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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Àmber van de Ven

    Participant focused on drawing her plant

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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi

    Cooking with essential oils.

    What does ylang ylang, orange blossom or rose essential oils taste like?

    Do you know that about 70% of our taste comes from our nose? Our taste is basically nothing  without our nose.  In fact, have you ever noticed that when you catch a cold the food tastes different?
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Distilling a Scent Bouquet

    21
    May 2023
    - with Frank Bloem

    During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Hortus Dijkspark

    Starting from Dijkspark, we're mapping the plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Tasting before wasting

    Optimizing our African Catfish feed

    My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Open Aroma Lab

    30
    Mar 2023
    - with Rachel Barfield

    Come by every Wednesday and Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 (16:00 till 18:00 or 18:00 till 20:00) for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be able to experiment with...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Distilling a Scent Bouquet

    16
    Apr 2023
    - with Frank Bloem

    During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

    Folk

    May '21 – Pigeon Tower 10

    To make sure the tower has a stable foundation we re-press the mycelium blocks using the weight of our bodies. Two to five people stand on the top of the mycelium wall, hold hands, and slowly move or...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Open Aroma Lab

    29
    Mar 2023
    - with Rachel Barfield

    Come by every Wednesday and Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 (16:00 till 18:00 or 18:00 till 20:00) for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be able to experiment with...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

    Ben

    Mar '21 – Pigeon Tower 09

    Ben is the first tower that we expect to actually house pigeons. The interior space is large enough, there are places and willow branches for the pigeons to sit and four cut-outs have been made for...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Elderflower Champagne 2.0

    Popping champagne straight from the garden!

    The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L!  Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Responsible Knotweed Foraging

    16
    Apr 2023
    - with Lynn Shore

    Yes, you are now excited about Japanese knotweed just like us! You may even have found a patch of them close to you. What next? Learn how to forage knotweed in a responsible way. Join Lynn Shore on...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Romantic Ruin

    Dec '21

    Winter is knocking on our door and the Tumulus vegetation is preparing to hibernate.  This patch of nature is still holding its green for the most part but some plants have decayed to fall colours...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Hermit Hut II: Ruin

    Jan '22

    ruin - n-   late Old English, "act of giving way and falling down", from Latin  ruina  "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down.” - Online dictionary of etymology 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Symposium

    14
    Apr 2023
    15
    Apr 2023
    - Lets talk Japanese knotweed!

    Over the course of two days Mediamatic invites experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. During the event we will unpack the plant that so often is...

  • The real story behind natural perfumery

    Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?

    "Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Building With Mycelium

    with Arne Hendriks

    Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Plant Properties

    Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Open Aroma Lab

    20
    Apr 2023
    - with Frank Bloem and Rachel Barfield

    Come by every Wednesday and Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 (16:00 till 18:00 or 18:00 till 20:00) for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be able to experiment with...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nour Akoum, Niklaus Mettler, Frank Bloem, Francesca Nicchiotti

    Raw Materials

    The material collection is the core of the Aroma Lab and covers with more than 200 raw materials the basic range of synthetic- and natural's used in perfumery. The materials we use for the Open Aroma...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Open Tour

    Every Friday at 4

    Come explore Mediamatic as part of our weekly Friday Tour at 16:00. Get a glimpse behind the scenes, learn more about the growing installations and peek inside our sensorial labs. 
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Responsible Knotweed Foraging

    30
    Apr 2023
    - with Lynn Shore

    Yes, you are now excited about Japanese Knotweed just like us! You may even have found a patch of them close to you. What next? Learn how to forage knotweed in a responsible way. Join  Lynn Shore  ...

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