Props for Pigeons

Making pigeon stuff for Gentle Disco enrichment

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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...
Birth of the Tree Tower

Aan de voet van de Zomerlinde verrees op 2 februari 2024 de eerste boom-mycelium toren. Geworteld in toren Nr. 3, genaamd 'Gentle', die in de afgelopen 3 jaar langzaam in rijke vruchtbare compost is...
Pigeon Tower Arne Hendriks, Hannah Leitzke

Stonk

Sept '21 - Pigeon Tower 12

Stonk is built with the waste material of the waste material. The mycelium blocks, our building material, are stacked up next to the shed. A full cycle of collecting the blocks, pressing them during...
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...
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...
Pigeon Towers

Building with Mycelium

How can we humans be better actors in the world we dwell in? The Mycelium-Waste-Pigeon-Towers are our teachers; Observe, make, reflect on the ever-changing towers who host many beings. This will take...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

Chim

Aug '21 – Pigeon Tower 11

Chim is the first tower in which we placed wooden pigeon lofts. Because the mycelium bricks shrink after construction, we created a continuous ring of lofts. These lofts were placed directly on the...
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...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

Ben

Mar '21 – Pigeon Tower 09

Ben is the first tower that we expect to actually house pigeons. The interior space is large enough, there are places and willow branches for the pigeons to sit and four cut-outs have been made for...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

Pigeon Cam

On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...

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