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Edible flowers, salad and onion sauce

Course 2 - Picking

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Body
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Mediamatic Biotoop Suzana Orsolic

Reconnected senses in times of disconnection

How to make your online live streams multi-sensory appealing

In March 2020, we would meet with friends online to drink a glass of wine or host a trivia night. One year and countless online meetings later, our social lives are still disrupted, and inevitable...
Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi

Cooking with essential oils.

What does ylang ylang, orange blossom or rose essential oils taste like?

Do you know that about 70% of our taste comes from our nose? Our taste is basically nothing without our nose. In fact, have you ever noticed that when you catch a cold the food tastes different?
Mediamatic Biotoop Aya Koné

Making Myco-clay

Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material

RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix
Mediamatic Biotoop

The Beauty Dinner: the Recipes

How to continue treating your skin at home

Thank you to everyone who participated in The Beauty Dinner, created by artists Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika and chef Alice Héron. As we mentioned, we want you to be able to relive the dinner...
festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

Japanese Knotweed Festival

Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Magdalena Thur, Nadja Nolte, Clara Casal, Elnaz Assar

Acorn Bitterballen Recipe

Exploring the culinary potential of wild plants surrounding Mediamatic

Inspired by the variety of wild weeds surrounding Mediamatic, the Clean Lab Team set out to investigate the culinary potential of the resources which are locally and seasonally available.
Mediamatic Biotoop

Art Olfaction Amsterdam

Come and smell this summer during one of the many scent related activities at Mediamatic. Create your own perfume, join us in our open lab sessions, battle of the noses, or participate in our...
Mediamatic Biotoop, Oosterdok

Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

This open call is closed

Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

Under the Harbour

15
Jan 2026

15
Jan 2027
- by Mariko Hori

Have you ever wondered how the underwater smells like? Or what scents surround the aquatic species? Under the Harbour is a participatory exhibition that brings the smell of the Oosterdok from the...
workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

Composing Fragrance

12
Apr 2026
- with Frank Bloem

In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

TACTimat

17
Dec 2025

15
Jan 2027
- by Laura A Dima

TACTimat is part art, part therapy tool for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), utilizing haptic stimuli to address the needs of hyper and hyposensitive children. TACTimat is a...
Capturing human scent through enfleurage

In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum

Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.
Mediamatic Biotoop Federica Libralon

Oil Ex Tech

Essential oil extraction machine

Apparatus that thanks the microwave, allows you to extract scented oils. Some precautions to use the extractor and obtain essential oil.
Heaven Scent

You can now resurrect the unique smell of your deceased loved one, for $600.

So we’ve seen smell dating . But it turns out that is just the first whiff of what’s to come in terms of personal odour and relationships. French company Kalain now offers a service that promises...
2020 Mediamatic Biotoop

Kimchi: Co-design with Microbes

with Saskia Frederiks

Have you been dreaming of being able to make your own kimchi? It is a delicious condiment, which brings fermented flavor of umami and tanginess, as well as beneficial microbes into your cooking .
Summer 2018

Overview of our all our Art Olfaction Amsterdam events
Mediamatic Biotoop Nour Akoum

Aroma Lab's Kids Workshop

Fruity Birthday Cake version

Need a way to show kids how to make their own Fragrance but in a fun and relatively easy way? Here is your solution!
Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

It smells like fresh bread!

As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...
Body as Atomiser

Swallowable Parfum by Lucy McRae

If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser.
Cuban Blood Sausages

Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...
Eating the Future

Exploring food beyond the plate

Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future? In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...
Mediamatic Biotoop

Sculpting Textiles

with Margherita Soldati

How can you use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in shapes, textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to manipulating...
Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

De Day After

De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.
When can we start to objectify our hair?

Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

created Alice Gimpel modified Anne Lakeman

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