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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dying, Caring, Encore!
- Project Presentation with Angela Kerr, Emily Bates and Yi-Jing Chen26Jan 2023Our identity is defined by so many elements. Hair. DNA. Body. The way we think or dress. Yet, most of these are perishable. Our body becomes ashes, our hair is cut, our clothes are replaced. Those...
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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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore21Jan 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...
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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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Proposal by: Emily Bates
Human Hair Tapestry
Project Proposal: A collective document, and trauma portrait
Hair has played a complex and diverse role within humankind’s cultural history, both symbolically and materially, being utilised within rituals and as memorial or portrait across many communities...
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Proposal by: Takako Hamano, Uno Fujisawa
EatArt Experience in Experiments
Project Proposal: Stimulating five senses
During the COVID pandemic, people were confronted with the essence of (their) being, either consciously or unconsciously. We had to find new ways to feel at ease with(in) ourselves and in our...
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Proposal by: Yi-Jing Chen
Growing with Garments
Project proposal: Interspecies Collaborative Design & Fashion
Growing with Garments is a response to an increase in biodesign in the fashion industry. Encountering living organisms in garments not only contributes to inventing eco-friendly materials but also...
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Proposal by: Angela Kerr
Forests of Remembrance
Project Proposal: Could the dearly departed save the planet?
As human beings, we honour our dead with rites, tombs and vigils, statues and cenotaphs, processions, pyres and rituals. Our instinct to respectfully bid farewell cuts across cultures, place and time.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore10Dec 2022Are 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore8Oct 2022Are 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...
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Boerderij Pieter Bijlsma
Boerderij Pieter Bijlsma is a farm located in Nieuw-Vennep that specialises in growing ancient grains such as emmer, eirkorn, and spelt. Boerderij Bijlsma aims to return to the basics of grain...
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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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Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
with Lynn Shore
Are 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore18Jun 2022Are 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...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andrea Valdivia
Serres main course
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné
Making Myco-clay
Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material
RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix
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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 Thibaut Counot
A year later: What our wasabi flowers are…
As the Wasabi growing in our aquaponics greenhouse starts to flower, we revisit last year’s tests and learn how to care and nurture this famously fussy crop.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Thibaut Counot
Serving our fish a special rat-atouille
Turning pests into fish food
Amsterdam is facing an increasing rat population. Can we turn this to our advantage?
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Coffin Selfie
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What would it be like to lie in your own coffin? Normally, once it happens it will be too late to know. Come and try it out in our coffin photo booth and have a picture taken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own shroud
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019It used to be Dutch tradition to make your own shroud, wear it on your wedding night, and put it away until you died. This workshop will enable you to work on designing your shroud.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Death Beauty Salon
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gwen van der Zwan
Finally Free
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Having already inflated a number of intestines with helium, Gwen van der Zwan manufactured an 8by2-meter zeppelin from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about the posthumous freedom of the 350...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Death one-on-one
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Irina Birger will spend an entire evening having one-on-one conversations of approximately 15 minutes centered on death, in an especially created installation. You're welcome to share your stories