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Japanese Knotweed Festival '24
Japanese Knotweed Program
upcoming events
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season. Reserve your tickets here ! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Living Tower Talk #5 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
De Stad als Dierentuin (The City as a Zoo)
23Feb 2024How can humans, animals and plants live together in the city and what role do art and design play in this? This time we will talk with Thijs de Zeeuw, known for designing the new lion enclosure in...
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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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Intimacies in the Waiting Room
18Dec 2023Waiting rooms are often a place of discomfort, annoyance and embarrassment. Yvonne Dröge Wendel’s cuddly objects turn your stay into a voyage of discovery. Meanwhile, Vera Lelie is surprised by the...
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Book: Annelies Wina Doom, Willem Velthoven, Jam van der Aa, Marcel Sturing
Zelftest
Cahier voor Museumnacht 2023
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Lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #4
10Nov 2023Janna Bystrykh is an architect and researcher seeking to regenerate design practices in response to our biodiversity and climate crises. Taking the Mycelium Pigeon Towers as conversation starters, we...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ignacy Radtke
Smile Like You Really Mean It
15Dec 202314Apr 2024In this work, Ignacy Radtke explores the concept of emotional labour, the effort required to maintain social relationships. For some, this kind of 'work' is easier to perform than for others. This...
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Nurturing Timeless Knowledge
Living Tower Talk #3
In the third episode of the Living Tower Talk series, titled "Nurturing Timeless Knowledge," attendees were treated to a fascinating exploration of ecocentrism, the beauty of circular movements...
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Living Tower Talks
So much to learn. So much time.
During the monthly Living Tower Talks, co-curated by Arne Hendriks and Clemens Driessen , we come together to learn, discuss and rethink how we live. Mycelium-waste-pigeon-towers are taken as...
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Lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #3
29Sep 2023Breaking Boundaries and Forming New Connections: Embracing Ecocentrism. Join us on a journey of chicken audiences, fungi, and a different point of view! Tickets
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Lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #2
23Jun 2023What can we learn from a mycelium pigeon tower? How can the interaction with other species reshape our perspectives? In the spring of 2020 Arne Hendriks started building pigeon towers with living...
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100 Years of Learning
Mycelium Towers as Guides for Collective Learning and R-Evolution
A Century-long Masterclass During the Summer of 2020, Mediamatic joined forces with artist Arne Hendriks to explore the possibilities of using mycelium waste as a building material for constructing...
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The Harmony of Disorder: Functionality in Messy…
Living Tower Talk #2
On the second episode of the Living Tower Talk , Mediamatic welcomed Amsterdam-based infrastructure activist Debra Solomon to talk about co-existing with non-human entities and what a multispecies...
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Lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #1
19May 2023What can we learn from a mycelium pigeon tower? How can the interaction with other species reshape our perspectives? In the spring of 2020 Arne Hendriks started building pigeon towers with living...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
7Jun 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
3Jun 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
17May 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Lina Litz, Nesie Wang
Plants are it!
13Mar 2023The Mind Garden project aims to create inclusive garden spaces for storytelling beyond negative labels associated with mental diversity. For this roundtable, we invited three guests to share insights...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Janny Vos
Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI
Dr. Janny Vos is Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI – an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and...
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Remko Andeweg
Urban botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur
Remko Andeweg works as a city botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur, part of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. He specialized in the flora of the urban-industrial environment, vegetation...
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Mas Jansma
My name is Mas. I've lived in the center of Amsterdam all of my life. I love to see the countless ways in which life finds its way in the city. Plants arrest my attention whenever they do something I...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
20May 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...