Better Factory provided methodology and opportunities for European manufacturers to collaborate with artists at developing new and personalized products. The project also provided technology for companies to become fully connected cyber-physical systems, transforming them into lean and agile production facilities capable of manufacturing new and personalized products alongside existing products.
Better Factory was part of the European S+T+ARTS initiative, bridging science, technologies and the arts in creative and critical confrontations with societal challenges and global concerns. This project supported manufacturers to invent through creative challenges, with artists contributing out-of-the-box perspectives on emerging technologies and new products.
Within the project, Waag developed a co-creation space for companies, technology providers and artists to collaborate in developing new products and services. Main part of that effort was the support and mentoring of these collaborations through overcoming knowledge gaps and providing required skills as well as learning and sharing these experiences with the public.
