Our work
Space Lab
Essay: Finding New Planetary Imaginaries and Actions
We are in need of new planetary imaginaries: new ways of communal thinking that allows us to care for the planet and all its entities, including the more-than-human ones. This essay provides an insight of the artistic work-in-progress within the project More-than-Planet.
Smart Citizens Lab
Choosing a plant-based diet in a new food environment
How can creative methods help in the acceptance and design of healthy and sustainable food environments?
Open Design Lab
Open Environmental Sensing Toolkit
The Open Environmental Sensing Toolkit can be used as a guideline for developing open hardware for environmental sensing.
Maker Education Lab
Open Schooling Navigator
The Open Schooling Navigator is a website where you can find inspiring teaching materials for making education beyond school walls.
Smart Citizens Lab
Amsterdecks
Amsterdecks are smart swimming platforms that measure water quality through sensors.
Smart Citizens Lab
Hollandse Luchten sensor kit
View this modular sensor kit, developed by Waag for measuring outdoor air quality as part of our Hollandse Luchten project.
Future Internet Lab
Map: the ages of Dutch buildings
The age of all buildings in the Netherlands have been indexed on this map, developed by Waag within the Smart CitySDK project.
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.