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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Symposium
14Apr 2023- Lets talk Japanese knotweed!15Apr 2023Mediamatic invited experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. We will unpack the plant that is so often described as invasive. The symposium focussed on...
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Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics
Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy
As a part of our project ' Closing the tap ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations...
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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...
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Proposal by: Naomi Jansen
Karkínos
Project Proposal: Visual Artistic Research on Cancer
Karkínos is a visual artistic research in which cancer encounters different facets of the earth. In Karkínos, cancer is interconnected with, for example, the astrological world, the animal kingdom...
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Proposal by: Lena Kuzmich
Expanding Kin
Project Proposal: video installation on multi-species world-building
"Expanding Kin" is a video installation on multi-species world-building and consists of a short film and a physical installation organized as seating islands. The work examines the potential of...
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Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren
Nanoplay
Project Proposal: The Society Within Us
'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
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Fungi Trail Collaborators
Ontdek de schoonheid van schimmels in Natuur, Kunst, Wetenschap en Gastronomie bij Mediamatic, ARTIS-Micropia en de Hortus
Alhoewel we schimmels misschien vooral associeren met afbraak en bederf, zijn schimmels een heel belangrijk deel van ons ecosysteem en ons eten. Vier met ons de schoonheid van schimmels! Van 22...
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Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Artis Micropia Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, ARTIS-Micropia, Mediamatic Foundation
Fungi Trail
21Sep 2022- Ontdek de schoonheid van schimmels in Natuur, Kunst, Wetenschap en Gastronomie bij Mediamatic, ARTIS-Micropia en de Hortus2Oct 2022Alhoewel we schimmels misschien vooral associeren met afbraak en bederf, zijn schimmels een heel belangrijk deel van ons ecosysteem en ons eten. Vier met ons de schoonheid van schimmels! Van 22...
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How do you imitate scents from nature?
Frank speaking on NPO Radio 1 about Smelling Like Another Being
Listen to our resident parfumier Frank Bloem as he talks about his recent workshop Smelling Like Another Being , developed here at Mediamatic, on NPO Radio 1.
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Was Hildegard von Bingen Autistic?
A summary of 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and autism' by Patricia Ranft
Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century German nun, and one of the most influential women of her time. She wrote several scientific treatises, composed music, and invented her own language, all of...
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Collaboration Mediamatic & UvA Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Imagining of 'Just & Green' futures
- Making Utopias Real with Laura Burgers, Ivana Isailović, Usha Natarajan, Pippi van Ommen, Anouk Beckers, Margarita Nieves & Kyra Sacks20Jul 2022A limit on your energy consumption? A ban on cars? Or hamburgers for 100 euros? We like to promise each other a "just and green transition" of the economy, addressing global warming in a "fair
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Georgia Dalloro
The Squabs are Here!
Welcoming our feathered friends to Mediamatic
After weeks of preparation the squabs (young pigeons) are finally here! Arne put the last changes in the pigeon tower loft last week, changing the roof from a flat one to one that can be opened (cut...
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Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
Becoming magnesium
Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?
Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...
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Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot
Piss Soap
Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
How is smell used as a disguise in beings?
Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.
This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...
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Yacinth Pos
Designer and cook
Yacinth Pos is a designer and cook with a practice focused on the social, political and cultural field through a research driven approach. She explores social narratives within multiple media and...
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Prof. Dr. Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout has been working at the Central Bureau for Fungal Cultures since 1987. Since 2001 he lead research into yeasts and mushrooms. He is also a visiting professor at Shanghai Key...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nour Akoum
Aroma Lab's Kids Workshop
Fruity Birthday Cake version
Need a way to show kids how to make their own Fragrance but in a fun and relatively easy way? Here is your solution!
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Dr. Brian Hare
Physicist
Dr. Brian Hare is a physicist who studies lightning at the University of Groningen.
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Bad smell as a war weapon
How stink has been used to spread psychological warfare in (recent) history
Since the 19th century the main focus of our society has been on deodorisation: thighs, city, people must not smell bad, and we try to banish bad smells from our daily life. Our sensibility...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark 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...
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Knowledge Page - Aquaponics
Water tests
Measuring Micro Elements
Take the box with the little jars and syringes to the sink from the white container. Rinse the jars, lids, spoons and syringes you want to use (you will need some of them) and dry them well with...