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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Harbour
- Transforming Scents into Melody with Mariko Hori6Mar 2022Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? -Of course not! Well, now you have the chance to experience transforming your interpretations of a scent into music. Guided by artist...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori26Mar 2022Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori5Mar 2022Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori12Feb 2022Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Colelction O'Tristana
by Zeger Reyers
Oysters are locked in their own enclosing and homemade houses. Once they settle, that's it, they never move again. A sad thing according to artist Zeger Reyers. For his exhibition 'O' Tristana he...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
(cancelled) Under the Harbour
- Transforming Scents into Melody with Mariko Hori9Jan 2022Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? -Of course not! Well, now you have the chance to experience transforming your interpretations of a scent into music. Guided by artist...
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cancelled Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Harbour
- with Mariko Hori4Dec 2021Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? Or experienced transforming your interpretations of a scent into music? Guided by artist Mariko Hori, come experience the Oosterdok in...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
T - Under the Harbour
- Transforming Scents into Melody1Jan 4300Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? -Of course not! Well, now you have the chance to experience transforming your interpretations of a scent into music. Guided by artist...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Harbour
- with Mariko Hori10Oct 2021Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? Or experienced transforming your interpretations of a scent into music? Guided by artist Mariko Hori, come experience the Oosterdok in...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori11Dec 2021Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori28Nov 2021Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori9Oct 2021Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Kintsugi
- with Mariko Hori11Sep 2021Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
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Exhibition:
Kunstformen der Natur in MoCA Busan
4May 202122Sep 2021The Kunstformen der Natur exhibition is back. This time in Korea, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, as part of the Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment exhibition. In this era of growing...
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Timeline of Pigeon Towers
Since the summer of 2020, we have been experimenting with different forms and methods of building pigeon towers with mycelium. Each structure in this timeline contributes to the research. Click on a...
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Waèl el Allouche
Artist and Designer Wael el Allouche (TN/NL) graduated from the design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He is interested in the way abstractions, such as Data and Algorithms, shape reality...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021
From Packaging to Beaver Skin
How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1
The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Reward of Patience
Myco-beauty
An important element with the Mycelium Pigeon Towers is patience. We waited about two weeks before we took off the tarp and we could see steam coming off. There was this white tower in front of us.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Defining the Shape
Square and Round
Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
The Power of Eight
From Octaves to Da Vinci
After the square and round tower try-out, we tried to build in an Octagonal shape. Finally we had succes! Apart from it being the right shape to keep the bricks together, the number 8 also became an...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt
Building-Blocks
Different ways to build an octagon
What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
with Annemarie Verschoor
A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions of plants and their anatomy, and you will...
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Oct 2020 - March 2021
Nadine Schütz
Exhibition and Communications Assistant
My name is Nadine and I recently graduated from the University of Art and Design in Linz (Austria) where I did a bachelor’s course in graphic design and photography. As an exhibition intern at...
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Structure
We are building a Pigeon Tower #4
Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works?