waag society overview undp

Waag Society Frank Kresin / Research Director

Ivonne Jansen-Dings / Project Manager

institute for art, science & technology

Collaborations between -  Users -  Designers -  Programmers -  Artists & Scientists

Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

www.waag.org

Miriam Reitenbach miriam@waag.org

Users as Designers

Various User Groups

Thinking by Making

Multi-disciplinairy Teams

Users as designers

‘Once you start drawing or making things, you open up new possibilities of discovery. Doodling, drawing, modelling. Sketch, make things, and you’re likely to encourage accidental discoveries. Tom Kelley (IDEO), the art of innovation

Waag Society Labs

Creative Care Lab Wet Lab

Open Design Lab

Future Internet Lab

Creative Learning Lab

Urban Reality Lab

Location-based mobile applications

Experiment

2002 Amsterdam Realtime World's #1 locationbased realtime user-generated map Waag Society (Tom Demeyer, Aske Hopman) i.s.m. Stadsarchief, Esther Polak, Jeroen Kee

Co-creation In education

2005 Frequentie 1550 World’s #1 Mobile Learning Game Waag Society (Aske Hopman) and KPN, Montessorischool

2009 The Island Trade game New York- Amsterdam Waag Society (Ronald Lenz) and the John Adams Institute

International During events

Scaling Museums cooperate in a mobile tours application

2011 - MuseumApp World’s 1st Mobile Museum tours service

PRINCIPLES The best producer is the actual user

He/she can learn to build (almost) anything Share blueprints & stand on the shoulders of others Making helps us to understand the world we live in

OPEN DESIGN

FABLAB @ WAAG SOCIETY

FABLAB TOOLS

Design for your future self – PICNIC’11

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LemonBow http://www.lemonbow-swimwear.com/

FabFi http://fabfi.fablab.af/

open prosthetics http://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1943

FairPhone: world’s first FairTrade mobile phone

Amsterdam Open Data Open Data in Amsterdam

Amsterdam Open Data Open Data in Amsterdam

•  Data that is free to be used and reused and redistributed by anyone

•  Open Data helps to empower citizens

•  Cities generate lost of data that can be shared (without privacy and security issues)

•  Citizens can use smart services, take (back) control of their own environment and hold government accountable

•  Applications created with open data can increase efficiency, create new insights and generate new data

Amsterdam Open Data

Amsterdam Open Data

•  2 years

•  8 city districst and 10 city deparments

•  6 themes, energy, mobility, vacancy, tourism, safety and democracy

•  3 hackathons

•  22 civil servant meetups

•  26 workshops

•  137 datasets (www.amsterdamopendata.nl)

•  68 apps

Amsterdam Open Data

Amsterdam Open Data

•  Modelled after Code for America

•  Attract experienced developers to work as a fellow

•  Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Manchester, Rome

•  Dedicate a year to work on social issues

•  Share code between cities (Civic Commons)

•  www.codeforeurope.net

Amsterdam Open Data

Amsterdam Open Data

•  Linked open data platform

•  Connects events data, collection data, tourism data

•  Stimulate innovation in arts and tourism sector

•  http://dev.artsholland.com

•  Creating a “Shared Data Store” service

•  Taking back ownership of your data

•  Be able to determine which parts are private and public

•  https://github.com/waagsociety/sds

Amsterdam Open Data

Amsterdam Open Data

•  Smart City Application Ecosystem

•  Open Source Services to be shared between cities

•  Open Source pilots showing the possibilities

•  www.citysdk.eu

Frank Kresin Ivonne Jansen-Dings

@waag @kresin @jansendings www.waag.org