@kresin / @waag

ArtScience

Technology

Heroes

• Institute for Art, Science & Technology

• Since 1994, 50 Staff, based in Amsterdam

• Artistic research, critical design & social innovation

• Exploring emergent technologies & opening them up

Waag Society

http://www.waag.org/

• For self expression and communication

• Linking people, groups, communities

• Sharing thoughts, blueprints, algorithms

• Reflecting & understanding

And discovering it’sunderlying meaning.

Technology

Technology is not Neutral

http://digitalsocial.eu

• Making is crucial to understand and act in our world

• Best producer is the user

• (S)he can learn to make (almost) anything

• Sharing knowledge is the key to innovation

Maker Ethics

Fablabs, Wetlabs, Maker Spaces

http://fablab.waag.org & https://waag.org/en/lab/open-wetlab

More than just a space

Laboratory Workshops

Exhibitions Products

Waag Society - CC-BY-SA 3.0

Our DNA

relational aesthetics*

users asdesigners

code =

culture

learning by making

critical design if you can’t

open it, you don’t own it

*a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space Nicholas Bourriaud

Invention - Creation - Innovation

Ideas Needs

Requirements Solutions

ArtScience

TechnologySociety

Que

stion

Pilot

Prototype

inventioncuriosity driven research

creationcontext driven research

innovationtransformation research

Structure

research

Creative LearningCreative Care

Future HeritageFuture InternetOpen DesignOpen Wetlab

BioHack AcademyCode Power

Fab Academy FabSchool

MinorsTeacher maker Camp

academy

BootcampsFablab Amsterdam

FestivalsHacking Heritage

Open WetlabSmart Citizens Lab

waag open

Society

Open - events

Academy

Multiple Strategies for Impact

Research

spin off7scenes

spin offFairphone

FabCity

Smart Citizens

Lab

Participation in EU-programs• CitySDK: linked open data and city service desks• COLLAGE: support learning environments• DecarboNet: reduction CO2• ECLECTIS: design • Europeana Space: reuse of cultural content• FASC: art-science collaboration• meSch: new narratives in heritage• Apps for Europe: open data and social impact• GRAGE: aging in Europa• FET-ART/ICT & Art Connect• RICHES: co-creation with musea and archives• KiiCS: stimulating collaboration between art & science • Commons4EU/Code for Europe: fellowships • Digital Social Innovation: research network effect• Textile and Clothing business labs: innovation in fashion• VETLICAT: new models for practice based research • WEAVE: new alliances between heritage and craft• Making Sense: participatory sensing• BrainHack: Artful Advances in BCI interfacing• FEAT: Future & Emerging Art & Technologies (Pandora’s Box)

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AMSTERDAM SMART CITIZENS LAB

LAURENCE HENRIQUEZ NATASHA DE SENAFRANK KRESIN

TOWARDS COMMUNITY DRIVEN DATA COLLECTIONA PUBLICATION BY WAAG SOCIETY & AMS INSTITUTE

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Creative Care

Creative Learning

Future Heritage

Future Internet

OpenDesign

OpenWetlab

Research Labs

relevant

emerging

open

Open Wetlab

DIY biodesign &

ethics of life

bio-art & science

hands-on biolab

BioHack Academypartners: KiiCS, DIYBio.org, Open Wetlab, Jennifer Willet and Artists-in-Residence

biofactoryhardware

take one!tear off

HOW TO

DIY magnetic stirrer

Want to shake things up with your pet? Want to mix them up them a nice, new home?

No worries! We’ve got the perfect solution for you: our DIY magnetic stirrer. With this magnetic stirrer, you’ll be able to mix fluid samples—like media for growing bacteria!

On the next page, you’ll find the URL to assemble the incubator and a schematic. If you don’t quite get it, sign up for the Biohack Academy and learn with us!

biofactoryhardware

take one!tear off

HOW TO

DIY Microscope

Feeling the distance between you and your new, tiny pet? Want to catch a closer glimpse of their microscopic majesty?

No worries! We’ve got the perfect solution for you: our DIY, webcam microscope. With this microscope, you’ll be able to see close-up images of your pet on your computer.

On the next page, you’ll find the URL to assemble the microscope and a schematic. If you don’t quite get it, sign up for the Biohack Academy and learn with us!

Wetlab Instructables

Trust me, I’m an Artistpartners: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, The Arts Catalyst, Ciant, Kapelica Gallery, Medical Museion

Micro Petshop

BioStrikepartners: BrmLab, Hackteria, P2P Foundation, Biotinkering Berlin

Open Design Lab

if you can’t open it, you don’t own it

open source, open

hardware

personal fabrication

make almost

anything

Fablab Amsterdam / Fab Academypartners: MIT Centre for Bits & Atoms, St. FabLab NL, Fab Academy

Open Design minor WdKApartners: Creative Commons NL, Willem de Kooning Academy, Waag Academy

Smart Citizens & Making Sense

Textile & Clothing Business Labs

Fairphone

Creative Learning Lab

learning by making

embodied learning

playful learning

citizen science

FabSchool - learning by makingpartners: Fablab Nederland, MIT, Stanford University, Rotslab Utrecht

CryptoKidspartners: Bits of Freedom, Netwerk Democratie, Creative Learning Lab

Platform Maker Education

Hack the Brain & BrainHackpartners: Total Active Media, Donders Institute, Universiteit Twente

Creative Care Lab

real needs for

real people

qualified self

DIY cure and care

design thinking

Make Health & End of Life

low cost prosthesis

Measuring Less To Feel Morepartners: Inreda Diabetic BV, U Twente, U Utrecht, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, CGI, Philips Research

Future Heritage Lab

hidden narratives

physical & embodied interfaces

digital born heritage

social connected-

ness

Heritage & Locationpartners: DEN (Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland)

RICHES - Co-creation in Museapartners: Coventry University, Hansestadt Rostock, Rijksmuseum v. Volkenkunde, University of Exeter, Promoter Srl, i2cat, Syddansk Universitet, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism

MeSch - new interfacespartners: Sheffield Hallam University, University of Limerick, University of Strathclyde, eCTRL Solutions, Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, University of Stuttgart, University Carlos III Madrid, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Allard Pierson Museum, Museon, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Future Internet Lab

fix the internet

Internet of Open Things

Open Data &

Algoritms

Codifying Morality

dID - your better eIDin opdracht van Logius (Min. Binnenlandse Zaken)

Code for NLpartners: Code for America Int., Code for All

Smart CitySDK & AMS Data Platformpartners: Gemeente Amsterdam (EZ), Gemeente Amsterdam DIVV, Universiteit Tilburg, FutureEverything

BetaLab

Sint Antoniesbreestraat 691011 HB Amsterdam

waag.org / info@waag.org

Frank KresinResearch Director@kresin / frank@waag.org