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    Hildegard von Bingen

    Mediaeval Influencer who Hated Lettuce

    Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary

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  • Secretopic Research: Chewing Gum

    A visual archive

    Chewing gum has something mysterious about it. Although we all know it, we can say very little about it. Why don't we question it more?  How did it begin? What are we chewing? Why do we chew it...

  • Medusae

    Jellyfish, one of the oldest living organism in the world, has existed in the world for at least 500 million years. However, we still know so little about them! This blog is a compilation of the...

  • 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...

  • festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    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.

  • Proposal by: Paolo Bosca

    Food Utopias

    Project Proposal: A different geography of taste

    Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy. We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world...

  • Balanophagy

    Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture

    “Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.

  • Groente? Bitter! Als kind at ik liever…

    Een gesprek met onze voormalig head chef Gino Marengo

    Met een jagende opa die het wild direct uit het bos plukte, kwam Gino al van jongs af aan in contact met dieren, verse ingrediënten en rijke gerechten. Hij at alles van hert en leguaaneieren tot...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021

    Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!

    procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit

    You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...

  • Proposal by: Miku Sato

    Book and Fire

    Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism

    Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.

  • Phase one: Experimenting with Jellyfish

    How do you start a project with jellyfish? By experimenting on them. We were lucky to receive a number of jellyfish from the fisherman who usually supplied Mediamatic ETEN with oysters, and the next...

  • Proposal by: Ginevra Petrozzi

    Requiem for my mother's Data

    Project Proposal: Ritual for performing grief in the digital age

    How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die? To...

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • The Taste of Elder

    Together with  Brouwerij Oedipus   and artist   Zeger Reyers , we follow the seasons with the elder tree. We brew four different seasonal beers with local ingredients from this everyday shrub in...

  • Proposal by: Maria Jimena Ricatti

    Post-pandemic tasting experience

    Project Proposal: Exploring sensory diversity and holistic wellbeing

    As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced some degree of smell or taste impairment in the short and long term. However, there are also people who deal with these kinds of...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • Dutch Design Week 2021 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

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    Thank you!

    We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.

  • Jellyfish in the Culinary Scene

    The earliest practice of eating jellyfish dates back to 300 CE in China. It has been considered a delicacy in some Asian countries and used in medical treatment. The most common edible jellyfish in...

  • exhibition: Toronto, Canada, Vancouver, Canada, Ottawa, Canada

    Edible Futures: Food for Tomorrow

    27
    Apr 2019

    The Dutch Institute of Food & Design is opening a new interactive design exhibition on the future of food, presented by the Dutch Embassy in Canada. Called "Edible Futures," in Ottawa, Canada. The...

  • Bursting the Bubble

    How bad is it for our environment?

    Chewing gum may have some benefits for mankind but do we exactly know what we put in our mouth? Unfortunately, your favorite piece of gum consists of plastic.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Morphology of Fish - Amsterdam Collection

    Around Dijkspark, in the waters of Oosterdok an the Ij, many types of fish can be found. Here, Mandy den Elzen showes us the beauty of their gills; the respiratory organs of fish. 

  • History

    The reason for creating the Clean Lab at our Dijksgracht location was primarily to create a lab space large enough and suitable for the growing tide of artists wanting to expand their work into...

  • Garri

    Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'

    “Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...

  • Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté

    Are you prepared for the Halloween?

    This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...

  • Genomineerd voor de DOEN Pitch winand singh

    Indiaspora

    trace back the route of your roots

    De migratie van Indiase loonarbeiders (en hun nageslacht) multimediaal in kaart gebracht. Indiaspora zit op het snijpunt van genealogie, social media en het wiki-model

created Anne Lakeman modified Willem Velthoven

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