maker's COVID-19 response: Careables, worldwide design and local production
Frontiers of Sociology publishes an article on makers' COVID-19 response to the worldwide shortage in medical supplies during corona crisis.
Co-creation Lab
Big Messages publication
The Cities-4-People publication 'Big Messages: Lessons for co-creative mobility initiatives in neighbourhoods' on co-creating neighbourhood mobility.
Future Internet Lab
A Public Stack for charging electric vehicles
Download the Public Stack about charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Consisting of a report, quick scan, and long read.
Future Heritage Lab
Beyond your Bubble
In the Digital Dynamic Documentation project, Imagine IC and Waag are investigating how emotion networks can be used as a concept in combination with interactive technology. Read the publication.
Future Internet Lab
Authenticity and reputation in the digital public space
In this research paper, Waag's CTO Tom Demeyer reflects on the meaning of the digital public space and the principle of authenticity.
Annual report: Waag in 2019
Our annual report for 2019 is now online! Waag took important steps last year, both on the substantial and the organisational level.
Future Internet Lab
Roadmap Digital Future
For the past few months, Waag worked closely together with the Dutch parliament commission on digitalization.
Future Internet Lab
Algorithm: the man in the machine
Commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Waag conducted an investigation into "guidelines for the use of algorithms" based on two cases at the Dutch police and UWV.