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Mediamatic Biotoop 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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Mediamatic Biotoop 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 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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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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Living Labs:
Clean Lab
A biological fabrication workspace
The Clean Lab is a 100 square meter unique airlocked space, dedicated to microbiology, providing a sterile environment for working with sensitive organisms. Beyond biomaterials, (inter)national...
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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
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 Andy Cartier
Chimera Furniture
Mycelium Experiments
What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol
What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…
Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Values for Survival
- Presentation of the first results within the complementary research program of the Dutch contribution to the 17th Architecture Biennale of Venice14Jul 2020In these strange times, in which our daily life has changed radically, it has become clear that we must jointly look for new ways and values to shape our lives. In Values for Survival, the social and...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie
Ins & Outs / Do's & Dont's
We are building a Pigeon Tower #1
In this blog series we will share the findings we have discovered after every workshop. There will be many questions found here regarding the process of building the tower both from us and those who...
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Venue Mediamatic Biotoop
Weddings
A place for happiness. Getting married in your own way
Weddings are times of joy and happiness. There is no better way to start a life together than at Mediamatic, where creativity and uniqueness are put on a pedestal. Our venue offers a beautiful...
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Bibliography
Here you find a collection of books and images used as sources for the Myco-Assemblage
Shelter – Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton (1973)
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Mycelium Pigeon Towers
Collection of Design Research Questions
Is mycelium waste from the oyster mushroom industry an effective material to build with? Can we build structures to house Amsterdams feral pigeons? Do pigeons accept a mycelium structure as a place...
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Agne Buciunaite
Aroma Lab Assistant
My name is Agne! In the beautiful city of Amsterdam I am working on various projects in Aroma Lab
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Parfums Funèbres
- Odorama 38: Olfactory Rituals of Death with Frank Bloem, Susanne Duijvestein, Steffie Baaijens, Caro Verbeek and Josely Carvalho25Jun 2020Death smells, and fragrances have always played an essential role in rituals surrounding the death. By means of historical, contemporary, and religious examples, we want to explore the relation...
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Venue Mediamatic Biotoop
Funeral Service
a special space for a final goodbye
All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Foraging Food
with Leoniek Bontje
There is a lot more to gain from the city than we realize. Food is not only in the supermarket, but is also growing in our immediate environment. Learn to recognize edible wild plants, get...
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Pum Dunbar
Architect van de afbeelding
"I believe the art making process is the product of our human organic intelligence, it is therefore both emotional and imaginative and most essentially it is communicative" - Pum Dunbar, 2011