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  • Image: Marcela Szwarc

    Miguel & Chair

    Miguel gets a look at the underside of his redesigned chair.
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  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
  • Kompromat Blog Katja Sokolova, Andrei Tchernikov

    Raving in Rags

    @ ikikik (me me me!) opening

    "Je kijkt zo zuur naar m'n haute couture" sings a popular Dutch band "Jeugd van Tegenwoordig". Mediamatic and Andrea Crews look down on high fashion too. We're done with Versace and Dolce&Gabbana.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992

    Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool

    or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections

    In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...

  • Miktor & Molf workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Miktor & Molf work on a coffin that will be a homage to the deceased. As a starting point the family members bring along an archive of images of the loved one.
  • Maurice Nio 1 Jan 2002

    Infect the Soft

    What is really wrong with euclidic geometry? Which objections can really be lodged against integers, straight lines and orthogonal structures? Why are mechanical and mechanistic principles put in the...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...

  • 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...
  • book: Donald Norman 1 Sep 1998

    The Invisible Computer

    In this book, Norman shows why the computer is so difficult to use and why this complexity is fundamental to its nature.

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • Pissing in the Park

    Masterclass Place Branding

    Christian Pagh is one of the top designers in Europe when it comes to public convenience for both men and women. In two weeks Christian is visiting Amsterdam to give an exclusive Masterclass on Place...
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Standard Icons

    Mieke Gerritzen

    From February 16 until 29 2004 work by Mieke Gerritzen was projected on Mediamatic Supermarkt
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Bert Mulder 1 Jan 1992

    Alexander

    Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press 1977

    We build information systems: hundreds of people sitting in front of screens that glow and that, interconnected, create an environment supporting their works and desires.
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    21
    Mar 2026
    - with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...
  • workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • Carpenters

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Camilo and Thjeu are essential in making the projects work. They brought their own tools and are building the (wooden) frames to house the installations.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998

    Mari Soppela's Family Files

    Up until the 80s, home movies were made on celluloid.

  • Creative Genius: Things I have learned in my life…

    Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer and Typographer, Sagmeister Inc (AT)

    Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister has a slightly different way of looking at things.
  • Project cedric flazinski

    MyDesigner

    User-based form-giving

    How the individual makes form more relevant in identity-related products. A brief description of Cedric Flazinski 's Master thesis project, MyDesigner, at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2008.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Conny Groenewegen

    Fashion Machine Factoids

    Why we have to Cut the Crap

    A million microplastics per washing, 6000 sweaters, and 570 square meters of knitting. The fashion industry is a beautiful but polluting business. Designer Conny Groenewegen sets out to visualize...
  • Pop-Up Cafe

    The Last Sweat Party in the Pop-Up basement

    The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. Created by Eline Mul and Karolien Buurman, it's a place that looks and...

  • A night in the Round Rest

    In the middle of the Favela

    Spend a night in a round bed. The Round Rest is standing in a greenhouse, at the centre of the Freezing Favela , a temporary settlement in Mediamatic. There are all kinds of art projects in the big...

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