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In this blog series Hidde Kamst examines different ways of using technology in cities, and the corresponding roles these imply for citizens.

 

Laura Muth tells about her current research into different kinds of leather during her internship at our TextileLab.

 

Twenty-five years since the rise of the internet, we find ourselves again at a crossroads, states our Public Research agenda for 2019.

 

Where are we currently in the GammaSense project? In what ways can we measure radiation? And the results of an online survey.

 

Ista Boszhard took part in a roundtable discussion during the Budapest Central European Fashion Week.

 

We played Mind the Gap - a role-play game, designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.

 

In the context of the Waag foundation repair, research on the construction history of the building was carried out, resulting in a detailed report.

 

Marleen Stikker of Waag is one of the speakers at 'De Staat van Nederland 2018' (The State of the Netherlands) on 2 October at Expertisecentrum Journalistiek in Amsterdam.

 

Matérialités Futures is a course at EnsAD during which students will learn about biofabricating dyes and materials from TextileLab Amsterdam.

 

Will the miniaturization of biotechnology and the merger with electronics bring biotech into our pockets, mobile phones or body? For two full days, a group of hackers will try to get a glimpse of this future by stretching the boundaries of the current state of art.

 

Op 6 juli vindt het event ‘The Future of the Internet’ van ISOC NL plaats bij Waag. Doel van deze avond is het in kaart brengen van verschillende toekomstscenario’s van het internet. En iedereen mag daarover ideeën bijdrage.

 

Pieter van Boheemen and intern Iris de Vries will give a DIY participative workshop 'Hack your food' at the FOOD 2030 Conference in Brussels on 12 October 2016.

 

To bridge the gap between policy labs, EU policy makers, and public authorities from the Member States, the EU Policy Lab of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre is organising Lab Connections, a gathering of policy labs from across Europe.

 

On the 28 September 2016 in Brussels, the European Commission jointly with the Parlamentarium (European Parliament) is organising a European Researchers' Night event.

 

At the national event 'The Big Future of Data' COMMIT/ presents fifty demos with groundbreaking research with the latest in big data science at the visual demo market. How are these scientific results applicable in today’s society? And what will be the economic impact?

 

Lucas Evers (Open Wetlab) of Waag has contributed to a new publication of COGEM titled 'Gentechdebat op scherp'.

 

To further aid the bottom-up maker education movement in The Netherlands, research is of importance. Commissioned by Platform Maker Education, two partner research groups have conducted a survey of maker education in the Dutch context.

 

We welcome fashion and textile enthusiasts to celebrate the official opening of the TextileLab Amsterdam with us. A place were we will share, question, innovate, hack, make, and meet; and where we experiment with craftsmanship, technology and digital fabrication for the textile and clothing industry.

 

The Science Journal app taps into all the various sensors in a mobile device or connected Arduino tools to record data and test hypotheses about the physical environment.

 

Hanke Nijman studied our project Smart Citizen Kit and graduated cum laude. She translated her conclusions in six lessons when setting up smart city projects.

 

Sabine Wildevuur of Waag's Creative Care Lab has, together with Lianne Simonse, written a paper called "Information and Communication Technology–Enabled Person-Centered Care for the “Big Five” Chronic Conditions", published by JMIR Publications.

 

Waag is one of the partners within the COMMIT research programme. The research results will be presented in the form of so-called Golden Demos, on 2 October at the 'The big future of data'-event that will be held for a wide audience at the location TrouwAmsterdam.

 

We are currently busy with the development of 'Whiskers': objects that remotely connect people in a playful way. We think these means of communication can play a role in the future care of the elderly.

 

Waag's Creative Learning Lab (CLL) has published a trend report 2014. This publication (in Dutch) is the first report and carries the theme 'DIY and making in education'.

 

After some successful open data contests, it was time to develop our own app with open data, following our own ‘users as designers’ methodology.

 

AMS is a new Amsterdam based public-private institute where talent is educated and engineers, designers, digital engineers and natural/social scientists jointly develop and valorise interdisciplinary metropolitan solutions.

 

The Centre of Expertise of the HAN University of Applied Sciences (HAN) and Waag's Creative Learning Lab have started a cooperation from a shared vision on the future of education and learning.

 

In four sessions (two workshops with patients, and two with professionals) on two locations (Enschede and Amsterdam), we conducted user research on which elements are playing an important role of trusted healthcare services.

 

To be honest, I had not heard of it before, but 14 November (last Thursday) was actually World Usability Day. One of its messages: "Human error is a misnomer - we don’t have to put up with products and services that don’t work well".

 

What if... you could capture your happiest moments for those moments your really need them most? On Thursday 14 March 2013, Waag was 'hacked' by happiness’.

 

On the 23rd of January 2013, the book Witnessing You, On Trust and Truth in a Networked World, was launched in de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. The book presents the artistic research by 13 artists. This artistic research is fundamental to the unique interdisciplinary research programme Participatory Systems Initiative at TU Delft.

 

The Selemca group of CRISP has just received her flagship piece of hardware, the Alice Robokind robot designed by Hanson Robotics.

 

Selemca is a project within the framework of Crisp, short for Creative Industry Scientific Programme. For Selemca we are concerned with the development of a Care droid. The aim of this droid is to support both those in need of care as well as care providers.

 

It is not always easy to express yourselve if someone asks you how you're doing. Often we just say ‘Everything is OK’. Sometimes it seems as if we do not want to bother explaining everything. The fact is that articulating a feeling or a state of mind is extremely difficult. If there was a way in which another person could experience what you feel, an explanation would no longer be required. In the pilot 'Play', which falls within the project 'Virtual Worlds for Wellbeing' of COMMIT, we develop an application that will do exactly that. Within this project Waag is developing an environment that encourages ‘embodied learning' and that stimulates young people in a fun way to work on their social and emotional development.

 

In 2012 the project Game Research for Training and Education (GATE) was completed and the results were published. To inform and inspire policy makers and decision makers of various fields, we organized a GATE education meeting on Thursday, April 19 in cooperation with TNO and the HKU. As a representative from the Creative Learning Lab, I was responsible for hosting a master class. This meeting took place at the Faculty of Arts, Media and Technology at the HKU in Hilversum.

 

On 20 and 21 March 2012 we started the COMMIT research programme. This blogpost is only available in Dutch.

 

The COMMIT program brings together leading researchers in search engines, parallel computing, databases, interaction in context, embedded systems and knowledge technology.

 

A study to identify the needs among older people for new services supporting independent living at home.

 

In September 2008, Waag made a video for the City of Amsterdam about a possible future integrated transport system, called the Personal Travel Assistant.

 

Under the name 'Tactical Media Network' (TMN) a number of activities were initiated from the Waag in 1997.

 

The Digital City (De Digitale Stad, DDS) started on 15 January 1994 as a freenet initiative in Amsterdam.