open design

Ista Boszhard and Cecilia Raspanti of TextileLab Amsterdam are the winners at Future Fashion Pioneers.

 

Zeven exhibits curated and supported by Waag at the exhibition 'Chronic Health' at the Dutch Design Week 2018.

 

Design blog Dezeen has interviewed Sabine Wildevuur of our Creative Care Lab in their series called 'Good Design for a Bad World'. In the interview, she describes healthcare as "a closed system" in which patients have little power.

 

During the Dutch Design Week 2017 you can visit the Embassy of Health to discover gene.coop. Gene.coop is a cooperative in which your DNA is stored and only made available to third parties under conditions determined by you.

 

Last month I flew to Chile for the 'Gathering of Open Science Hardware' (GOSH). I went there there with the idea to see a lot of hardware, exchange ideas about equipment and problems you face during equipment development, and of course meet many awesome people. Those cool people I definitely met but I actually did not see that much hardware! Nevertheless, the gathering was no disappointment and left a much bigger impression than I could imagine beforehand.

 

Frank Kresin looks ahead to 2017, that brings new challenges and opportunities and a new job for him at the University of Twente, managing the newly founded DesignLab.

 

In 2015, we were part of the international Dutch Design Week again in Eindhoven. And for this occassion, we also replaced a part of our public activities to our Pet shop at the Klokgebouw, where it was all happening during the event.

 

The Rijksmuseum has added the digital design of the 'Makerchair Hexagon' from the Dutch designer Joris Laarman to its collection.

 

We published the content of the minor Open Design, that is offered since September 2013 at students of the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, in a document under a Creative Commons BY-SA license.

 

A try-out on Instructables suddenly became a hit. The consequence was that after two days the page had more than 60.000 visitors.

 

The Rijksmuseum is now organising the competition Make your own Masterpiece… The winner of the Rijksstudio Award will be the best design created using Rijksstudio, i.e. one that is inspired by the Rijksmuseum's collection. Every conceivable form of art is allowed (design, fine art, applied art, photography, video). And anyone can enter.

 

This year the public voted for Fairphone (Bas van Abel) as the winner of the Fontanel Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards 2013. Fairphone was nominated in the new Future Concepts category.

 

Who wants to do the Dutch Design Week 2013 (DDW13) in just one day has to make choices, as there is an overflowing supply.

 

Waag and Kennisland organized the seminar ‘The Future of Open’. At this seminar, experts from various backgrounds discussed the future of Creative Commons and ‘open’ in the Netherlands.

 

In September 2013, the first Open Design Minor started at WdKA Rotterdam.

 

How to position yourself in the field of design research? As a researching designer of as designing researcher? This theme was explored at the third design research hotpot, that took place on Wednesday 19 June. This edition of the evening was organized at design agency Muzus in The Hague. Sanne and Neele welcomed the participants in their atmospheric studio, to involve them in an inspiring discussion.

 

Industrial Designer Maarten Hertog joined our three day FairPhone Design Bootcamp and wrote a blog about it.

 

ind 17e eeuw bezocht Tsaar Peter de Grote het Waaggebouw, waar hij zich in het anatomische theater liet inwijden in de ontleedkunde door arts en geleerde Frederik Ruysch. Op 10 april 2013 zat het Theatrum Anatomicum weer vol Russen. Ditmaal was het een delegatie van de ‘Association of Innovative Regions of Russia’ (AIRR), die alles wilde horen over digitale fabricage en open design.

 

Connectivity Lab Live celebrated the new Connectivity Lab at Medea, Malmö University with a two-day creators event exploring innovative prototyping in the field of connected devices and social media. The event gathered visionaries, designers, programmers, makers and other creative minds for ideas and inspiration, talks, workshops, exhibitions and a 24-hour prototype challenge on 7-8 December 2012.

 

At the end of October 2012, the Rijksmuseum launched Rijksstudio, an open collection of 125.000 works of the museum. We showed people what you can do with this collection at the Bijenkorf stores in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.

 

This year, the annual conference of the international Fablab community on implications and implementations of digital fabrication, Fab8, was held at the Massey University in Wellington New Zealand. The worldwide Fablab community is growing rapidly. There are now about 145 Fablabs and this number is doubling every two years. In New Zealand, the Mãori culture is very strongly interwoven in society. No wonder the opening ceremony of Fab8 begun with a welcome talk (Mihi Whakatau) in Mãori language, followed by a special song, and then the greeting ritual - nose on nose with each other.

 

Last week I participated in a workshop on Booktype at the Sandberg Institute. Booktype is an open source 'self-publishing' platform. Here's an introduction to Booktype and a short report on what we tried to achieve and got done.

 

The fifth edition of the alumni magazine 'REX' is about Open Design.