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  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cherry Pear Marathon

    10
    Aug 2013
    - Redesigning broken chairs

    Do you still sit on your broken chair? You could have brought it to Mediamatic before the 10th to give it a second chance. A group of twelve Latin American designers gave broken chairs a new identity...
  • Aesthetics
  • Do it Yourself
  • Design
  • Form
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
  • workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...
  • A performative book presentation about giving and taking space: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    house

    16
    أيار / مايو 2025
    - Rosa Vrij

    house , a publication, represents the culmination of Rosa Vrij's artistic and personal research over many years, focusing on the themes of giving and taking space , bundled in a publication . The...

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Mending with Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    How can you mend something broken into something even more beautiful? Kintsugi is a centuries old craftsmen's reparation technique where the cracks of a broken ceramic vessel are filled with Urushi

  • A night in the Round Rest

    In the middle of the Favela

    Spend a night in a round bed. The Round Rest is standing in a greenhouse, at the centre of the Freezing Favela , a temporary settlement in Mediamatic. There are all kinds of art projects in the big...

  • Trash Lab

    In the Trash Lab we gave a new life to materials that were regarded as waste. Using our design expertise we experimented and researched how we could transform these “trash” materials into new design...
  • Old Information Barbara Revelli

    Sustainable materials

    Every first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bernotat&Co

    Radiolaria

    1
    Oct 2014
    1
    Jul 2026
    - by Bernotat&Co Design Studio

    A series of eleven lamps made of 3D-knitted textile with glow-in-the-dark effect, inspired by microscopic organisms and the phenomenon of bioluminescence. When the light is switched off, the...
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    18
    أيار / مايو 2025
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore the...
  • Tasting Stand: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation Bar

    16
    أيار / مايو 2025
    - TestTafel

    TestTafel is Mediamatic's new pop up restaurant partner! Eager to collaborate with us in the future, they'll be participating in our opening evening. 
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eve Merriel Hurst

    Psychosoma

    7
    Mar 2025
    7
    Jun 2025
    - Eve Merriel Hurst

    This sensory fountain creates a space for vital conversations around psychosomatic health: conditions that affect both the body and mind. Western healthcare is largely based on the belief that the...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Megan Bishop

    Wood-Fired Clay Oven

    6
    Aug 2015
    - Mediamatic Eten

    Hand-made over two days, using environmentally friendly methods and materials, the clay oven stands as a central feature of the Mediamatic ETEN restaurant.

  • Chewellery

    What happens if jewelry designers get their hands on chewing gum?

    While Ted Noten emphasizes the act of chewing and is convinced that our mouth is also capable of creating art. Corrina Goutos finds an innovative technique to use this atypical material for jewellery.
  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Hairdresser

    Swap a haircut

    At the swapping-hairdresser you could get your hair cut once in a while, in exchange for whatever the hairdresser sees fit. Make a deal and get a new coupe. Are you a hairdresser? You were able to...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Teun Vonk

    Meditation Circus

    11
    أيار / مايو 2025
    11
    Jun 2025
    - Teun Vonk / Tony Spark

    Teun Vonk creates art installations that focus on individual physical experiences, as a reminder to the participant of what the body is and what it is capable of. The Meditation Circus...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • Thank you, come again.

    El HEMA koopavonden are making good progress

    Spectators arrive at El Hema exhibit a month before its grand opening and are invited to see the planning of the exhibit.

  • The best idea, stupid

    Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 1

    9.30am and Hackerscamp 2009 gets underway as 20 or so hackercampers new and old congregate at the Mediamatic HQ. Some have cycled leisurely from home, others, like the three jetlagged MIT guys, are...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998

    Mari Soppela's Family Files

    Up until the 80s, home movies were made on celluloid.

  • SensorMania

    Notes from the e-Fashion day

    Interactive fashion needs technology. If we want our clothes to move, sense and light up, then we will need the materials to do this for us. There are a lot of very interesting materials out there

  • Carpenters

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Camilo and Thjeu are essential in making the projects work. They brought their own tools and are building the (wooden) frames to house the installations.
  • The Hague, The Netherlands

    TodaysArt 2008 Festival in The Hague

    International Festival for Adventurous Creativity

    Every year, for one weekend, the TodaysArt Festival transforms the city centre of The Hague into an inspiring stronghold of creativity and audiovisual experiences. This year, over 200 artists will...

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