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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Smell, Memory and Dementia
8Jun 2017Scents are excellent keys to open doors and hatches in our memory. Even for people with dementia, scents can trigger youth memories. How do you bring back the memories of people that suffer...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent and well-being
4أيار / مايو 2017Hippocrates taught his students to be ‘men with open noses’ in order to recognise and cure diseases. There is a reason that the plants we find most fragrant turn out to be strong antibacterial and...
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Klara Ravat
The Aroma Lab
23Jun 20171Oct 2017We’re presenting the latest addition to Mediamatic’s Biotoop: The Aroma Lab. This a work station in which scent distillation is put into practice. The DIY olfactory lab has originally been set up by...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent as Storyteller
2Feb 2017Calliope Tsoupaki, Martina Florians and Tanja Deurloo, three scent geeks, gather on the crossroad of the different ways that scents connect to memories, connotations and emotions. They started their...
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Lauryn Mannigel
Lauryn Mannigel, based in Berlin, works as an artist, curator, and researcher at the intersection of art informed by the humanities and the sciences. She received her M.A. in Contemporary Art and...
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Spyros Drosopoulos
Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...
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Niklaus Mettler
Perfumer, Art director and Aroma Lab Team
Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...
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Odorama
Olfactory art, Research and Design
Whether derived from nature or chemically constructed, odourant molecules have the ability to profoundly affect our behavior, emotions, and associations. At Odorama we will actively engage with our...
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Pavèl van Houten
Pavèl van Houten is a visual artist with a great interest in the mystique of scientific research. In his projects, he studies methods with which people make the world logical or meaningful. According...
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Marjolijn Boterenbrood
Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a multidisciplinary artist whose works primarily revolve around the concepts of space and places through sensory impressions. Boterenbrood works through these subjects to...
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Lotte Geeven
Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist whose works revolve around human connections to the sublime and intangible aspects of our natural surroundings, such as that of the sea and the earth. Therefore
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Martine Albitrouw-Segijn
Artist, Open Aroma Lab for Kids
Martine has a great interest, great love for odours, smells form nature, anything smelly that appeals to her. She is helping run Open Aroma Lab for Kids.