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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pan Flute Making Workshop
- Crafting with Japanese Knotweed21Apr 2023Make your own flute from Japanese Knotweed! A crafty, fun and musical workshop for kids and families perfect for a after school activity. Tickets
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Responsible Knotweed Foraging
- with Lynn Shore30Apr 2023Do you want to learn where to find and how to forage knotweed in a responsible way? Join Lynn Shore on this journey, and learn what you can do with Japanese knotweed to improve your health. Tickets
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Drawing of Japanese Knotweed
- Recognise and learn about Japanese knotweed23Apr 2023Observing and drawing of Japanese Knotweed plant, with a scientific overview. Tickets
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor4Jun 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor14May 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Harvesting Knotweed responsibly
Problems are opportunities
Discover how to reduce and give use to Japanese Knotweed around you. Learn how to harvest this wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. See where to find knotweed in...
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Performance Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Invention of Music
- an evening of sound, music and storytelling by Marc Lemonnier22Apr 2023Stomp, Stomp... break! Click, clank. Come join us for an evening filled with sound, stories and history and witness the invention of music, by Marc Lemonnier. This family-oriented show is a musical...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pan Flute Making Workshop
- Crafting with Japanese Knotweed22Apr 2023Make your own flute from Japanese Knotweed! A crafty, fun and musical workshop for kids and families.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nesie Wang
The Mind Garden Project
- A/artist Roundtable13Mar 2023A/artist is planning to start a new project, Mind Garden, to explore connections between gardening and neurodiversity. In this roundtable, we would like to have an open discussion on how the garden...
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Knotweed Burek Exchange
11Apr 2023- with Krater22Apr 2023Japanese knotweed can’t be sold for consumption in the European Union. Only the extract from its roots in its purest form, resveratol, is traded on the international market. In the knotweed Borek...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foliage Dye Workshop
- Dyeing wool with with Lucie Havel8Apr 2023If you look closely at Japanese knotweed, you will notice the many beautiful colours it holds. Join the workshop with Lucie Havel to learn how to dye wool with Japanese knotweed to bring out the...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Drawing of Japanese Knotweed
- Recognise and learn about Japanese Knotweed16Apr 2023Observing and drawing of the Japanese Knotweed plant, with a scientific overview and an artistic perspective. Tickets
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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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Chocolate mint
Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Chocolate'
Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Wood-sedge
Carex sylvatica
Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
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Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
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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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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks10Feb 2023Decay is seen as something negative. That is a mistake. It is not inevitable but we can work with it instead of against it when we build with living materials. With decay in mind, we at Mediamatic...
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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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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Festival
Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks27Jan 2023Decay is seen as something negative. That is a mistake. It is not inevitable but we can work with it instead of against it when we build with living materials. With decay in mind, we at Mediamatic...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Full programme overview 2023
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sound, Space, Sex
- Project Presentation with Renata De Bonis, Samar Khan and Lena Kuzmich9Feb 2023Nature is dualistic: it can be beautiful yet display ugliness, safe but also dangerous, kind and at the same time cruel. Nature can teach us a lot about who we are and how the world around us is...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore11Mar 2023Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...