Waag SocietyFrank Kresin / Research Director

institute for art, science & technology

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

Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

www.waag.org

Creative Research

Users as Designers

Miriam Reitenbach miriam@waag.org

Thinking through making

Thinking through making

Thinking through making

Multi-disciplinary teams

Ask

Interpret

Make

Paper prototyping

Testing and evaluating

FairPhone: world’s first FairTrade mobile phone

COPENHAGENLIVINGLAB

Extensive Patnerships

Creative Care LabWet Lab

Open Design Lab

Future Internet Lab

Creative Learning Lab

Urban Reality Lab

Waag Society’s Labs

COMMIT

Waag Society’s Roles

• Linking arts, science & society• Human centered concept development• Facilitating innovation processes:

users as designers• Visualizations, demonstrators & prototypes• Business Model Canvas• Incubating products• Organizing events

Concept developing

Prototyping

…Commercialising

Frank Kresin@waag @kresinwww.waag.org