Research director Frank Kresin and Open Data projectmanager Ivonne Jansen-Dings

1. Waag Society
Frank Kresin / Research Director
Ivonne Jansen-Dings / Project Manager
institute for art, science & technology

3. Collaborations between
- Users
- Designers
- Programmers
- Artists & Scientists
Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

4. www.waag.org

6. Miriam Reitenbach miriam@waag.org

7. Users as Designers

8. Various User
Groups

9. Thinking by Making

10. Multi-disciplinairy Teams

11. Users as designers

14. ‘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

18. Waag Society Labs
Creative Learning Lab
Open Design Lab
Urban Reality Lab
Future Internet Lab
Wet Lab
Creative Care Lab

19. Location-based mobile
applications

20. 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

21. Co-creation
In education
International
During events
2005 Frequentie 1550
2009 The Island
World’s #1 Mobile Learning Game
Trade game New York- Amsterdam
Waag Society (Aske Hopman) and Waag Society (Ronald Lenz) and the
KPN, Montessorischool
John Adams Institute

22. Scaling
Museums cooperate in a mobile tours application
2011 - MuseumApp
World’s 1st Mobile Museum tours
service

23. 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

24. OPEN DESIGN
FABLAB @ WAAG SOCIETY

25. FABLAB TOOLS

29. Design for your future self – PICNIC’11

30. • q
LemonBow
http://www.lemonbow-swimwear.com/

31. FabFi
http://fabfi.fablab.af/

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

34. FairPhone: world’s first FairTrade mobile phone

35. Amsterdam Open Data
Open Data in Amsterdam

36. 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

37. Amsterdam Open Data

38. 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

39. Amsterdam Open Data

40. 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

41. Amsterdam Open Data

42. 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

44. • 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

45. Amsterdam Open Data

46. Amsterdam Open Data
• Smart City Application Ecosystem
• Open Source Services to be shared between cities
• Open Source pilots showing the possibilities
• www.citysdk.eu

47. Frank Kresin
Ivonne Jansen-Dings
@waag @kresin @jansendings
www.waag.org