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Japanese Knotweed Season 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Rethinking Japanese Knotweed Through Food
- Japanese Knotweed Gastronomical Summit 202431May 2024Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for being considered a exotic invasive. This year's season explores the...
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Textile Lab Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Re-fashioning Clothing
- with Kristin Maurer and Daniela Tiben25May 2024Love a piece of clothing but it doesn't quite fit anymore? Don't toss it! In this workshop, you'll learn how to transform your old favourites: shorten pants, add a lining to a shirt, or even turn...
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Reading event Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Sluisdeurenloods, Mediamatic Biotoop
Mater Presents: Reading Material
- A reading event with artists Amanda Pinatih and Musoke Nalwoga during Mater exhibition30Mar 2024As part of the exhibition ' The Metamorphosis of Matter ', Mater has comissioned two new pieces of writing by Amanda Pinatih and Musoke Nalwoga. Join us at Mediamatic to hear these texts read...
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Janneke de Lange
Designer
Janneke de Lange is a designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work " FRUITURE NURSERY" will be displayed at Mediamatic during Japanese Knotweed Festival 2024.
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Blog Sophie Conroy
Welcome?
A blog series by Sophie Conroy #1
Welcoming is a radical act. Whether we are welcoming friends, family, or even ourselves, true welcome relies on genuine trust, acceptance, and vulnerability. When it comes to welcoming the unknown, a...
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Textile Lab: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Visible Mending
- with Bronwen Jones25May 2024Come and learn the art of darning, a time-tested technique for repairing holes in your favourite garments. Bronwen practices this technique visibly as a way to reclaim and celebrate our beloved...
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Program April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Dorian de Rijk
Artist/Curator
A Master's graduate from the Film Academy in 2016, Dorian clinched the AHK Eindwerkprijs with her graduation film "Valerius." Since then, she has delved into various film and social design projects.
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker: Vera Lelie
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Vera Lelie is open...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker: Yvonne Dröge Wendel
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Yvonne Dröge Wendel...
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Clemens Tomlow
Designer, Lap Lab supervisor
Clemens Tomlow is an alumni from Design Academy Eindhoven. Interested in the world of textiles and storytelling, he mainly works as an artist / costume designer but sees himself as an...
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Across the Multiverse
Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future
Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando22Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando30Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando29Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando15Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando23Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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373 words to insult a plant
In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad
Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
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Understanding Japanese knotweed
In conversation with Virgile Durando
Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando14Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Harvesting Knotweed Responsibly
Please prevent unintended spreading of knotweed
Japanese Knotweed is a hyper-local resource in the Netherlands, and a wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. However, it is important to approach harvesting with caution...