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Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hydrocommons
- with Enora Cressan, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Silke Riis20Feb 2026Join us on Friday, February 20th, to mark a new chapter for Mediamatic! This evening, we explore the idea that we are not separate entities, but porous beings in the same water. When will we begin...
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The Confluence of European Water Bodies: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Diplomatic Suitcase
- Opening Night19Sep 2025Water flows through every aspect of our lives. It is a force that is at once essential and powerful, yet deeply endangered. In our world, water is often silent in the face of political and legal...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Diplomatic Suitcase
19Sep 2025- The Confluence of European Water Bodies21Oct 2025Water flows through every aspect of life — essential, powerful, and deeply endangered. Yet, in Europe and beyond, water often remains voiceless in political and legal decisions. This exhibition...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Letizia Artioli
Lullaby for Floods
- Opening Night5Sep 2025The Lullaby for Floods installation will be the creation of a sonic environment and an in-between space connecting us to the Earthly turbulences in the new climate regime: it exchanges our inner...
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Zoop
Jolanda Verspagen
Speaker for the Living
Jolanda Verspagen is a phytoplankton ecologist, currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, she is our Speaker for the Living.
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Jan Jongert
Architect and Designer
Jan Jongert is a principal at Superuse Studios in Rotterdam (formerly 2012 architecten)
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Sanz Rosal
Oosterdok Sensory Tower
21May 202521May 2026This exhibition invites you to journey through time, exploring the layered history of Mediamatic's waterfront location. Here, where the scent of the water blends with the lingering echoes of...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Minji Kim
Aquatic Soundscapes
1Mar 2025- Minji Kim1Apr 2025We know our actions ripple through the water. But how do they sound to those who live beneath the surface? What can these unheard frequencies teach us about our impact and our connection to the...
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Blog: Oosterdok Mariah Issa
Aquatic Soundscapes
"I want to listen in places that my body cannot access"
Mediamatic has welcomed a new artist-in-residence, Minji Kim ! What inspires her work? How does the location of Mediamatic influence it? How does Minji wish for the Aquatic Soundscapes exhibition to...
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1. Mediamatic Biotoop Janneke de Lange
Fruiture Nursery
26Apr 2024- by Janneke de Lange14Jul 2024Designer Janneke de Lange envisions a future scenario in which she can grow her own tropical fruit trees in a mobile plant greenhouse, a 'Wardian case'. Because the Dutch climate is not...
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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...
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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'...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker: Arthur Guilleminot
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Arthur Guilleminot ...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Harvesting rainwater
Research and design for a rainwater system
Following the research on irrigating with canal water, a more general question appeared: How to build an ecological water management system for the exterior garden and interior greenhouse aquaponics?
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People
Get to know the team that is working on Grain of Salt.
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Organization:
Superuse Studios
Superuse Studio is a global architecture office that utilizes the contextual potential for design. A design is not considered as the beginning of a linear process but as a phase in a continuous...
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Nesie Wang 28 Jul 2023
The Mind Garden: Thoughts and Inspirations
Explore connections between gardening and neurodivergence.
A/artist has been developing the concept of Mind Garden for the past few months. After the roundtable discussion: Plants are it! , where guests shared their practice and thoughts about plants and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Pauline Rip
Elficological know‑how
22Jun 2023- A take on fictional knowledge by artist Pauline Rip30Sep 2023How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...
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Exhibition: Dutch Pavilion Venice Willem Velthoven, Annelies Wina Doom
Plumbing the System
20May 2023- Superuse proposes rainwater management for the Giardini della Biennale26Nov 2023This years Dutch contribution to the Architecture Biennnale in Venice is a very humble and, at the same time, incredibly ambitious proposal. Next to the amazingly analytical illustration by Carlijn...
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If you can't beat it, eat it!
What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon
Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...
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Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics
Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy
As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Dyeing with Fabulous Fungi
- Workshop with Ilse Kremer5Mar 2023Have you ever been mesmerized by the beautiful colours of mushrooms? Did you know you can dye fabric with the pigments produced by mushrooms? Come join fashion and textile designer Ilse Kremer to...
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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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Closing the Tap
Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption
The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...