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  • Venue Mediamatic Biotoop

    Funeral Service

    a special space for a final goodbye

    All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...

  • Sustainability
  • Death
  • Community
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  • Venue Mediamatic Biotoop

    Weddings

    A place for happiness. Getting married in your own way

    Weddings are times of joy and happiness. There is no better way to start a life together than at Mediamatic, where creativity and uniqueness are put on a pedestal. Our venue offers a beautiful...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • How to Deal with Death Online

    Death on the internet

    Although most social network sites and online games today enforce extensive regulations on their members, one issue is continuously overlooked or ignored: what happens to a profile or an avatar when...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark Lisa Witte

    Twijfel Zaaien zichtbaar maken

    De eerste stappen naar een betere communicatie op locatie

    Wat zien voorbijgangers als ze langs Twijfel Zaaien lopen? Valt het project hen op, begrijpen ze het en zouden ze eraan mee willen doen? Het zal niet gebeuren als Mediamatic niet goed over het...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...

  • Tour Mediamatic Biotoop

    Private Tour of Mediamatic

    Get a glimpse behind the scenes, peak inside our sensorial labs, and learn more about the bio art installations around the Biotoop during our weekly tour on Friday! Ticket + drink

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    with Susanne Duivensteijn

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...

  • Book: Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, first published in February 1999.

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Mediamatic in twenty-six words

    21
    Mar 2019

    Information Mediamatic in keywords Open 24/7 Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark 6, Amsterdam The mural is located on the windows of the Sluisdeurenloods, right next to the bridge connecting to the...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Ticket Terms & Conditions

    What do you agree with when you buy a ticket?

    1. General ticket conditions We have   house rules. Buying a ticket means that you agree with these house rules. By ticket we mean any admission ticket to Mediamatic. This can vary from a ticket...

  • Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar

    Can the dead still be involved in social networking?

    There are a lot of websites that revolve around remembering the dead. For instance, Tributes is a site where you can search obituaries and make a tribute to your lost loved one; they say '60-seconds...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.

  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Friday Tour

    16
    Jan 2026

    Get a glimpse behind the scenes, peek inside our sensorial labs, and learn more about the bio-art installations around the Biotoop during our weekly tour on Friday! Ticket + drink

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...

  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Friday Tour - Hydroponics Edition

    30
    Jan 2026

    Discover the wonders of our hydroponics during our weekly Friday tour! Peek inside our urban farm, and learn about the innovative bio-art installations around the Biotoop with our greenhouse and...

  • Spammers

    How to take them down?

    Typically they introduce themselves as being a female figure looking for a 'friend'. They post the same (google-translated-) text on a bunch of user-profiles. It's not only irritating to users, it...

  • Çapul expierences from Taksim Gezi Park..

    Sharing experiences, memorys with pictures and videos of chapullers from Taksim.. Active debate, brainstorming with music from çapul band

  • Film: Programmeerbare lego/Remko Scha, Willem Velthoven, Peter Luining, Stagecast, Remko Scha, Sander Kessels, ZEBRA, Pieter van der Ploeg, Stagecast, Dick Rijken 1 Jan 1999

    Workshop 3

    Auteur van gedrag

    06/02/99

  • 1 Jan 1997

    Community with an Object

    Developing Business in Developing countries

    Mediamatic Lab built a cool web 2.0 community network for Dutch Development Aid organisation NCDO. BiD Network uses semantic web, FOAF and tagging to help entrepreneurs in developing countries build...

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • A Collective Meal

    Bring and share...

    A large eat&drink event where all people of Amsterdam will be invited to bring food&drinks and share them with all others...

  • Project: Donna Wolf

    Déiska

    Swapping artworks for business services

    Déiska is an organization that provides a broad range of business services to carefully selected young artists. The services are tailored to the needs of the young artists as they establish...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

created Margot Holtman modified Marcel Sturing

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