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  • June - Oct 2020

    Doudouce Knol

    Aquaponics Assistant

  • Transformation
  • Plant
  • Urban Agriculture
  • Human
  • Nature
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Autumn

    Sept '21 – Dec '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Firing

    June '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Healing Property

    Mar - Aug '20

    In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Vegetative State

    June - July '19

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted.

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Blue Monday

    Sept - Dec '20

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted. The woad (lsatis tinctoria) which was planted in 2019 has been partially harvested and used to make woad dye...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #4 Denken, voelen en doen in de Garden-Based Approach

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Growth Imperative

    July - October '19

    Since its inception, Tumulus has been slowly changing shape. On Friday, September 13th , 2019, the artist organized a dedication ceremony inaugurating Phase 2 of the project. Visitors were offered a...

  • Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…

    Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?

    Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Dormant Lot

    Nov '19 - Mar '20

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Hibernating Winter Garden

    Dec '20 - Mar '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Spring

    Mar - June '21

    This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Promised Land

    June '15 - July '19

    How, and where to move thousands of kilos of straw and clay? When Mediamatic moved from the Van Gendthallen to the Dijksgracht in 2015, we had to disassemble our freshly built straw office. It was...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Romantic Ruin

    Dec '21

    Winter is knocking on our door and the Tumulus vegetation is preparing to hibernate.  This patch of nature is still holding its green for the most part but some plants have decayed to fall colours...

  • Live on the Towers!

    Dog Vomit slime mould on Gentle

    A couple of weeks ago, after heavy rain, a bright yellow gooey patch appeared on one of our older towers: Gentle (pigeon tower n.4). This patch started out looking elastic and glutinous, and seemed...

  • Growing In & Out with Artist Minji Choi

    Plant, Something that (Doesn’t) Love a Wall

    Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Minji Choi has a transboundary persona. As an artist, she devotes herself to reexamining ‘belonging’ and ‘nativeness'. In her body of...

  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...

  • Eating the Invasive

    A beautiful plant with a horrible reputation

    Many believe that the Japanese knotweed is a specie that can only cause harm. This, however, is a very one-sided view on this exotic invader. In cities and gardens it might be a pain to get rid of
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    L'Absinthe de la Rue de Dindon VIII – Mediamatic…

    by Dirk Vis and Edgar Walthert

    Ingredients: spirits, anise, fennel, liquorice, nettle, lemon, sage*, hyssop, melissa, coriander, lavender*, mint*, tree wormwood*, mugworth* and wormwood *harvested from Tumulus

  • Canadian goldenrod

    Solidago Canadensis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

  • Field marigold

    Calendula arvensis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia . 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?

  • Kool Kabbage

    Winterprogramme December - March 2018

    Kool Kabbage Voor Mediamatic begon 2018 met een uitbundige kolenoogst, die we vierden in ons winterprogramma rondom voedseloverschot, waarde en overvloed.  We hebben gestapeld , gefermenteerd...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

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