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  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Herbology of Japanese Knotweed

    16
    Apr 2023
    - with Lynn Shore

    Yes! You are now excited about Japanese Knotweed, just like us! You may have even found a patch of them close to you. What next? Learn the history and medicinal properties of Japanese knotweed, how...

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  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...

  • Crafting Joyful Wellness

    A closer look at our Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy workshop

    In a world constantly seeking answers to balance our modern minds, the wisdom of the past can often provide profound insights. Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy with Lynn Shore is a workshop that...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    Elderflower Champagne 2.0

    Popping champagne straight from the garden!

    The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L!  Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    Duckweed taste testing 2.0

    Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish

    Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen as...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    Tasting before wasting

    Optimizing our African Catfish feed

    My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol

    What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…

    Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system

  • 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

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Did you know that many plants that grow in the city can help to boost your mood and support mental health? In this workshop Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session around Dijkspark and...

  • 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?

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Six-Winged Chicken and other mythical…

    1
    Sep 2020
    - by Anne Kamps

    Where does the meat we eat actually come from? On what scale is it produced? And, what is real news and what is fake news? A few years ago, the phenomenon of the six-winged chicken was written about...

  • 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'...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Clara Casal, Magdalena Thur, Elnaz Assar, Nadja Nolte

    Making acorns edible

    In a hands-on process the Clean Lab Team learns about the processing of acorns.

    The Harvest In and around Amsterdam the oak can be found in parks, forests and along the streets. Once you are attentive, you will see them everywhere around. The Balanophagy Team as well didn’t have...

  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building Aquaponic Systems

    with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    ijKruid

    Starting from Dijkspark, we're mapping the plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Dijkspark at any moment.

  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    12
    Apr 2026
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this Aroma Lab 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...

  • mediamatic eten Justin Knelange

    From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons

    In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos

    As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...

  • Shrinking Sustainability

    Experimenting with making bioplastic

    Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop 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...

  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Aquatic Speculations

    14
    Mar 2026
    - with Silke Riis

    You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...

  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Radical Embroidery

    with Desirée Hammen

    Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Abhay Villa 28 Jun 2021

    Shitty Water + Wasabi - Snails = Money

    At the Mediamatic Greenhouse, we try to maximise the productivity of the little space we have by growing rare, collectable and valuable crops. All whilst strongly advocating for the advantages of...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building With Mycelium

    with Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon towers used to exist everywhere to produce extra fertiliser needed to support growing populations. When artificial fertiliser was discovered most towers became neglected, as did their...

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