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Design Research:
Aquatoop
How can we design structures for the water, for its users and inhabitants?
Much of Amsterdam’s biodiversity is underwater. Amsterdam’s Unesco listed quays are facing one of the largest repairs in its history - 200 km of quay repairs. While focusing on preserving the land
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Haptic Lab:
Material Archive
A Material Archive is a physical and digital collection of material samples. It can be used as a tool to document, inspire, and share knowledge for design, research or academic purposes. This...
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Jolanda Verspagen
Future Speaker for the Living
Jolanda Verspagen is a phytoplankton ecologist, currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, she will become our Speaker for the Living.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Birds! Seeds! Sculptures!
- with Silke Riis5Apr 2025Mediamatic’s open city monastery is a community for everyone – including the local birds! In this workshop you will get your hands on Silke Riis’ vegan recipe for a sculptable bird seed mixture, used...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor13Oct 2024Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Cyanotype Dyeing
- A Visual Exploration of Female Reproductive Health7Sep 2024Reclaim lost knowledge about medicinal herbs! This workshop focuses on foraging for plants with potential benefits for female reproductive health. In collaboration with artist Fedora Boonaert , you'...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor8Sep 2024Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Herb Couture: Cyanotype
with Clemens Tomlow and Fedora Boonaert
Reclaim lost knowledge about medicinal herbs! This workshop focuses on foraging for plants with potential benefits for female reproductive health. In collaboration with artist Fedora Boonaert , you'...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Herb Couture: Cyanotype
- with Clemens Tomlow and Fedora Boonaert15Jun 2024Reclaim lost knowledge about medicinal herbs! This workshop focuses on foraging for plants with potential benefits for female reproductive health. In collaboration with artist Fedora Boonaert , you'...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!21Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!20Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!19Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!14Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor7Apr 2024Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!13Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Future scenarios for our beloved greenhouse
An honest review of 10+ years of aquaponics
We first started experimenting with aquaponics in 2012 at our previous location at the van Gendthallen . After more than 10 years of learning, growing and enjoying an abundance of fresh herbs, we...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor17Mar 2024Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor10Feb 2024Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Silke Riis
Some Breathe Through Their Butts
4Nov 2023- Installation by Silke Riis4Dec 2024Did you know that sea cucumbers breathe through their butts? Or that their poop plays a crucial part in coral reef’s protection against ocean acidification? With her sculptures of speculative ...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor9Dec 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Ton Denters
Ton Denters is an urban ecologist and specialist of Dutch flora, author of the reference book Stadsflora van de Lage Landen and The urban district, a biogeographical acquisition. Denters describes...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor for Weekend of Science7Oct 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one for all ages! Join us for this Weekend of Science and t ogether with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor
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Hortus Project
Knowledge about the Hortus Project Signs
The Hortus Project was implemented some time ago to teach people about the different properties of our city's flora. You can find little oval signs in the grow beds of Mediamatic, but also spread...
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Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…
Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...