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Karela
Momordica charantia
Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
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Organization:
Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library was founded in 2014 and works to find and preserve ancient seed varieties and traditional farming practices. It works to preserve the area’s rare and precious seed...
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Vivien Sansour
Multi-media artist and Biodiversity advocate
Vivien Sansour is the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. Trained in the field of Anthropology, Vivien worked with farmers worldwide on issues relating to agriculture and independence...
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Elena Braida
Artist and Food experience designer
Sharing - Making - Food - Textile - Texture Elena Braida likes to start her project from a personal perspective. She moves her attention towards the material, where her research process starts. This...
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One recipe, two hands, three generations
A conversation with Elena Braida
For her graduation piece at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Elena Braida created Cucina, è bello! a workshop cooking experience. Through making gnocchi from her grandmothers’ homemade recipe, she asks...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
Gentle
Pigeon Tower 04
Period: 23 October 2020 Mycelium: Grey Oyster Mushroom. Rectangular blocks. Weather: - Supplier: John Verbruggen Paddestoelen B.V. Type: Round diameter 180cm, height 160cm.
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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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Waew Jeeraphat Voraphotmuangman
Founder of the Waew Food Program
Waew ( Jeeraphat Voraphotmuangman), is a creative artist and chef who aims at combining art and food in order to create powerful experiences and messages for the public. Waew has developed the Waew...
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Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Happiness
- Odorama 43 with Frank Bloem, Pavel van Houten, Niels van Poecke and Mathilde van Otterloo24Jun 2021We are planning an Odorama for after the lockdown. Taking into account the dark winter days, the economic downturn and an ongoing pandemic, we would like to bring some light to the stage of Odorama...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Weeding Sessions
- Tuesdays8Sep 2020A Rendez-vous in the Hortus Dijkspark to make the garden ready for Autumn.
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Pigeon Towers across the world
A visual collection
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Pigeon Towers
We are building with living mycelium waste
Is it a mushroom farm? Is it a tower? Is it fertile soil? Is it a corn field? Is it a pigeon tower? By Arne Hendriks The mycelium pigeon tower is a constant process of one state moving into the next.
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Events
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11Dec 2020This Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
La Cocina Presents: Staging a Banquet
- Lecture by Tina Harris31Oct 2020Like plants and people, recipes travel all over the world. They adapt to, but also influence, the context and ingredients available. This event alludes to the importance of reflecting on the effects...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Friday Tour
27Nov 2020Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes inside our various labs and sensorial exhibitions. Free Entrance ( RSVP )
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Friday Tour
20Nov 2020Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes inside our various labs and sensorial exhibitions. Free Entrance ( RSVP )
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Friday Tour
16Oct 2020Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes inside our various labs and sensorial exhibitions. Free Entrance ( RSVP )
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Take a seat and lean in: The poetry of Code Noir
Reflecting on representation and language with Rachel Rumai Diaz
Following the end of the Code Noir dinner series, I had a chat with Rachel Rumai Diaz-- the spoken word artist behind the poetry that breathed life into the culinary journey of our latest Neo
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Garri
Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'
“Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
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Asian Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...
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African Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...
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European Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...