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  • Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Tower Artist

    Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...

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  • 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...

  • Primrose to Pigeon Tower

    Gregory Bateson famously asked: ‘What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?’

    It is this very inquiry into the nature of how everything is connected so central to Bateson's life that also lies underneath the existence of the waste mycelium pigeon towers that have emerged in...

  • What's Next Tower?

    The right for living architecture to be unpredictable

    Al ruim 3 jaar stapelen we blokken myceliumafval van een oesterzwamkweker op elkaar. Omdat het materiaal leeft groeien de blokken aan elkaar vast en dit geeft de stapels een zekere mate van verband.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

    Britt's First Flush

    The overwhelming happiness one feels when confronted with oyster mushroom abundance.

    Britt Vendel recently joined Arne Hendriks in the pigeon tower building team. It is always heartwarming to witness the joy people experience when first confronted with the generous abundance of these...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Props for Pigeons

    Making pigeon stuff for Gentle Disco enrichment

  • 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...

  • 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 Parents

    Georgia and Arne talk about their four pigeon children.

    After two weeks of house arrest to allow their homing instincts to mature and feel at home in the mycelium pigeon tower we opened the door. Our pigeon children are now free to go where they want. It'...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Georgia Dalloro

    The Squabs are Here!

    Welcoming our feathered friends to Mediamatic

    After weeks of preparation the squabs (young pigeons) are finally here! Arne put the last changes in the pigeon tower loft last week, changing the roof from a flat one to one that can be opened (cut...

  • How to hold a pigeon

    Learning from our new squabs

    Yesterday we welcomed our new squabs (young pigeons) into their new home, at the top of Chim (tower n.11). 

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné

    Meeting Mycelium

    First Encounters at Dutch Design Week

    The material is strange, thick, sometimes oozing, with an odor that rises up just after you break open the plastic.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné

    Making Myco-clay

    Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material

    RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix

  • 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? 

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

    Commence Operation

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #2

    During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie

    Ins & Outs / Do's & Dont's

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #1

    In this blog series we will share the findings we have discovered after every workshop. There will be many questions found here regarding the process of building the tower both from us and those who...

  • Bibliography

    Here you find a collection of books and images used as sources for the Myco-Assemblage

    Shelter – Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton (1973)

  • Mycelium Pigeon Towers

    Collection of Design Research Questions

    Is mycelium waste from the oyster mushroom industry an effective material to build with? Can we build structures to house Amsterdams feral pigeons? Do pigeons accept a mycelium structure as a place...

  • 'We zijn geobsedeerd door Groei'

    Interview met Arne Hendriks op de Rabobank

    Wij zijn geobsedeerd door groei, vindt Arne Hendriks, kunstenaar en artist in residence bij de Rabobank. Met zijn kunstproject The Incredible Shrinking man onderzoekt hij al acht jaar of we een...

  • Low-tech & High-brow

    images from your kitchen sink

    A painting looks like it has been painted. A photograph looks like it has been photographed. And yet, I am not bothered by an image being so obviously silkscreened. Why is it then, that I am so...

  • Cosplay

    or how a bunch of dressed up kids are changing reality

    In the nineties the otaku spent life in a cocoon, locked in gadget-filled bedrooms, surfing the web, consuming information like there was no tomorrow.

  • Time progressing to the right

    Mateusz Herczka's reformulation of the real

    A short interview with visual artist and choreographer Mateusz Herczka about his work process and his incredible film 44/13, recently shown in Mediamatic.

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