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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore1Dec 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021
Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!
procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit
You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore28Aug 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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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 Abhay Villa 28 Jun 2021
Shitty Water + Wasabi - Snails = Money
At the Mediamatic Greenhouse, we try to maximise the productivity of the little space we have by growing rare, collectable and valuable crops. All whilst strongly advocating for the advantages of...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore6Oct 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore8Sep 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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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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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore7Jul 2021Did you know that many plants that grow in the city can help to boost your mood and support mental health? In this workshop Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session around Dijkspark and...
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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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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
T - Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore1Jan 4300Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021
From Packaging to Beaver Skin
How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1
The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...
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Shrinking Sustainability
Experimenting with making bioplastic
Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Doubts about Casting Doubt
To what extent can you restore a work before you affect its authenticity?
Casting Doubt is an art project created by Masha Ru and Jasmin Moeller. The open-air project consists of a series of flowerbeds, each with a self-reflective question on the side, formed by pins. By...
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Waew Jeeraphat Voraphotmuangman
Founder of the Waew Food Program
Waew ( Jeeraphat Voraphotmuangman), is a creative artist and chef who aims at combining art and food in order to create powerful experiences and messages for the public. Waew has developed the Waew...
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Fashion Your Sweat
Alice Potts is a biomaterial designer fascinated by sweat. By f ashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our...
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organization:
Bio-Kultura
Bio-Kultura verkoopt drie kwalitatief hoogwaardige producten die geschikt zijn voor elke plant en elk type tuin. Hun biologische potgrond, tuinaarde en mestcompost zijn biologisch gecertificeerd. Ze...
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Clean Lab
The Clean Lab at Mediamatic is a workspace to facilitate the growing requirements of designers and artists who want to expand their work into biological fabrication.
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organization:
Verbruggen Paddestoelen
Verbruggen Paddestoelen B.V. is een echt familiebedrijf. De door Piet Verbruggen opgezette paddenstoelenkwekerij wordt inmiddels al weer vele jaren door zijn zoon John voortgezet.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11Dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?
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Planting the Seed
The history of greenhouses at Mediamatic
Now that the Serres Séparées have gone viral, the small houses and the food that we serve there gets attention from all over the world. But did you know that the greenhouses already played a role at...
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Designing mycelium plant pots
While working with mycelium at Mediamatic we thought about ways to combine mycelium with plants. We chose to experiment on making biodegradable plant pots. When making a positive impact on the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier
Chimera Furniture
Mycelium Experiments
What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life?