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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics3Feb 2019Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics2Dec 2018Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
"How did you make it?" Curiosity from…
Today 4 colleagues helped us tested the eating experience with our idea from last blog: what if people rip off the mycelium to eat the food inside? What if the food is already grown with mycelium and...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Experience the Moulds: Somewhere between Food and…
As lab interns, we already get used to eating our lab-grown moulds. Now let's step away from our perspective: how many of you are afraid of eating fungus, even knowing that a large part of our...
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Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė
Chef Tommaso Buresti has something to say about…
As nice as it is to play with a raw tempeh, eating it unprepared is not the best idea. Jiwei and I sneaked into the kitchen to cook our samples (about which you can read in the previous post ).
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Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė
Are you prepared for the Halloween?
This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
A Taste from the Ocean: Poppy Seed Mycelium
It smells like...fish!
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Dinner First Trial!
Buckwheat and bulgur tempeh sheets' first trial for closed food
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
Buckwheat Tempeh Tastes like Black Bread!
In order to find out a nice taste of tempeh ware, we have been growing fungus rhizopus oryzae on different ingredients. This time we tried bulgur, buckwheat, corns and pop corns.
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Mediamatic Eten, Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
It smells like fresh bread!
As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh + Pizza = Tempehzza?
Tempeh as the dough and top of a pizza
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh is made into sheet materials!
Cooking tempeh as a sheet material
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Ware is potential in street food wrap!
Inspired by a lot of starch-based street food, Mediamatic is developing tempeh-based eating tool. Eat tempeh as food and as an eating tool at the same time!
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Ware with Flavour
Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting
A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics16Sep 2018Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Experimenting Smell on Mycelium
Which smell source will neutralise the smell of the substrate bostel?
Mycelium can grow on beer brewery wastes now. However, it has a unpleasant farm smell. We want to make the fungi material smells good so that it can make people feel good while using it. What kind of...
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How to tackle the whitefly?
Whiteflies are an issue that many people who have a garden outside or in a greenhouse struggle with. Luckily there are many organic solutions for this problem. This article will discuss three types...
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Jiwei Zhou
Designing with Mycelium
Interning in the clean lab, doing research and design with new mycelium materials
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DNA Portraits
DNA by Marc Quinn
When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Sieta van Horck
The Secret Life of Plants Blog #1
Experiment Overview
Natural surroundings have a big impact on the energy and well-being of organisms. They respond to physical movements within their environment. For instance, known structured patterns like sunlight...
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Intimate Currency
Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim
With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
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The Chair That Bleeds
The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim
We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...
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Save Your Pearly White Teeth
Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus
Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession
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Could In-Vitro Leather be the new Pleather?
Pure Human by Tina Gorjanc
Tina Gorjanc proposes a whole fashion collection using biotechnical engineering. Similar to in-vitro meat, she would produce leather for her collection from a DNA hair sample from Alexander McQueen...