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Open Design Lab
Exploring the role of AI in the cultural and creative sectors
We invite professionals working in the cultural and creative sectors to share their experiences, concerns, and reflections in a short survey.
google maps
Sander van der Waal in EenVandaag over Google Maps
Since Google controls how routes are calculated and where location pins are placed, the company holds siginificant influence over local businesses, residential traffic, and traffic situations. In EenVandaag, we explain why this is a problem.
TextileLab
A celebration of 10 years of Waag’s TextileLab
Waags TextileLab is celebrating its 10th anniversary! This is celebrated with the exhibition Chromatic Relations.
Local colors
Rediscovering Colors in the City
What if our plants interacted with birds, bees, and simultaneously contributed to something essential, like textiles? A conversation on natural dyes and local production with Cecilia Raspanti.
elections 2025
Our input for the election manifestos: four suggestions for policy on digitisation
Together with PublicSpaces and Commons Network, we are sending a letter to political parties with four text suggestions for their policies on digitisation in their election manifestos.
Week of Participation
Waag Futurelab hosts special programme on digital inclusion
How can we make the digital world more accessible? Waag Futurelab and De Omslag are organising Participation Week from 6 to 9 October, which will focus on this question.
Urban Ecology Lab
Designing Regenerative Technologies: The Demonstrator
If we want to stay within the planet's limits, we need to change our relationship with the planet and technology. Waags Demonstrator shows how ecological awareness and digital creativity can intersect.
artificial intelligence
Marleen Stikker talks AI on NPO Radio 1
On Monday morning, 30 June, Marleen Stikker joined the NPO Radio 1 studio to discuss the biography of Sam Altman, the creator and co-founder of OpenAI. What ideology drives the development of AI?
artificial intelligence
By regulating AI we can prevent harm
Last week, 44 CEOs of big tech companies sent an urgent letter to the European Commission, requesting a two-year delay in the implementation of the AI Act. Is this wise? Marleen Stikker responds.
textilelab
Het Parool highlights Waag Futurelab's sustainable textile research in Amsterdam
On 24 June 2025, an article appeared in Het Parool about Waag Futurelab's research into textile production, written by journalist-in-residence Anna Roos van Wijngaarden.
Smart Citizens Lab
Hollandse Luchten receives honourable mention in the European Union Prize for Citizen Science 2025!
This prestigious prize is awarded annually to the most outstanding citizen science initiatives for their social and political impact on the development of a diverse, inclusive and sustainable society in Europe.
thenextsocials
Waag Futurelab, Mentaal.nl and PublicSpaces launch TheNextSocials
Together with Mentaal.nl and PublicSpaces, Waag Futurelab launches TheNextSocials: a growing movement of people and organisations building social media that is truly social.
grip on our tech
Re-watch the State of the Internet 2025 with Marleen Stikker
During the State of the Internet, Waag Futurelab gauges the state the internet is in each year. In this 30th anniversary year of Waag, the lecture was given by none other than our founder and director Marleen Stikker.
fabricademy 2025
Listening differently through textile practices
De afgestudeerden van Fabricademy Amsterdam van dit jaar hebben ons laten zien hoe textielpraktijken ons helpen om anders te luisteren.
FabLab
Fab Academy 2026: pre-register for next year!
Learn how to make (almost) anything - in twenty weeks! The pre-registration phase for this worldwide renowned digital fabrication education trajectory at Waag has started.
Cabinet: prioritise the constitutional state, our freedom and digital autonomy
The cabinet has lost its majority. Together with Bits of Freedom, SETUP and PublicSpaces, Waag calls on the new cabinet to focus on digital autonomy and strengthening our democracy.
Berenschot x Waag Futurelab
Digital security biggest concern with increasing use of AI
According to the AI Trend Report 2025 by Berenschot in collaboration with Waag Futurelab. Read Waag's reflection on the results.
Maker Education Lab
Democracy? Will this count towards my grade?
How to create a setting in the classroom to discuss democracy.
call for democratic tech
Call: government, invest in a democratic fund!
Together with Commons Network, Bits of Freedom, PublicSpaces and SETUP, Waag calls on the Dutch government to invest in democratic technology now.
Waag Futurelab: Annual report 2024
Waag Futurelab publishes its 2024 annual report: read all about Waag's activities and the impact of Waag's research, Academy programmes and public programme in 2024.
Urban Ecology Lab
Waag Futurelab starts in May 2025 as Zoöp
As a Zoöp, Waag will make the interests of people as well as other living beings explicit in questioning technology and designing alternatives based on public values.
future internet lab
Application Masterclass Net Politics started
Course for (future) decision makers in the information society with current topics, practical tools and relevant speakers.
Smart Citizens Lab
Organise an activity during the National Citizen Science Expo
The very first National Citizen Science Expo will take place on 2 October: Knowledge Making is the event for everyone involved in citizen science. Want to share your knowledge or experiences? Submit your activity and join the expo!
Smart Citizens Lab
Citizens develop an AI-tool with Waag and UvA
Waag Futurelab and computer scientists from the UvA invited IJmond residents to work together to design an AI-tool to help residents spot suspicious smoke clouds.