open design

The term 'open design' first appeared at the end of the last century with the founding of the non-profit Open Design Foundation, which attempted to describe this new phenomenon. The organization proposed necessary conditions for open design rather than attempting to comprehensively define it: open design was design whose makers allowed its free distribution and documentation and permitted modifications and derivations of it.

 

Event

15-12-2021

KABK Waag Awards 2021 presentations

The Waag Awards recognise the most promising students of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. You are cordially invited to the presentations.

 

Event

14-12-2021

Presentations Urban Ecology: making the living city

Building in the sweet spot between order and chaos. Can we grow sustainable and nature-inclusive cities?

 

Article

30-06-2021

Transforming Citizen Sensing design sprint

In four evenings, a diverse group of participants came together to design a sensing device.

 

Article

26-04-2021

Transforming Citizen Sensing interviews

A report of the interviews of Transforming Citizen Sensing, in preparation for the design sprint.

 

Event

15-04-2021

Transforming Citizen Sensing design sprint

A four-day design sprint about open source hardware for air quality measurement inspired by real use cases.

 

Event

4-02-2021

Impact Studio 2

On 11 February programme developer Paulien Melis of Waag's Creative Care Lab will speak on the PACO project at Pakhuis de Zwijger (in Dutch).

 

Event

29-11-2020

Transforming citizen sensing

Join us Wednesday 9 december and Thursday 10 december at the Transforming citizen sensing conference!

 

Article

27-10-2020

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.

 

Project

26-05-2020

Better Factory

Better Factory will provide methodology and opportunities for manufacturers to collaborate with artists at developing new and personalized products.

 

Article

14-05-2020

Webinar: A distributed answer to a global crisis

Our partners at OpenDot are organising a webinar on ideas, communities and rules of the distributed design movement during corona crisis.

 

Project

30-03-2020

Open Next

Today’s mass-produced product creation is expensive, risky and unsustainable. SMEs and maker communities across Europe are coming together to fundamentally change the way we create, produce, and distribute products.

 

Article

7-01-2020

Rook - playful data visualisation for air quality

Rook is a playful data visualization device aiming at the dissemination of air quality data.

 

Event

22-10-2019

An Intuitive Approach to 3D-printing

Waag's Tiwánee van der Horst developed Ana, an intuitive 3D painting machine in response to 3D printing technology.

 

Article

21-10-2019

Waag @ Dutch Design Week 2019

Waag is a regular guest at the annual Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. You can find us at different locations between 19-27 October.

 

Event

10-10-2019

Exploring healthcare as commons

During Dutch Design Week, the Chamber of Commons explores healthcare as commons, as a response to new healthcare challenges.

 

Event

8-10-2019

Guided tour Chronic Health

On Thursday 24 October, co-curator Paulien Melis will give a tour of the exhibition Chronic Health: It's only human?

 

Event

8-10-2019

Conference Embassy of Health

Together with designers, care professionals and scientists, we question our current design and innovation approaches.

 

Project

8-10-2019

Embassy of Health

The Embassy of Health explores challenges within healthcare and unites different perspectives on the crossings of technology, design, science, arts and healthcare.

 

Event

7-10-2019

Exploring materials & materiality

At Dutch Design Week, Waag's TextileLab explores materials & materiality as medium for understanding ecologies, tradition & foster collaborative knowledge creation.

 

Event

7-10-2019

Chronic Health: It's only human?

This exhibition at the Dutch Design Week highlights the power of design in transforming healthcare.

 

Event

9-09-2019

Becoming A Decision-Making Citizen

Find out how you can become capable of prototyping real-life solutions to future-proof access for all, in Livable and Inclusive Smart Cities of the 21stCentury.

 

Event

24-04-2019

Change the design

How can design solve social issues? Contribute to improving life in refugee camps during this design workshop.

 

Event

1-04-2019

Waag @ Milan Design Week 2019

At the Milan Design Week, Waag will be present at the exhibition 'Design Collisions' at Cascina Cuccagna, curated by Laura Traldi.

 

Event

27-02-2019

Critical Making evening #1

The first Critical Making evening forms an introduction to the research. With presentation by Florian Cramer, Letizia Chiappini and Shailoh Phillips.

 

Article

12-12-2018

Ista and Cecilia winners at Future Fashion Pioneers

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

 

Article

1-10-2018

'Chronic Health' at Dutch Design Week 2018

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

 

Event

8-02-2018

Human+ The future of our species

The 'Self-adjustable prosthesis', developed at Fablab Amsterdam by Waag, is part of the exhibition HUMAN+ The Future of Our Species at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore.

 

Event

7-02-2018

FabCity Summit

Marleen Stikker of Waag is one of the speakers at the public dialogue programme of the FabCity Summit, at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam on 20 April 2016. Earlier on the same day, Frank Kresin (research director) will attend the expert meeting at the FabCity Campus.

 

Event

7-02-2018

FreeCAD basic workshop

This half-day workshop will give an exhaustive introduction to the open source software FreeCAD. We will 3D model a simple object, in order to understand all the main functions of this very impressive program.

 

Event

7-02-2018

Blender basic workshop

During this half-day workshop, we will explore the basic features of Blender and how interact with a mesh 3D model.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Design/Fabrication Symposium, San Francisco

Waag is collaborating with One Architecture and Filson and Rohrbacher to conceptualize a future Design/Fabrication Laboratory in Amsterdam. We’ll be joined by Testa & Weiser Inc, Jelle Ferenga, DUS Architects, and many fabrication industry leaders, to develop a blueprint for a D/F Lab that will advance Amsterdam’s architecture, construction and development-ecology.

 

Event

4-02-2018

ViennaOpen 2015

Waag once again participates in the ViennaOpen festival for Open Design, that will be held in Vienna (Austria) on 9 & 10 April 2015. Pieter van Boheemen of our Open Wetlab will present our activities and give a workshop.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Open Design Signatures

On February 3rd, 2015 students of the Open Design minor at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam will present their work at the Nieuwe Instituut.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Vienna Open 2014

Marleen Stikker of Waag will join the Vienna Open Festival on 25 and 26 October 2014 for a lecture on the first day called 'Towards Fair and Open Technologies' and a panel discussion the day after on 'Smart City and Fair Green Technology'.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Re-engineering the world: How open design contributes to social innovation

Marleen Stikker will speak at ViennaOpen: the festival for open design, shared economies and the 3rd industrial revolution.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Open Design / Shared Creativity International Conference

The Open Design / Shared Creativity International Conference will once again be held as part of the FADfest 2013 on 5 and 6 July in Barcelona. ODSC is reaching its second edition with the intention of becoming an annual space for reflection on the culture of open design and its potential in the creative professions. Marleen Stikker of Waag will deliver a keynote speech at the conference.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Waag @ PICNIC '12 (Day 2)

PICNIC Festival ’12 will be a two day, international gathering dedicated to exploring the theme “New Ownership: the shift from top down to bottom up”. This theme will be explored through lectures, interactive discussions and co-creation workshops which focus on developing concepts and prototyping.

 

Event

4-02-2018

Incubate Open Source Expo

Waag will participate at the Open Source Expo of the Incubate festival in Tilburg with our Open Design exhibit that we made for the Rotterdam Designprize exhibition last year.

 

Article

13-12-2017

Dezeen article on open-source healthcare design

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.

 

Article

20-10-2017

Gene.coop at the Dutch Design Week 2017

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.

 

Article

25-04-2017

Change the world with open science hardware

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.

 

Article

9-01-2017

2017 and moving on

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.

 

Event

13-09-2016

Waag @ Dutch Design Week 2016

In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2,500 designers to more than 275,000 visitors from home and abroad. Waag is present this year with multiple projects!

 

Article

5-01-2016

Fairphone introduces 3D printed wooden accessoires

Fairphone has created a special set of wooden, 3D printed accessoires for its latest model, Fairphone 2, that are printed at a facility in your own neigborhood.

 

Article

11-12-2015

Report on Design/Fabrication Lab

As an outcome of the Design/Fabrication lab project, we have put together a report, that is now available as a free download.

 

Article

16-10-2015

Our programme during Dutch Design Week

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.

 

Article

16-12-2014

3D-printed open source chair in the Rijksmuseum

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

 

Article

3-11-2014

Finalists Fairphone Accessory Challenge

The past open design contest of 2014 challenged designers to send in their 3D designs for a Fairphone Accessory.

 

Project

12-08-2014

Whiskers

Waag developed 'Whiskers': objects that remotely connect people in a playful way.

 

Article

22-07-2014

Hypermud revisited

At the website of designboom architecture I found a post about the Vietnamese pavilion for the Expo in Milan in 2015.

 

Article

27-03-2014

Download, print and build your own house?

Steve Swiggers and Vincent Muller of the Dutch branch of Wikihouse presented their design at the RAP for an open source garden house. Via hollandwikihouse.nl they invited everyone to co-design specific parts they could find a solution for themselves.

 

Article

11-03-2014

Content of minor Open Design published

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.

 

Article

21-01-2014

An unexpected hit on Instructables

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

 

Article

23-11-2013

Downloadable Design Exhibition

The minor Open Design at WdKA, developed in collaboration with Waag, explores the principle of 'openness' as a parameter for design. The Downloadable Design Exhibition was the first project of this semester.

 

Project

17-11-2013

Open Design minor WdKA

In 2012 a collaboration with the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) in Rotterdam started to develop and realize an Open Design Minor.

 

Article

1-11-2013

Rijksstudio Award - Make your own Masterpiece

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.

 

Article

24-10-2013

Dutch Design Week 2013

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

 

Article

2-10-2013

Start looking forward

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.

 

Article

14-09-2013

Open Design, Japanese style

After two years and three printruns of the book 'Open Design Now', a Japanese edition of the book has been published. A beautifully crafted book, like they only make them in Japan: a paperback with a dustjacket - all in the finest papers.

 

Project

5-09-2013

Dutch Design Week

Waag is a regular guest at the annual Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, with a main focus on the future of healthcare with the Embassy of Health.

 

Article

27-08-2013

Fairphone wins Fontanel Public Award

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.

 

Article

30-07-2013

FAB9 conference in Japan

The annual international meeting of FabLabs, FAB9, was held in Japan this year in Yokohama. FabLabs from all over the world came together to meet each other, to exchange knowledge, participate in special workshops and events, listen to lectures and present their research results.

 

Article

17-07-2013

Open Design Minor started

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

 

Article

25-06-2013

The designer as researcher and visa-versa

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.

 

Article

11-06-2013

Fairphone Design Bootcamp: A Designer’s Perspective

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

 

Article

3-06-2013

Living a year of open source: is it possible?

Through his documentary “Year of Open Source” project, the Berlin-based New Zealand filmmaker Sam Muirhead has set himself the challenge of trying to live as open source as possible for a year: abandoning goods protected with traditional copyright, getting rid of his Apple, discovering Creative Commons films and music, producing clothing with circular knitting machines and parametric designs, creating digitally manufactured furniture and learning to master open hardware and 3D printing.

 

Article

6-05-2013

Visit to the Salone Milan

Alex Schaub visited the Salone at Milan on invitation of Carmine Deganello.

 

Project

16-04-2013

Fairphone Design Challenges

Waag and Fairphone organized a design bootcamp in that focused on the complexities around mobile phone design, production and the supply chain. During three days, design teams worked towards proposals and prototypes for the fair phone of the future.

 

Article

10-04-2013

Fabbing Russia

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.

 

Event

11-03-2013

Presentation Self Building Building

On 21 March 2013 at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam the teams that worked under the name Studio for Unsolicited Architecture, Design & E-Culture will present their research proposals. Alexander Zeh and Karen van der Moolen (Waag) are presenting the results or their reseach 'Self Building Building' in Rotterdam.

 

Article

17-01-2013

Fab the Golden Age

On Saturday, January 12th, our Fablab was all about the Golden Age. Visitors made personal art based on our history and on the work of the old masters.

 

Article

11-12-2012

Open Design Now 100% open

Since 12 December 2012, the contents of the book 'Open Design Now' is for 100% open under a CC-license online.

 

Article

10-12-2012

Connectivity Lab Live event

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.

 

Event

10-12-2012

Fab the Golden Age

What happens if you combine history and future? Discover it during 'Fab the Golden Age'.

 

Event

3-12-2012

Open Design Now 100% open!

One and a half year after the release of the book 'Open Design Now, Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive', the first standard publication in this field, on 12 December 2012 its content will become fully online available on the website opendesignnow.org.

 

Article

20-11-2012

Rijksstudio at the Bijenkorf

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.

 

Event

23-10-2012

Cidade Campus, Guimarães 2012

Marleen Stikker is a keynote speaker at the Cidade Campus in Guimarães on November 3 about "Open Technology". This is an initiative by Smaller Cities for Guimarães 2012, European Capital of Culture. It aims to re-orientate the development of creative city-making with a focus on smaller cities. Cidade Campus- re-imagine the possibility of the city!

 

Event

17-10-2012

Hypercrafting Fashion

During the workshop Hypercrafting Fashion you get the chance to experiment with fashion and shoe design in Waag’s Fablab, where craftmenship and digital production come together.

 

Event

12-10-2012

Design Matters #3 Open Design

Open design is the new industrial revolution. With new digital production techniques like the 3D-printer, consumers can actively particpate in designing and making products. During the theme night Open Design of the event Design Matters, Bas van Abel will speak about new business models for designers.

 

Article

5-10-2012

We're opening the (Un)limited design contest

The (Un)limited Design Contest was an experiment in Open Design.

 

Article

3-09-2012

Fab8 conference

This year Fab8, was held at the Massey University in Wellington New Zealand. The worldwide Fablab community is growing rapidly.

 

Event

28-08-2012

Urban Mining at the Discovery Festival

The Discovery Festival is a night out with content: exciting science experiments, music, art and inspiring new ideas. It's all about the thrill of discovering new things. During the night you can join our Urban Mining workshops, which are part of our project FairPhone.

 

Event

26-07-2012

Join us: Open it

Waag explores opportunities for social innovation. We focus on finding ways to use new technology for a better life. And we prefer to do this together with you. Therefore, in September we swap our workstations in the Waag and Pakhuis de Zwijger for the organic market at the Nieuwmarkt. Visit us, think along, express your voice and participate!

 

Event

26-07-2012

Join us: Risk it

Waag explores opportunities for social innovation. We focus on finding ways to use new technology for a better life. And we prefer to do this together with you. Therefore, in September we swap our workstations in the Waag and Pakhuis de Zwijger for the organic market at the Nieuwmarkt. Visit us, think along, express your voice and participate!

 

Event

5-06-2012

Waag @ PICNIC '12 (Day 1)

PICNIC Festival ’12 will be a two day, international gathering dedicated to exploring the theme “New Ownership: the shift from top down to bottom up”. This theme will be explored through lectures, specials (interactive discussions and debates) and co-creation workshops/labs which focus on developing concepts, prototyping, tinkering and plain, old playing around.

 

Article

23-05-2012

Smart Textiles/ Crafting the future op DEAF2012

During the DEAF 2012 festival, project manager Isjah Koppejan saw some fine examples of the results that you get if you combine traditional textile crafts and modern manufacturing technology.

 

Article

14-05-2012

Booktype workshop at Sandberg Institute

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.

 

Event

8-05-2012

Nova Iskra Open Design seminar

Bas van Abel (Creative director Waag) will visit Design incubator Nova Iskra in Belgrade, Serbia from 9-11 May for an Open Design seminar. Bas van Abel will give a lecture about Open Design and an introduction to Waag. Nova Iskra is Design incubator.

 

Article

7-05-2012

Open Design City at re:publica 2012

On 4 May I gave a keynote at re:publica 2012 in Berlin (co-incidentally on the same time as Neelie Kroes) about Open Design and local (digital) production, titled 'Made in my Backyard'.

 

Article

23-04-2012

Open design in REX

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

 

Event

16-04-2012

Expert Meeting 'Open Sources'

Marleen Stikker of Waag will speak at this occasion on the value of 'sharing' in the design practice.

 

Event

22-03-2012

Open Architecture @ re:publica Berlin

Bas van Abel (Creative Director, Waag) will give a keynote about the impact of 21st century urban industrialization on the relation of our own environment, titled 'Made in my Backyard'.

 

Project

8-03-2012

CRISP Smart Textile Services

Smart Textile Services was about the development of successful methods, platforms, guiding principles and the business models required to understand the multi-disciplinary opportunities and challenges of creating Smart Textile Product Service Systems.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Open Design expo

For an exhibit at the expo of nominees for the Rotterdam design prize at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Open Design Lab of Waag made a collection of quotes and instructions about Open Design.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Hypermud

During the three days of the PICNIC Festival 2011, the NDSM Wharf saw an exceptional sculpture emerge.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Fablab Yogyakarta Indonesia

Fablab Yogyakarta was a collaboration between Waag and the House of Natural Fiber (HONF), Yogyakarta, Indonesia to set up a Fablab in Indonesia.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Open Design Now

The publication Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive examines current developments in the emerging open design movement and looks ahead to its future.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Open Design Contest

The design of products is no longer reserved for professional designers only. With today's computer-driven prototyping machines, anyone can make designs and print them in 3D.

 

Project

8-03-2012

Instructables Restaurant

Instructables Restaurant is the first restaurant in the world where everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from instructables.com.