Pigeon Towers across the world

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Pigeon Tower - Esfahan, Iran Photo by Erwin Bolwidt. These towers (there used to be many more of them) are used to collect pigeon droppings, to be used as manure.

Pigeon towers in Iran - Pigeon towers once used to collect guano in the countryside near Isfahan.

Pigeon Tower in Qatar - Pigeon Tower by Abdullah Al-Shackarchi. A classic symbol, the picture shows two filled in pigeon towers taken at The Cultural Village, Katara. Photo by Creative Commons Qatar

Pigeon Tower Events

Workshops, presentations and dances
Pigeon Towers

We are building with living mycelium waste

Is it a mushroom farm? Is it a tower? Is it fertile soil? Is it a corn field? Is it a pigeon tower? By Arne Hendriks The mycelium pigeon tower is a constant process of one state moving into the next.
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...
Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

Mycelium Pigeon Towers

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Oct 2021
- by Arne Hendriks

Every two to three weeks, a new pigeon tower emerges at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms. The...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts

Death is in the air, and you can smell it

The demise of the pigeon towers

While mushrooms emerge, grow, mature and decay, the towers shrink and bend under their own weight. And we keep building. Trying to reach and hold the height of the tower. We feel the need to repair...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

Commence Operation

We are building a Pigeon Tower #2

During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

Cartier

Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
Mycelium Pigeon Towers

Collection of Design Research Questions

Is mycelium waste from the oyster mushroom industry an effective material to build with? Can we build structures to house Amsterdams feral pigeons? Do pigeons accept a mycelium structure as a place...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

Gentle

Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

Folk

May '21 – Pigeon Tower 10

Folk is inspired by the circular folk dance we developed to press the mycelium walls. For this, four people hold hands while moving clockwise on top of the wall. Because we add a limited number of...

created Anne Lakeman modified Anne Lakeman

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