Luxembourg Design Award
We won the Gold at the Luxembourg Design Awards 2019 in the category Social Design with the project Water Hackers. Congrats to all the people involved in the project so far!
Facts & Figures
Here some FACTS & FIGURES about the project running during the last two years. We are happy to look back at numbers and at engaged hackers! 3 creative toolsavailable online 6 team experts (from multiple domains) 3 exhibitions (in Paris, Ghent and Luxembourg) 3.300 site page views > waterhackers.lu 1 scientific… more
DAMN Magazine
07.01.17 We are happy to be featured on DAMN Magazine, one of the finest newspaper about contemporary design. Kurt Vanbelleghem, the curator of “Water is Design” Expo in Ghent, put a particular emphasis on the social design practice of the project. Have a look! “sustainability should be present in all… more
Luxemburger Wort
22.03.17 Luxemburger Wort interviewed the team for one of their special issue on Water. To sum up the interview: we’re working around the clock to prepare a new platform that will help everyone to learn, hack and visualise water quality!
YouMeWe Festival
07.07.17 Location: Lycée Technique d’Esch-sur-Alzette Participants: 200 Partners: LTE, Science Week (SCRIPT), In the framework of the Science Week 2017, Water Hackers was invited to perform a full-day open workshop at the multidisciplinary festival “YOUMEWE” organised by the Lycée Technique d’Esch-sur-Alzette. The students co-created new rain harvesters to collect water… more
Visit the Labo!
03.04.17 Location : Administration de la gestion de l’eau + LIST Belvaux + NaturMuseé Participants: 18-20 Partners: LIST, AGE, Lycée des Art et Métiers During the morning, a class from the Lycée des Art et Métiers (14-16 years old) had the possibility to visit the headquarter of the Administration de… more
Platform Ideation Workshop
20.04.17 Location: Bamhaus Partners: Internal Meeting The whole group took part in an ideation workshop for the platform. This meeting has the goal to discuss and find interesting ideas for the web platform. We believe that we can find a way to gather important information on water quality via crowdsourcing.… more
Experts Meet-up
On Friday 25. November Benoît Otjacques (LIST) – heads the ICT for environmental monitoring group invited our group to present our project and get introduced us to their work on digital resources for environmental monitoring and visualisation of results. Later, on Friday 16th December Ariane Koenig ( Uni.lu) invited Giacomo Piovan… more
ICT for Sustainability
We already presented the overall idea at the 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) 2016 which took place in Amsterdam at the end of August. See link HERE: During ICT4S, “Watergram” was very well received as it triggered both discussion and exchange of ideas with researchers from the… more
Science Festival 2013
14.10.13 Participants: 200 Visitors: 10.000 Partners: Science Festival, LIST, Natur Musée Water Hackers’ 1st workshop started during the Science Festival in 2013. This was the perfect occasion to collaborate with scientist Christian Penny and create a video of the water situation in Luxembourg. In the framework of the Festival we… more