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Technology is not neutral. Waag Futurelab reinforces critical reflection on technology, develops technological and social design skills, and encourages social innovation. Waag Futurelab is a public research and cultural organisation that works with a trans-disciplinary team of researchers, designers, artists and scientists, utilising public research methods such as co-creation, Public Stack, art-science, critical making in the realms of technology and society. It comprises of three pillars: Research, Event, and Academy. There are 12 research labs such as Open Design Lab, Fab Lab, Space Lab, Commons Lab, and Future Internet Lab.
Using methodologies from the Public Stack, critical making, co-creation, and other creative approaches, Waag collaborates with stakeholders to explore a range of AI and Generative AI concerns—particularly ethical, cultural, societal, and technological—as foundations for the design and development of the HAMLET framework. These concerns are then translated into stakeholder needs and requirements. They will also be integrated into the AI ethics impact evaluation framework and its recommendations.
HAMLET Virtual Living Lab is established as a co-creation and co-design area, with a collaborative and open-innovation ecosystem for all engaged stakeholders to exchange information along the creative as well as development process. Within this context, Waag will organise 4 artistic interventions “Trust Me, I’m an AI/rtist” challenging ethics and concerns that apply to these technologies.
Meet the Team
Miha Turšič
Collaborative Research & Innovation expert
Miha focuses on international collaboration and initiates projects that explore themes such as art-science, space art and culture, planetarity, biotechnology, digital fabrication, and open-source hardware. As part of the European S+T+ARTS collaboration, Miha works at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts, specializing in research and methodology of collaborative innovation. His key Waag projects are OpenNext (community and concern-driven innovation through open-source hardware), and VOJEXT and Better Factory (collaboration between artists, technologists, and industry). He also serves as the initiator and coordinator of the More-than-Planet European project.
Lucas Evers
Head of Programme of Make research group
Lucas Evers is Head of Programme of Make research group, home to the Art-Science and Open Design approach and developing research with the Fablab, TextileLab, Open Wet Lab and Space Lab. At Waag Futurelab he has worked on projects such as Trust me I’m an Artist, Future Emerging Art and Technologies, Hack the Brain, Do It Together Bio, Critical Making, S+T+ARTS, Bio Commons. He studied at Maastricht Institute of Arts and studied political science at University of Amsterdam.
Zoénie Liwen Deng
Concept and Project Developer
Zoénie’s research interests include critical art with the digital, ethical ways to relate to and matter with more-than-human including machines, planetary imaginaries, feminist and decolonial praxis-theories in arts-science-technology. She graduated as PhD from University of Amsterdam in 2020, and her doctoral research focused on non-oppositional criticality of socially engaged art. She has worked on Horizon Europe projects such as Artsformation (arts in making digital transformation more just and fairer), and Creative Europe projects such as More-than-Planet (arts-science-technology in making concern and care-driven planetary imaginaries).
Natalia Vargas
Project Manager
Natalia is a project manager of Make Programme, managing European projects and coordinating with consortia partners. She has worked on Horizon Europe projects such as VOJEXT and Better Factory, and she is working on S+T+ARTS projects and together with Miha Turšič, she coordinates the Creative Europe project More-than-Planet. Natalia is interested in the way things work: how does a city work, how does a team work, how do we work? She is also fond of and engaged in art and performance (singing, dancing and theatre).
Funded by the European Union [GA 101178362]. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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