Our work
Future Internet Lab
Community: Code for NL
Code for NL began as a Waag project and grew into a vibrant community working together on the digitisation of government.
Waag Futurelab: Reframe the Rules of the Game
For a year, Waag Futurelab researched the workings of systems from the idea: what happens when we change the rules of the game? Read the final publication now.
Space Lab
Essay: Building Planetary Imagery
We need to look at planet Earth in new ways to make the transition to a climate-neutral world. Art can help.
Maker Education Lab
Toolkit: Teacher Maker Camp Cookbook
Each year, Waag organises a four-day Teacher Maker Camp, training teachers in maker education. With this 'cookbook', as a teacher you can get started yourself.
Maker Education Lab
Toolkit: Waag Makerbox
The Waag Makerbox contains all the instructables Waag makes for kids: from tinkering with the 3D printer to DIY bacteria detectors to measure the health of plants.
The Smart citizen walk
On this page, you will find all the information for the Smart citizen walk: the route maps, the viewing, reading and listening list and the conversation cards.
Open Design Lab
Fairphone
At the base of the now globally famous Fairphone, a phone made of sustainable and fair materials, is Waag, where the phone was developed.
Co-creation Lab
Co-creation Navigator
The Co-creation Navigator is a toolkit you can use to shape your co-creation or participation process.
Waag Futurelab: Annual report 2022
Read all about Waag's activities and the impact of its research, Academy programmes and public programme in 2022.
Maker Education Lab
Magazine: Circular Neighbourhood
The magazine where high school students, teachers and makers talk about their experiences with the 'Circular neighbourhood' making project!
Space Lab
Essay: Finding New Planetary Imaginaries and Actions
We are in need of new planetary imaginaries: new ways of communal thinking that allow us to care for the planet and all its entities, including the more-than-human ones. This essay provides an insight of the artistic work-in-progress within the project More-than-Planet.
Smart Citizens Lab
Choosing a plant-based diet in a new food environment
How can creative methods help in the acceptance and design of healthy and sustainable food environments?
Open Design Lab
Open Environmental Sensing Toolkit
The Open Environmental Sensing Toolkit can be used as a guideline for developing open hardware for environmental sensing.
Maker Education Lab
Open Schooling Navigator
The Open Schooling Navigator is a website where you can find inspiring teaching materials for making education beyond school walls.
Open Design Lab
Prosthetic Leg by Fablab Yogyakarta
A cheap and quick solution for prosthetic legs in Indonesia, developed in the Fablab programme and rolled out in Fablab Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Smart Citizens Lab
Amsterdam Sounds Kit
An affordable open source sound sensor for ambient noise, developed by Waag and successfully used in multiple projects.
Smart Citizens Lab
Amsterdecks
Amsterdecks are smart swimming platforms that measure water quality through sensors.
Smart Citizens Lab
Hollandse Luchten sensor kit
View this modular sensor kit, developed by Waag for measuring outdoor air quality as part of our Hollandse Luchten project.
Future Internet Lab
Map: the ages of Dutch buildings
The age of all buildings in the Netherlands have been indexed on this map, developed by Waag within the Smart CitySDK project.
Future Internet Lab
Charging infrastructures and the local government
Ensuring that charging infrastructures for electric vehicles are based on public values such as inclusivity: this is how you can do so as a local government.
TextileLab
Reflow Instructables: Mend your own clothes!
Mend your own clothes! With the instruction videos and manuals by Waag's TextileLab, you'll learn various techniques to close the gaps.
Smart Citizens Lab
The future of food in Amersfoort Schothorst
How to help a community adapt towards healthier food choices? This was researched by Waag in Amersfoort Schothorst.
Future Internet Lab
Exploring Micromemberships
In search of fair and open online revenue models for creatives
Waag: Research Agenda 2022-2024
The Research Agenda is at the foundation of Waag's work. Now available: the updated Research Agenda for 2022-2024.