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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
T - Soap Alchemy
with Liza Witte
Soap used to be made by combining animal fat and wood ash. Our resident expert Liza Witte will guide you through the process of creating your own plant-based soap. You will learn how to formulate...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
T - Blending a Rose Accord
What are the ingredients to the seductive scent of a rose? Believe it or not, but not all the roses smell the same. The spectrum of rose aromas is large: it varies from delicious and delightful to...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
T - Distilling a Scent Bouquet
with Frank Bloem
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
T - Composing Fragrance
with Frank Bloem
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
- with Frank Bloem19Jan 2020Finding ways to trap smells in a bottle was a quest that went on for ages, until distillation was discovered. Distillation is an ancient process that has long been used to extract essential oils from...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
19Dec 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
12Dec 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
5Dec 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
21Nov 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
14Nov 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
7Nov 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Aroma Lab
31Oct 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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"Eau d'îles de l'Est"
Odour of the industries
This is the second part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashions a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every perfume
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"Eau d'îles de l'Est"
Smells of the water
This is the first part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashion a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every perfume, their...
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Lemon & scurvy
An ironic antidote
Imagine a state whereby every sensory experience you came to offended your senses. Trees smelling of fecal matter. The taste of poultry almost poisons you. Greenery from vegetation is so disagreeably...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Geur Workshop
- met Frank Bloem3Oct 2019Op 3 oktober kwam een groepje leerlingen van het Orion College langs om een geur workshop te volgen van Frank Bloem. We roken aan verschillende blotters en gingen zo het geur orgel af. We leerden...
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"Great and ghastly stench"
Dutch whaling industry in the 17th century
“Lying in the bay were five large whale carcases which still had not been flensed through lack of manpower. There was a "great and ghastly stench" and, after a few fine days, the sun had...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Blending a Rose Accord
- with Klara Ravat15Dec 2019What are the ingredients to the seductive scent of a rose? Believe it or not, but not all the roses smell the same. The spectrum of rose aromas is large: it varies from delicious and delightful to...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Male Haze
- Odorama 34 - with Boris Raux, Marcello Aspria, Emily Burdfield Steel and Frank Bloem24Oct 2019Does a 'real man' smell like the Axe commercials? During the Male Haze, Boris Raux, Marcello Aspria, Dr. Emily Burdfield Steel, and Frank Bloem will explore male smell from a cultural and...
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Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 2
Bread
Life near the Port of Amsterdam was not only scented by colonial activities. Afterall, a huge portion of businesses ran by the docks were also to sustain a whole city of people. Having said that, the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Weekend van de Wetenschap
5Oct 20196Oct 2019We dagen je uit om tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap op onderzoek te gaan. Loop over ons terrein en leer over eigenschappen van verschillende planten, struin het Oosterdok af opzoek naar Haeckel...
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A Deterrence of Sight and Smell
The gallows field of Amsterdam
The small headland on the north side of the IJ, opposite the Oosterdok, used to be the location of the gallows field of Amsterdam. Criminals sentenced to death were executed on Dam Square, and as an...
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Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 1
Pickled Herring
Along the lines of the previous topic : The Amsterdam port did not only shelter ships coming from abroad. Some of the vessels coming into the docks were also ships related to local industry. During...
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A warehouse ablaze
Fire of 1791
It is true that many of the scents that infected the Amsterdam air was by way of the VOC/WIC ships coming to and from the harbour. In a way, a major import – albeit unintentional- from these...