Tanja van Zoest

Tanja van ZoestProgramme Maker

Tanja van Zoest is a producer and programme maker with Waag's Interface team. Here, she works on all public events of Waag.

Tanja studied Fashion & Design at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), after which she obtained her Master’s degree in Arts & Society at Utrecht University. Here, she studied the relationship between experimental exhibition formats and audience behaviour. Before she joined Waag, Tanja worked as freelance producer and researcher for organisations suchs as Stichting SETUP and Creative Coding Utrecht.

Current projects

Future Internet Lab

CATRIN

Controllable, Accountable, Transparent: the Responsible Internet. Waag is working on a foundation for a new internet to increase trust in the digital world.

Expedition to planet B

Waag embarked on an expedition to planet B in order to design and create a desired future that is open, fair and inclusive.

Future Internet Lab

PublicSpaces

Waag is a co-initiator of the PublicSpaces Foundation, a coalition of now 70 public organisations working together on a digital ecosystem based on public values.

Smart Citizens Lab

NWA Route Smart Liveable Cities

Waag organises the route management around public programmes relating to ‘Smart, liveable cities’, aiming to better connect science with society.

Waag Open

Waag is open on every first Thursday night of the month. Join the experiments, making and discussions in our digital fabrication and biotech labs.

Closed projects

Future Internet Lab

MicroDonor

Healthy internet isn't free. Waag is researching a method for micro-donation to open, fair and inclusive online tools and services.

Mij niet gezien

Until summer, Waag will be experimenting with warranting privacy for participants in our public events.

Gaming for the Commons

Can serious games help us to reimagine our political and economic system? We aim to discover the potential of serious games to help us reclaim the urban commons.

Supre:organism

With Supre:organism, Waag sets out to establish a contemporary artistic understanding of life in outer space.

AI for Society

With AI for Society, Waag wants to contribute to a safe, humane and democratic implementation of AI, in which the interests of citizens are central.