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  • Urban Farming

    Research on urban farming practices

    The line between the city and the country is becoming blurred and new practices are cropping up daily which bring the farm to the urban environment. We are looking into urban farming practices and...
  • urban farming
  • fabriek
  • farm
  • ecology
  • growing
  • urban

  • The hypnotic loop of Aquaponics

    An inside view about saturday 21st meeting

    To watch the loop of the water flow in our small aquaponics system is hypnotic: first, the water is whisked up by the pump and makes its way between the clay pebbles until the whole grow bed is full.

  • Climate Control

    Heating, cooling, ventilation

    Research into sustainable and innovative systems to heat, cool, and ventilate the Fabriek.

  • Mushrooms DIY

    Free mushroom cultivation manuals

    A compendium of manuals, articles and printed material on mushroom cultivation techniques

  • Building in Vacant Spaces

    Making use of empty space

    With two million square metres of vacant office space in Amsterdam alone, there is so much potential in putting cultural institutions inside these unused spaces. This is a very urgent theme in the...

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...

  • Ecobulevard

    Fake tree in Vallecas, Madrid.

    Re-thinking a 467.500 m3 urban space.

  • Agrocybe aegerita

    Black Poplar / Populierleemhoed

    This Mushroom is originally from Southern Europe, where it's called 'Pioppino'. In nature this mushroom grows on tree stems, stumps and trunks of Poplar trees and sometimes on Willows.

  • Get rich with aquaponics

    Successful plants in our aquaponics greenhouse

    Having an aquaponic system in an unheated greenhouse creates very specific conditions for plants. Some of the plants love it; others not so much. As many of the plants we have sowed have reached...
  • project:

    Polydome

    Polydome is a revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production.

  • Follow the pink birdhouses.

    Reach Mediamatic by bike, boat, bus, car, foot, train and/or tram.

    Perhaps you've seen them around, or read about them in the Parool. Since recently, Oostenburg is host to a series of pink birdhouses. They lead the way. Since Mediamatic moved from the Vijzelstraat...

  • Iron Deficiency

    Deep red water, but healthy plants.

  • Proposal PRINTING - CULTIVATING - APPLICATING

    A functional way to transfer and cultivate the qualities of mycelium.

  • Aquaponics

    Fish feeding plants, plants feeding fish

    Mediamatic has assembled a team to work on aquaponics projects at Mediamatic Fabriek. View their work here. On this page you can find research on future aquaponics projects.

  • What is this?

    Mysterious symptoms on leaves

    Last sunday we saw mysterious symptoms on some of the plants. The leaves look like they miss all their chlorophyl, but the fibers are still there.

  • Field Peas

    Growing field peas in an aquaponics greenhouse

    Although our shade cloth can cool the greenhouse on hot days, it is still nice to have some complete shade inside. We have created some extra shade by just using some string and field peas.

  • Ouders regelen opvang wel zelf

    Weer aandacht in de media over nieuwe initiatieven rondom kinderopvang

    Voor Het Parool van 26 maart schreef Barbara van Erp een interessant artikel over ouderparticipatie.

  • Piertopolis at Gemak

    PIERTOPOLIS The exhibition will be opened on Saturday, 21st January, 2012 at 5pm. Antonio Jose Guzman (Panama City, 1971) is an audio-visual, multidisciplinary artist exploring his Afro-European

  • Still Growing

    Living art of Dutch artist Zeger Reyers

    In 2007, Stroom Den Haag published a special edition about the dutch artist Zeger Reyers from the eyes of five established writers: Nell Donkers, Roland Groenenboom, Vincent Honoré, Philip Peters

  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • Urban Buds

    Movable suitcases

    Gionata Gatto's project is based on the idea of transform those unused spaces in areas completely dedicate to the socialization growing vegetables and fruit.

  • Community Projects

    Working with and loving our neighbours

    Here you will find research on different community based projects (geographic community and thematic community). The focus is on projects that will include the local community around the Fabriek and...

  • Garden furniture or a garden in your furniture?

    8 Extraordinary Greens and FurniBloom

    An artist and an architect are combining gardening and furniture design in very unexpected ways.

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Structuring processes

    Backing up our assumptions

    Our oldest system has been running for one and a half years now and we've seen happening a lot to it in this time. Ebs and flows, births and deaths, seeds and fruits. To have this experience is nice

created Margarita Osipian modified Margarita Osipian

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