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    Page from Shelter by Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton…

    With over 1,000 photographs, Shelter is a classic celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat. It includes a history of shelter and the evolution of building types:...
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  • 10 Reasons why I love you.

    How the public is involved in creating our activities and is slowly becoming our colleague.

    A talk at the "Kom je ook?" symposium on web2.0 for culture and heritage. 14 november 2008, Mediamatic at OBA Amsterdam. This is presentation is listing 10+ examples of successful public involvement...
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    Geschiedenis

    Aroma Lab

    In 2017 is het Aroma Lab opgezet voor ontwerpers die willen experimenteren met geur. Klara Ravat was de eerste gebruiker van het lab. Zij was in 2017 de artist-in-residence.

  • Residency: Scent and Protest

    During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’. 

  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

    Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Carpenting

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...

  • Fermentation, Fungi and Farming.

    New workshops coming up.

    In order to design sustainable products and biomaterials, you first have to learn how to work with micro-organisms yourself. With 3 different workshops, we offer you the chance to learn about beer...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
  • Proposal by: Samar Khan

    Plants as Spatial Choreographers

    Project proposal: letting plants design our living-rooms

    My guiding question is: How can plants dances form the basis of multi-species architectural design? I am currently working with the belief that plants are  dancers. This follows from observations...

  • Level 3: Consoles

    Interactive entertainment computers

    Atari, Commodore, Sega and more. These are the consoles on display in the Arcade exhibition. This level was opened on January 22nd 2011.

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...

  • Jet Rocket, Sega, 1970

    Arcade flight simulator and the gem of our collection

    Jet Rocket, released by SEGA in 1970, is a flight simulator that makes use of visual techniques which were also used for military flight simulators. By playing with a real controller stick in a...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    21
    Mar 2026
    - with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...
  • Aromathèque #12 Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Burden of Ancestors

    26
    Feb 2026
    - Re-ecologizing ourselves through ancestry

    What role do our ancestors continue to play in our daily lives? Do we carry the weight of generations on our shoulders, and how might we release ourselves from the pressure of ancestral beliefs
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 0#0 Jans Possel 1 Jan 1985

    Media/Rituals/ Design

    Ug0 la Pietra, designing the future.

    The modern family eats a microwave heated meal watching television commercials for Mac Donalds, Heineken, Heinz Sandwichspread, Mars Bars, Teachers Whisky, Weetabix, Birds Eye which alternate with a...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Geodesic dome research

    Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.

    Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.
  • Pop-Up Cafe

    The Last Sweat Party in the Pop-Up basement

    The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. Created by Eline Mul and Karolien Buurman, it's a place that looks and...

  • The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…

    Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
  • Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten

    Open Ateliers 2006

    Ateliers van de Rijksakademie.

    Bezoek de ateliers van de Rijksakademie en bekijk het werk van kunstenaars in hun atelier.

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