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Radiant Beach
New Order 1/5: Martti Kalliala
The harnessing of the immense power of the atom is one of the great achievements of the 20th century, one that both poses great risks and offers great opportunities. Under the Beach, a Radiant City, an installation by Finnish architect Martti Kalliala, explores a future scenario where the risks of spent nuclear fuel are turned into an opportunity for leisure. Inspired by the afterglow of nuclear waste, Kalliala created an artificially hot beach in Mediamatic FABRIEK, the new gigantic exhibition space of Mediamatic. For ten days of winter you can immerse yourself in the radiance of the thunderbolts of Zeus.
Martti Kalliala (1980) is a Finnish architect based in Helsinki. Currently he is on a tour with a book titled Solution 239-246 Finland: The Welfare Game, he wrote together with Jena Sutela and Tuomas Toivonen. The book proposes a number of cultural, economical and social pragmatic utopian projects for Finland. These projects range from the complete absurd to feasible and serious. One of the projects is based on the fact that Finland wants to build underground nuclear waste disposal plants. In theory these plants will produce an enormous amount of warmth, what if we use this warmth to warm ourselves? Would it be an idea if we use t...
Over Datum Eetclub 21
Uitverkocht!
Tijdens twintig edities van Over Datum Eetclub bereidden eetgasten vorig jaar met steeds weer een andere topkok heerlijke maaltijden van over datum producten. Zembla maakt een reportage over houdbaarheidsdata en voedselverspilling, en Over Datum Eetclub mag daarin natuurlijk niet ontbreken. Daarom organiseerden we een speciale pop-up Over Datum Eetclub.
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Zembla bij de Over Datum Eetclub-
Zembla maakt een reportage over houdbaarheidsdata en voedselverspilling bij de Over Datum Eetclub.
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Het diner
Meer dan 50 gasten kwamen maandagavond mee snijden, koken en eten. Veel was er meegebracht en weinig bleef er over dankzij topkok Tinda van Smoorenburg. Heerlijke hapjes met zelfgemaakte tapenade en smeersels om mee te beginnen. Als hoofdgerecht een pittige Oosterse soep met veel groentes en versgeplukte paddestoelen uit onze kwekerij. Toe een lekkere crumble van over datum fruit.
Schommelclub Party: Push Me Tender
Flirt, dance and play
We celebrated the closing of the Schommelclub with a weekend of partying. Costumes and cotton candy with the whole family on Sunday, but first a performance on Saturday afternoon, and some serious flirting and dancing during Push Me Tender in the evening. Calling all lovers, loners, and globetrotting hepcats - we've had two live bands, an analogue veejay, swingers dating, and an oyster bar.
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Colored walls at the Schommelclub-
Projecting colors and figures on the wall at Schommelclub Feest: Push me tender.
Line-up
Because these cold nights are just simply too chilly to spend alone, we've invited two duo's to perform. Johann (aka Fyoelk) and Hannah (aka Moemlien) are Cotopaxi and improvise with found objects and acoustic instruments. Rik Mölhlmann and Gijs Deddens of Vakantie play live electronic synthesizer music. In between acts deejay Groener Gras provided us with plenty of nice tunes, and analogue veejay Margarita Osipian served up some visual treats. An evening of new music, surreal swinging, and experimental dating.
More information
Doors open at 21.30 and close around 01.00. Entrance is free for Mediamatic...
JolienQR Code in Ministeck
Handcrafted QR codes
Mixing the old with the new, mixing business with pleasure. Making QR Codes in Ministeck is only the first attempt to make these pesky codes physically more attractive.
Always trying to make better connections between the (social) network and the physical, we immediately started our new project. See here the results of our Ministeck meeting. Try the QR Codes with the scanner on your mobile phone, and see for yourself if they work. Want to learn how to make them yourself? Join our workshop on March 8!
Ministeck was invented by Helmut Gottwald in 1965. In the late 1990s it became an independent firm in Germany. If you read German, check out the ...
margaritaMargarita and the Mycelium Factory
My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters
Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked the beginning of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition and the Mycelium Rising project.
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These bio-degradable boxes were grown out of mycelium roots and agricultural waste, with a cute mushroom molded into the side.
In the words of Paul Stamets, 'mushrooms can save the world', and there's no better place to see these world saving powers than in a tucked away industrial area in Green Island, New York. With the goal of replacing everything from petroleum based plastics (like Styrofoam) to particle board (which is made using carcinogenic formaldehyde) with a renewable mycelium based material, Ecovative is harnessing all the world saving possibilities of the mushroom. Eben Bayer, the CEO of Ecovative, took us on a little tour of this rapidly expanding facility.
The Process
Having only seen the finished mycelium based materials, and som...
The Secret Art of Growing Mushrooms
Learn how to make your own wood-based substrate on which to grow Shiitake mushrooms
There are several ways of making substrate (substrate is the growing environment for mushrooms). The three most common methods are with a compost-base, with a sawdust-or wood-chip based mixtures, and using straw. In this workshop we will make a sawdust substrate. You will take your substrate bag home after the workshop, where you can wait to see the mushrooms grow in the comfort of your own home.
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Shiitake in the third stage of the growing process. Photographed in Mediamatic's urban mushroom farm. Part of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition.
What?
30 years ago the white button mushroom was the only mushroom you could find in the supermarket. A lot of things have changed in the meantime, but most people still only eat the white button mushrooms. Getting people to grow and consume all the varieties of mushrooms has been a slow process. This workshop is innovative and exciting because growing your own mushrooms is a new form of agricultural technology.
We begin the workshop by sterilising the sawdust in a pressure cooker to get rid of the existing mold and fungus spores that are often naturally present on the wood. After we cool down the wood chips we add agra-...