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    Stitching method that is used for Corrimano

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  • 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...
  • 2022 Mediamatic Biotoop Aya Koné

    Sculpting with Mycelium

    Making a Fertile Figure from Mycelium and Myco-Clay

    RECIPE Fresh mycelium base for foundational structure Rotten mycelium overlay to sculpt detail Gloves to protect from splinters Optional: Toothpicks to stab parts together that simply won’t stick
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker: Margherita Soldati

    Are you in need of some artistic input or discussion partner on your project? We organize creative consultations with various artists who are currently researching, building or exhibition their work...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

    Jute

    June '20 – Pigeon Tower 02

    We put the remains of the collapsed tower from the first experiment in a long burlap tube. Burlap is a biodegradable textile, and provides structure and nourishment for the mycelium. We rolled up the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2023

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    Meet-a-Maker

    30 minute 1 on 1 meetings with artists

    Meet-a-Maker offers short one-on-one sessions with artists currently developing projects at Mediamatic. Join them in our greenhouse by the water for an open conversation about art, process, and...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks

    Babel

    June '20 – Pigeon Tower 01

    The first tower of mycelial waste. Living material. We mainly wanted to start. With a lot of enthusiasm but little precision or consultation. The uneven blocks were stacked intuitively. We filled the...

  • In 2019 we worked with these people

  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2020

  • Proposal by: Margherita Soldati

    A human microplastography

    Project proposal: Finding microplastics in the human body

    How do microplastic particles alter the human landscape by travelling through it? An abstract raised-relief 3dimensional map showing the traces and impact microplastic has on the human scape

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2022

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    Composing Fragrance

    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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Defining the Shape

    Square and Round

    Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2021

  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2018

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

  • The Duality of the Phallic Object

    A conversation with Rixta van der Molen

    When is something phallic? Are we constantly being penetrated? Rixta van der Molen is a young artist who is working with wax and sculpture making to question how our society thinks about “phallic...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2019

  • Growing lamps

    And then there was... mycelium

    In this post I will share how I made my first products from mycelium in the Mediamatic Clean Lab. 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Story behind Skin Hunger

    A reminder that our need to eat is as fundamental as our need to be touched

    What happens if we can’t touch each other? The answer is Skin Hunger - the biological need for human touch. It’s why babies in neonatal intensive care units are placed on their parent’s naked chests.

  • Inspiration

    Who proceded us, and who got inspired?

    When the Serres Séparées went viral, restaurants from all over the world got inspired and took over the idea to serve a safe and cozy dinner in private greenhouses. We feel honoured to see that we've...

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