Copy: Lab vs. Studio

Biotalk, Wednesday 20 Jan.

Will the future workspace of designers and artists transform from a studio into a laboratory? And what happens when you take an alchemist approach and bring the laboratory inside your bathroom? Join us coming Wednesday for Biotalk Lab v.s. Studio. With Hongije Yang's Human Tissue Vase, Nina van Bart's futuristic vision on body care and the material research of Caroline de Roy, who investigated the transparency of schizophyllum - mycelium.

Food from 18:00, talks begin at 20:00
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Human Tissue Vase by Hongjie Yang - On display at MU Gallery exhibition 'Body of Matter', photo by van Abbemuseum

With: Hongjie Yang

Coming Up

Jan. 16 - Workshop: Brew Your Own Beer
Design your own radical beer and learn all about fermentation with brewer Simon Buijs
Tickets: Students and Freelancers : €84,- / Regular: €120,-

Jan. 23 Workshop: Aquaponics
Learn how to grow fish and vegetables in an aquaponics system
Tickets: Students and freelancers: €101,50 / Regular €145,-

Jan 28 - Odi et amo: on pee, trains and beer
Pis'talk about peeing on trains and festivals, and how design can improve this experience
Tickets: Student €5,- / Pre-sale: €7,50 / Door: €10,-

Feb. 06 - Workshop: Prototyping Bodies
Prototype the future ‘you’ in a workshop regarding guided human evolution. Through a short life casting course and an ideas generation workshop participants can develop sculptures prototyping on how environmental pressures may impact our malleable future form. By Bio-artist Agi Haines.
Tickets: Students and freelancers €105,- / Regular €150,-

Information
Mediamatic Biotoop,
Dijkspark 6, Amsterdam
www.mediamatic.net/agenda

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Film still of The Alchemist by Nina van Bart - 'The Alchemist' is a trend forecast, a short film for the wellness industry with a new approach to body care and beauty treatments.

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Sample studies by Caroline de Roy - As part of the Myco Design Lab Caroline de Roy is researching the Schyzophyllum in collaboration with the University of Utrecht, Officinal Corpuscoli and Mediamatic. caroline de roy