Our work
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.
TextileLab
Amsterdam Reflow Booklet
Addressing the environmental impact of the textile industry through a grassroots initiative focusing on discarded consumer textile.
Smart citizen walk: background reading, watching and listening
Tips from Waag! Read, watch and listen more about the world of the smart city, citizen science, datafication and digitalisation.
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.
North Sea walk: background reading, watching and listening
Tips from Waag! Read, watch and listen more about the world of the North Sea, non-human entities and ecology.
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.
Land walk: background reading, watching and listening
Joining the land walk? Waag collected tips for background reading, watching, and listening. Step into the world of soil, agriculture and biodiversity.
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?
Data walk: background reading, watching, and listening
Joining the data walk? Waag collected some tips for background reading, watching, and listening. Step into the world of data.
Data walk: background reading, watching, and listening (extended list)
Join Waag's data walk, and read into the subject of the future of data with our extended list of recommendations.
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.
Care Lab
A navigator for successful implementation of eHealth
Implementing eHealth into the daily practices of healthcare institutions is often more difficult than initiated. This navigator helps.
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.