Lucas Evers
Principal Researcher Art, Science and Society at Waag Futurelab
Lucas Evers is principal researcher Art, Science and Society (KWS) at Waag Futurelab. Lucas joined Waag in April 2007 and formerly lead Waag's Open Wetlab and Make programme (FabLab, TextileLab and Open Wetlab). He is actively involved in several projects that concern the interactions between the arts and sciences, arts and ethics and the arts in a contemporary makers culture.
Lucas Evers is trained as a visual artist and teacher at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.
At Waag he worked and works on projects such as Trust me I'm an Artist (ethics of art and science collaboration), Future Emerging Art and Technologies, Hack the Brain, Do It Together Bio, Critical Making and initiated Designers and Artists for Genomics Award (now Bio Art & Design Award).
His interests lie in the way we can learn from the interactions, the differences and similarities, between artistic, scientific and other cultures of research.