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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier
Jute
June '20 – Pigeon Tower 02
We put the remains of the collapsed tower from the first experiment in a long burlap tube. Burlap is a biodegradable textile, and provides structure and nourishment for the mycelium. We rolled up the...
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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks
Babel
June '20 – Pigeon Tower 01
The first tower of mycelial waste. Living material. We mainly wanted to start. With a lot of enthusiasm but little precision or consultation. The uneven blocks were stacked intuitively. We filled the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at "Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots"…
with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots workshop was a culmination of the research and collaboration between interns from Mediamatic Clean Lab and Aquaponics Greenhouse. We're not hosting this workshop anymore
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Reward of Patience
Myco-beauty
An important element with the Mycelium Pigeon Towers is patience. We waited about two weeks before we took off the tarp and we could see steam coming off. There was this white tower in front of us.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Nature Network
Mycorrhizal fungi and their function
As I wrote, fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The third big group is mycorrhizal fungi. Which to me is the most inspiring group. It is the fungi that is connected to plants.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Guards and Guides
Parasitic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The second big group is parasitic fungi. Of course, there are parasitic species for every organism, but they are mainly related to insects.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Nature's janitors and Remediation
Saprophytic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. There are also some in-between types of fungi, but let's, for now, talk about these three. The first group is saprophytic fungi. They are...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Five kingdoms and Three terms
The fungi, the mycelium and the mushroom
First, let's tackle the fungi. Fungi are one of the species of the five kingdoms and it is the closest one to Animalia, ergo animals, including humans. Animals even evolved out of the fungi. That's...
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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks
Yellow
Feb '21 – Pigeon Tower 06
The construction of this tower is mainly focused on speed and efficiency. It is a simple square design so we did not have to trim the blocks. To press them we organized a ‘Gentle Disco’. We gently...
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Projecten
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Clean Lab
The Clean Lab at Mediamatic is a workspace to facilitate the growing requirements of designers and artists who want to expand their work into biological fabrication.
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Apparatuur
In het Clean Lab hebben we meerdere bijzondere apparaten die gebruikt worden binnen verschillende niches. We hebben een Braumeister en Grainfather om bier te brouwen. Een grote snelkookpan voor...
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Clean Lab
Credits
Thank you!
We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11Dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?
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Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon…
What are those structures outside the barn at Mediamatic?
Because these structures are made from living mycelium WHAT you call it probably depends on WHEN you encounter it. At first they are horizontal mushroom farms, and many of our neighbours have...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Defining the Shape
Square and Round
Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
The Power of Eight
From Octaves to Da Vinci
After the square and round tower try-out, we tried to build in an Octagonal shape. Finally we had succes! Apart from it being the right shape to keep the bricks together, the number 8 also became an...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots
- with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol2Dec 2020It's obvious that we should re-think our destructive consumption behaviours, and mycelium could be the answer. The living organism can be shaped into various shapes to create products that are 100%...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
How do I handle living material?
Supply, Cut, Build
Building a living architectural structure is challenging and needs a lot of research. To start with: What kind of material do we want to use exactly, where do we get it, and how do we handle it the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Building-Blocks
Different ways to build an octagon
What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.
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Designing mycelium plant pots
While working with mycelium at Mediamatic we thought about ways to combine mycelium with plants. We chose to experiment on making biodegradable plant pots. When making a positive impact on the...
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Structure
We are building a Pigeon Tower #4
Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works?
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Enlighted Chimeras
Mycelium Experiments
Upcycling broken found objects with mycelium to create something new and interesting. When I started my internship in the CleanLab of Mediamatic I had no idea how the mycelium behaves, what the...
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The Trials Continue
We are building a Pigeon Tower #3
After about a week and half of experimenting we have found some results.