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We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…
Project Nursery
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
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Arthur Guilleminot - Piss Soap
Penny for your thoughts
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell
Many meanings of curious composting
A possible bokashi exhibition
In case of future plans with the Bokashi, this knowledge page is to provide information about a possible exhibition in the Bokashi space behind the restaurant. It would be a very interesting topic to...
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Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell
Being responsible for Bokashi
and other useful information
The amount of time to give to Bokashi really depends on what is happening at Mediamatic. Is the restaurant open? Is communal lunch happening? What season is it? Being responsible for the Bokashi...
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Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell
Bokashi: Questions to Simon Vos
Frequently asked questions
Here are some questions that have been previously asked so that maybe you don't have to! Simone Vos from agriton has been great for answering questions and is the primary source for understanding the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Josie Dibnah
Embodying Landscapes
In conversation with Philipp Kolmann
Philipp Kolmann (artist, designer, cheese-maker, herdsman) is our current artist in residence, exploring ‘Embodied Landscapes’ as part of the AFK 3Package Deal. His work moves fluidly through diverse...
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David Kerssens Goedhart - Machine No.1
Penny for your thoughts
Een installatie waarbij in een verder lege ruimte met behulp van een machine een wolk vliegen van A naar B wordt begeleid zonder fysiek contact te maken.
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Mandy den Elzen -The essence of the Mastbos
Penny for your thoughts
Het Mastbos, aangelegd in 1515, is het oudste naaldbos van Nederland en ligt ten zuiden van Breda. Het functioneert nog steeds als een productiebos waaraan de innovatieve ideeën over bosbouw van...
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Ketelhuisplein Arne Hendriks, Conny Groenewegen
Get Married with your Living Dress
17Oct 2021- With Arne Hendriks and Conny Groenewegen24Oct 2021Getting married not IN your wedding dress but WITH your wedding dress. During Dutch Design Week, fashion designer Conny Groenewegen puts the finishing touches to a wedding dress made of mycelium in...
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Exhibition Natlab, Baltan Laboratories Paolo Cirio
Extinction Claims
17Oct 2021- By Paolo Cirio30Nov 2021The conceptual artist, Paolo Cirio created an algorithm that computes data of over 40,000 endangered species with data on fossil fuel emissions from major oil, gas, and carbon companies to calculate...
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Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell
Bokashi: How to
Bokashi introduction
At the back of our kitchen you will see we have our big green bokashi bins which we use for the kitchen and communal lunches. Here you will find a more detailed introduction to the process and use...
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Biodiversity Meets Fashion
Amsterdam Fashion Academy x Mediamatic
The city of Amsterdam, a metropolitan with the largest city population in the Netherlands, has always been a center for fashion, music festivals, and diversity. The city is characterized as “slightly...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts
Death is in the air, and you can smell it
The demise of the pigeon towers
While mushrooms emerge, grow, mature and decay, the towers shrink and bend under their own weight. And we keep building. Trying to reach and hold the height of the tower. We feel the need to repair...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Duckweed taste testing 2.0
Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish
Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen as...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Elderflower Champagne 2.0
Popping champagne straight from the garden!
The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L! Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Tasting before wasting
Optimizing our African Catfish feed
My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
7 kilos of Happiness
The ins and outs of weighing our fish
Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
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Narrow-leaved ragwort
Senecio inaequidens
Author: Ekenitr
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Plate 10 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ophiothrix Ophiodea. / Schlangensterne.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 10 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ophiodea: Brittle stars, closely related to starfish. Characterised by a small round like body and five long, thin arms.
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Plate 9 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Maeandrina. / Hexacoralla. Sechsstrahlige…
Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch
Plate 9 from Kunstformen der Natur. Hexacoralla: Subclass of corals, which include sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals.
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Plate 8 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Desmonema. / Discomedusae. Scheibenquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 8 from Kunstformen der Natur. Discomedusae: Subclass of Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
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Plate 7 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Epibulia. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 7 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Plate 6 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Tubuletta. / Tubulariae. Röhrenpolypen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 6 from Kunstformen der Natur. Tubulariae: Genus of Hydroids, animals related to jellyfish and have strong visual similarities to them such as a compact, mostly round body with long strings...
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Plate 5 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ascandra. / Calcispongiae. Kalkschwämme.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 5 from Kunstformen der Natur. Calcispongiae: Marine sponges with c alcareous skeletons