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Willem Velthoven
In Heaven, there is no Information.
I'm an award winning designer, learner and cultural enterpreneur. I co-founded Mediamatic in 1983. I worked as director of mediamatic till summer 2024 together with my co-founder Jans Possel. I am...
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Jans Possel
founder
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Annemarie Verschoor
Artist and Biologist
Annemarie's current knotweed projects
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Anne Kamps
In 2019 studeerde ik af aan de Design Academy, department food non food. Tijdens mijn studie richtte ik mij vooral op onderzoek en de vertaling hiervan naar tekst en beeld. Het boek “De Zesvleugelige...
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Arne Hendriks
Pigeon Tower Artist
Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...
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Frank Bloem
Artist, Curator and Aroma Lab Supervisor
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.
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Lynn Shore
Herbalist and foraging teacher
The natural world has always deeply fascinated me – we are part of it and need to respect it. I express this through teaching, writing and being in green spaces. My professional background is in...
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Margherita Soldati
Margherita has a strong interest in tactility and tactile perception at the intersection of art and healthcare, supported by material research with a focus on the creation of patterns and textures. ...
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Mariko Hori
Born in Kobe, Japan, Mariko Hori studied architecture and is currently working as an artist between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Belgrade, Serbia . She has recently participated in Folkestone...
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Niels Albers
Niels Albers is a Dutch artist and designer living and working in Amsterdam. In 2010 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Audio-Visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. After obtaining...
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Saro Van Cleynenbreugel
I work with Mediamatic since February 2011. At the moment I'm self employed at zone5 . I’m nifty with media and I love to be the helping hand, whenever I'm needed. I love to explore interactivity in...
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Ruchama Noorda
para-conceptual artist
Ruchama Noorda is an artist who uses diverse media and materials in performances and installations. In 2002 Noorda graduated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and she completed her MFA at...
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Organization:
Shaffy's Tuin
Public Garden in the Dijksgracht
A garden in the city centre created by volunteers in the Dijksgracht. It's situated between Mediamatic, Hannekes Boom and the Klimmuur. The Dijksgracht is totally renovated and this temporary...
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Organization:
Verbruggen Paddestoelen
Verbruggen Paddestoelen B.V. is een echt familiebedrijf. De door Piet Verbruggen opgezette paddenstoelenkwekerij wordt inmiddels al weer vele jaren door zijn zoon John voortgezet.
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Emma Fukuwatari Huffman
Emma Fukuwatari Huffman (she/her) is a designer practising and researching visible mending and caring. She believes mending is an act of both care and rebellion much needed in this day and age and...
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Rachel Barfield
Aroma Lab Tutor
I am an olfactory artist from The Hague. Coming from the Royal Academy of Arts with a background in Neuroscience and Biology, I focus my research on scent function and its reactionary effects. Using...
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Martine Albitrouw-Segijn
Artist, Open Aroma Lab for Kids
Martine has a great interest, great love for odours, smells form nature, anything smelly that appeals to her. She is helping run Open Aroma Lab for Kids.
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Pauline Wiersema
Social Practice Artist
Pauline's current knotweed project
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Willem Wits
Artist
Wits' work can be described as Gesamtkunst, a combination of media around a central story or concept.
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Claudia van den Hoeven
Educator and autism specialist at HKU
Claudia works as a study coach, lecturer and autism specialist at the Academy of the Arts Utrecht (HKU). There, she organised the project 'iets eten' together with her colleague Gerard van Wolferen
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Dasha Tsapenko
Artist
Dasha Tsapenko is a bio-designer, who works with elements of art, fashion and material research. She investigates alternative production processes in (textile) design and is inspired by symbiotic...
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Ruslana Goncharuk
Artist
Ruslana Goncharuk was born in Yavoriv, a village in western Ukraine, known for its weaving traditions, passed on from generation to generation. Ruslana learned this craft from her grandmother and...
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Marjo Van Schaik
Artist
After 20 years, Marjo van Schaik resumed her work as a designer and maker of fabrics and clothes. She was educated at the Modeacademie Bijenveld in Amsterdam in the 1980s and dropped out partly...
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Marjanne van Helvert
Marjanne van Helvert is a designer , researcher and writer based in Amsterdam.
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Marc Lemonnier
Artist / musician
Marc's current knotweed projects
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Alaa Abu Asad
Artist, Researcher
Artist Alaa Abu Asad does ongoing research on unwanted species, mainly known as invasive species. The research traces the violent, xenophobic speech used to describe the Japanese knotweed and its...
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Aslı Hatipoğlu
Artist / Cook
Aslı is a textile culinary artist who's interdisciplinary social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics...
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Yoshinari Nishiki
Artist
Yoshinari's current knotweed project
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Organization:
hard//hoofd
online tijdschrift
hard//hoofd is een online tijdschrift voor kunst en journalistiek, opgericht op 20 december 2008 in café P96.
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Annelies Wina Doom
Artist and Curator
Annelies Wina Doom is a belgian conceptual installation artist curator photographer wanderer performer player dreamer wildly associative thinker Luna Blue White her cats & other stunning creatures...
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Martin Butler
Interdisciplinary artist and stage director
Martin Butler is an interdisciplinary artist, and stage director. He was trained in Drama at Manchester University UK, and then later choreography and performance at the SNDO, in Amsterdam, in the...
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Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Alice Héron
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Uno Fujisawa
Artist / Chef
Uno Fujisawa , born in Japan in 1982 and currently based in Amsterdam, is not only an artist but also a chef. Her artistic endeavours are rooted in a profound exploration of the seemingly simple...
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Silke Riis
sculptor and installation artist
Silke Riis (she/her) is a Copenhagen-born sculptor and installation artist whose work currently revolves around speculative futures and imagined species.
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Pet vd Luijtgaarden
Artist and collector
Pet van de Luijtgaarden studied communication sciences and informational law before studying photography at KABK in The Hague and pivoting an artistic career. Pet is famous for his many extensive...
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Ignacy Radtke
Visual artist
Ignacy Radtke (Iggy) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. Perceptive of modern infrastructures and environments, he connects human's sensorial and emotional activities with a reality that is often...
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Yvonne Dröge Wendel
visual artist
Yvonne Dröge Wendel is concerned with the relationship between people and objects, and the quest for challenging new ways of relating to things.
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Jam van der Aa
writer, maker, editor, speaker
Jam van der Aa is opgegroeid zonder radio en televisie en wilde als kind graag piloot worden, maar bleek kleurenblind. Als beeldend kunstenaar is dat niet heel handig en als schrijver maakt het...
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Jemima de Jonge
Visual artist and filmmaker
Jemima de Jonge (*2001) grew up in Rotterdam. She graduated with distinction in June 2023 at the KABK (Royal Academy of Visual Arts) in The Hague.
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Simone Hooymans
visual artist
Simone Hooymans (*1974), is a visual artist from the Netherlands who lives and works in Norway. Through drawing and animation, she creates elusive yet disturbing landscapes.
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Gerard van Wolferen
Musician, Educator and Autism Advocator
Gerard van Wolferen (1955) studied Composition with Theo Loevendie at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1980) and Musicology at the University van Amsterdam subjects: Theoretical Musicology and...
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Astrid Poot
Maker and Thinker
Activist, freethinker, designer, design researcher, maker and blue collar philosopher, writer…Astrid Poot puts on a lot of different hats, but in a nutshell, she is a maker and thinker. She...
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Thijmen Peters
Thijmen Peters is a communication designer whose projects start from a curiosity in everyday phenomena as waiting or swiping. Often perceived as ordinary and influenced by changing technologies these...
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Weimin Zhu
Weimin Zhu is a jewelry and object designer from China. Her designs mainly focus on creating an intimate relationship between the objects in our daily lives and ourselves, especially our inner...
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Genevieve Murphy
Composer and performer
Genevieve Murphy (*1988) is a composer and performer from Scotland, currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She combines performance and visual art with contemporary classical music and her...
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Vera Lelie
Designer
Vera Lelie (BEPA) is a fashion designer and recent graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
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Minjoo Choi
Conceptual artist
Minjoo Choi is a conceptual artist who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2022.
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Jenny Konrad
Artist and Designer
Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and materials to transform raw content into experiences that are digestible to constantly...
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Nesie Wang
Nesie loves cats and observing (everything). From China and currently studying photography at The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (KABK), she is interested in how subjectivity (mindset, emotions
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Organization:
Stichting Artistic Research
www.artisticresearch.org info@artisticresearch.org
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Image:
Miro
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Image:
Isabelle Kappetein
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Isabelle Kappetein
Diversity and Inclusivity Specialist at Miro
Isabelle Kappetein is a " Diversity and Inclusivity Specialist at Miro, Cultural Psychologist, Celebrating (Neuro)Diversity ".
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Inger Leemans
Inger Leemans is een professor Culturele geschiedenis op de Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. In haar onderzoek focust ze op de moderne culturele geschiedenis, de geschiedeis van emoties en zintuigen
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Sophie Elpers
Professor Intangible Cultural Heritage and Ethnology
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Astrid Groot
At the University of Amsterdam, Astrid Groot researches how sexual attraction is involved in the initial divergence of populations.
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Garmt Dijksterhuis
Psychological Scientist with a background in food-related perception and choice.
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Nout Verhoeven
Director Engineering at City of Amsterdam
Nout Verhoeven is Director Engineering at the municipality of Amsterdam. He is responsible for a great variety of projects concerning public spaces in Amsterdam. As a physicist, he is trained to...
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Debra Solomon
In order to concentrate on developing public space Urban Agriculture and prompted by a commission from Stroom Den Haag to develop an urban agriculture project for the Hague borough Schilderswijk
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Sus Willems
Ecological advisor
"Every landscape, no matter how big or how small, is a music score that I want to read in order to hear the music. As a green manager, you can select very specific musical notes on a stave, but in...
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Johan van Valkenburg
Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP)
Johan van Valkenburg is currently a Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP), leading research projects relating to invasive non-native...
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Jaike Bijleveld
Senior Advisor Assetmanagement Groen at Municipality of Amsterdam
Jaike Bijleveld is Coördinator invasive plantspecies, treediseases and -plagues (such as oak processionary caterpillar) and ecology for the municipality of Amsterdam. Jaike studied biology at the...
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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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Norbert Peeters
Botanical philosopher
Norbert Peeters (37) is a botanical philosopher, writer, and PhD-student at Leiden University. His dissertation focuses on the philosophy of weeds, invasive exotics, and the historical roots of...
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Niek Kosten
Graphic Designer, Design Researcher
Niek's current knotweed project
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Kristof Vrancken
Visual Artist, Photographer and Researcher
Kristof's current knotweed project
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Gjalt Jan Feersma Hoekstra
Technical Sales Consultant at Agriton
Gjalt Jan is technical Sales Consultant at Agriton who knows all about sustainable farming and food fermentation. Gjalt has also conducted many agronomical trials with bokashi and composting in the...
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Why Knot Design
Biomaterial Design Studio
Why Knot is speaking at the symposium of the Japanese Knotweed Festival
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Organization:
Krater
Production space
Krater's current knotweed project
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Edwin Keijsers
Researcher Fibres in a circular future
Edwin has been working as a researcher at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research for the last 27 years on extracting and processing natural fibres for optimal use in existing and new circular industrial...
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Gaja Mežnarić Osole
Designer
Gaja's current knotweed project
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Sebastjan Kovač
Chef and Ecologist
Sebastjan's current knotweed project
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Anke Wijnja
Wild picker, Nature coach and Bushcrafter
Anke has been eating from the wild for half her life. As a student in rotterdam, she collected "park greens," out of curiosity about what people were eating here for centuries; She immersed herself...
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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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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...