Presentation delivered at FACT in Liverpool in February 2016, but generally suitable to understand where we come from & what we're working on.

1. @kresin / @waag
Art
Science
Technology

4. Heroes

5. • 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/

6. • For self expression
and communication
• Linking people,
groups, communities
• Sharing thoughts,
blueprints, algorithms
• Reflecting &
understanding
And discovering it’s
underlying meaning.
Technology

7. Technology is not Neutral
http://digitalsocial.eu

8. • 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

9. Fablabs, Wetlabs, Maker Spaces
http://fablab.waag.org & https://waag.org/en/lab/open-wetlab

10. More than just a space
Laboratory Workshops
Exhibitions Products
Waag Society - CC-BY-SA 3.0

11. Our DNA
relational
aesthetics*
users as
designers
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

12. Invention - Creation - Innovation
Ideas Needs
Requirements Solutions
Art
Science
Technology
Society
Quest
ion
Pilot
Proto
type
invention
curiosity driven research
creation
context driven research
innovation
transformation research

13. Structure
research
Creative Learning
Creative Care
Future Heritage
Future Internet
Open Design
Open Wetlab
BioHack Academy
Code Power
Fab Academy
FabSchool
Minors
Teacher maker Camp
academy
Bootcamps
Fablab Amsterdam
Festivals
Hacking Heritage
Open Wetlab
Smart Citizens Lab
waag open

14. Society
Open - events
Academy
Multiple Strategies for Impact
Research
spin off
7scenes
spin off
Fairphone
FabCity
Smart
Citizens
Lab

15. 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)

16. 1
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CITIZENS
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17. Creative
Care
Creative
Learning
Future
Heritage
Future
Internet
Open
Design
Open
Wetlab
Research Labs
relevant
emerging
open

18. Open Wetlab
DIY bio
design &
ethics of life
bio-art &
science
hands-on
biolab

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

20. biofactory
hardware
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!
biofactory
hardware
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

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

22. Micro Petshop

23. BioStrike
partners: BrmLab, Hackteria, P2P Foundation, Biotinkering Berlin

24. Open Design Lab
if you can’t
open it, you
don’t own it
open
source,
open
hardware
personal
fabrication
make
almost
anything

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

26. Open Design minor WdKA
partners: Creative Commons NL, Willem de Kooning Academy, Waag Academy

27. Smart Citizens & Making Sense

28. Textile & Clothing Business Labs

29. Fairphone

30. Creative Learning Lab
learning by
making
embodied
learning
playful
learning
citizen
science

31. FabSchool - learning by making
partners: Fablab Nederland, MIT, Stanford University, Rotslab Utrecht

32. CryptoKids
partners: Bits of Freedom, Netwerk Democratie, Creative Learning Lab

33. Platform Maker Education

34. Hack the Brain & BrainHack
partners: Total Active Media, Donders Institute, Universiteit Twente

35. Creative Care Lab
real
needs for
real people
qualified self
DIY cure
and care
design
thinking

36. Make Health & End of Life

37. low cost prosthesis

38. Measuring Less To Feel More
partners: Inreda Diabetic BV, U Twente, U Utrecht, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, CGI, Philips Research

39. Future Heritage Lab
hidden
narratives
physical &
embodied
interfaces
digital born
heritage
social
connected-
ness

40. Heritage & Location
partners: DEN (Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland)

41. 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

42. 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

43. Future Internet Lab
fix the
internet
Internet of
Open Things
Open Data
&
Algoritms
Codifying
Morality

44. dID - your better eID
in opdracht van Logius (Min. Binnenlandse Zaken)

45. Code for NL
partners: Code for America Int., Code for All

46. Smart CitySDK & AMS Data Platform
partners: Gemeente Amsterdam (EZ), Gemeente Amsterdam DIVV, Universiteit Tilburg, FutureEverything

47. BetaLab

49. Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69
1011 HB Amsterdam
waag.org / info@waag.org
Frank Kresin
Research Director
@kresin / frank@waag.org