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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop TestTafel
TestTafel Fermentation Workshop & Cooking Class
- Hands-on educational experience introducing participants to fermentation techniques to continue at home5Apr 2026In this workshop, guests will learn how to apply fermentation techniques at home, get a taste of how to work them into their cooking and take home two ferments with recipes and guides to enjoy later.
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Design Research:
Aquatoop
How can we design structures for the water, for its users and inhabitants?
Much of Amsterdam’s biodiversity is underwater. Amsterdam’s Unesco listed quays are facing one of the largest repairs in its history - 200 km of quay repairs. While focusing on preserving the land
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
City Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore20Sep 2025Are 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
City Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore20Jul 2025Are 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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Open City Monastery Mediamatic Biotoop
Rites of Play
Unveiling the Open City Monastery
What if a space existed to respond to human needs, not with forced positivity, but with the quiet acceptance of what is? A place where rest is a ritual, where food and shelter are offered freely, and...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop
Wines of Hildegard
- with Tamara Last28Sep 2024Get to know the vine plant and taste medieval recipes for infused and quenched wines. Be inspired by Hildegard to adapt recipes to your personal well-being and needs and take home your very own wine...
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1. Mediamatic Biotoop Janneke de Lange
Fruiture Nursery
26Apr 2024- by Janneke de Lange14Jul 2024Designer Janneke de Lange envisions a future scenario in which she can grow her own tropical fruit trees in a mobile plant greenhouse, a 'Wardian case'. Because the Dutch climate is not...
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Anthroponics unravelled
Ever heard of this unconventional horticulture technique?
Now you have! Let's find out what is it about
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Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…
Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?
Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...
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Piss or get off the pot!
New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system
It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
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Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop
Breakfast with Hildegard
with Tamara Last
Medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen encouraged people to invite joy into daily routine through mindful rituals that addressed emotional challenges like brain-fog, rage, and forgetfulness. Start your...
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Bokashiponics
Bokashi: a nutritious wondertea or an overhyped fairytale?
We are investigating what it would take to turn our aquaponics system into a hydroponics system. The main question is where we will source our nutrients. We want our fertilizer to be as organic and...
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Future scenarios for our beloved greenhouse
An honest review of 10+ years of aquaponics
We first started experimenting with aquaponics in 2012 at our previous location at the van Gendthallen . After more than 10 years of learning, growing and enjoying an abundance of fresh herbs, we...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy
- with Tamara Last2Mar 2024Medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen had solutions to help bring joy, whether a person felt low, empty, brained, full of rage or had memory difficulties. Join Tamara Last to recreate the recipes of...
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Understanding salinity units and conversions
What are the units for salinity? Can they be converted into one another, to homologate research data?
Salinity is the concentration of dissolved salts in water; it is a critical parameter in various fields, including oceanography, environmental science, and water quality monitoring. Salinity plays a...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker: Arthur Guilleminot
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Arthur Guilleminot ...
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Crafting Joyful Wellness
A closer look at our Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy workshop
In a world constantly seeking answers to balance our modern minds, the wisdom of the past can often provide profound insights. Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy with Lynn Shore is a workshop that...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy
- with Lynn Shore3Dec 2023Medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen had solutions to help bring joy, whether a person felt low, empty, brained, full of rage or had memory difficulties. Join Lynn Shore to recreate the recipes of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy
- with Urban Herbology team18Nov 2023Medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen had solutions to help bring joy, whether a person felt low, empty, brained, full of rage or had memory difficulties. Join Tamara, teammate of Urban Herbology
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Harvesting rainwater
Research and design for a rainwater system
Following the research on irrigating with canal water, a more general question appeared: How to build an ecological water management system for the exterior garden and interior greenhouse aquaponics?
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Ton Denters
Ton Denters is an urban ecologist and specialist of Dutch flora, author of the reference book Stadsflora van de Lage Landen and The urban district, a biogeographical acquisition. Denters describes...
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Organization:
Superuse Studios
Superuse Studio is a global architecture office that utilizes the contextual potential for design. A design is not considered as the beginning of a linear process but as a phase in a continuous...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy
- with Lynn Shore17Sep 2023Medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen had solutions to help bring joy, whether a person felt low, empty, brained, full of rage or had memory difficulties. Join Lynn Shore to recreate the recipes of...