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  • Image: Caroline Aravicius, Gentle Ink

    Participant choosing one of Gentle Ink's tattoo…

    During Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week, Amsterdam-based tattoo artists  Gentle Ink  do free tattoos inspired from the lithographs on Ernst Haeckel's  Kunstformen der Natur, as well as tattoos...
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  • lithography
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  • We all know turtles and kangaroos - but what…

    A reinterpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals

    “We cannot describe the cries of admiring joy let loose by an enthusiastic public. In the immense oeuvre of Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals is certainly one of his magnificent...

  • Biodiversity Meets Fashion

    Amsterdam Fashion Academy x Mediamatic

    The city of Amsterdam, a metropolitan with the largest city population in the Netherlands, has always been a center for fashion, music festivals, and diversity. The city is characterized as “slightly...

  • Mycelium insulation panels

    First experiments

    This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gökçe Baykan

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered Blog

    "Institutions and enterprises have joined forces as Expeditie Oosterdok, to form an internatio­nal, innovative city quarter in which discovery plays a central role. The future of the city is being...

  • 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...

  • Let's stitch!

    From sewing to species: An interview with Inge Naaimachines

    During Dutch Design Week we will be collaborating with various artists, makers and scientists. Inge Naaimachines is a creative business based in Eindhoven who will be providing the sewing machines to...

  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • Kristel Peters

    Growing shoes with Mycelium

    Researcher Kristel Peters explores the possibilities of combining traditional shoe material with fungi.

  • The Haeckel Project

    As some of you might have already noticed, reaching our location became a bit of an adventure due to construction works near Oosterdok. Yet, we are not isolated on our island, but there are still...

  • Blogs

    Research, updates and interviews for Inhuman Carnaval

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  • A Short Introduction to Interdisciplinary Artist…

    It’s difficult to introduce Sonja, because there is no one specific word that can define her profession. Her work does not fit easily into standard categories: it includes art objects, living...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...
  • Project: Quinten Wolters

    Hup Holland Hoofddoek

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter.

  • Save Your Pearly White Teeth

    Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus

    Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS Maurizio Montalti 1 Jan 2011

    The Ephemeral Icon

    Infusing life to trigger a process of final dissolution

    A design-research project looking at the study and the application of a fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, to synthetic, toxic materials: Plastics.

  • Thank you, come again.

    El HEMA koopavonden are making good progress

    Spectators arrive at El Hema exhibit a month before its grand opening and are invited to see the planning of the exhibit.

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • Cut Up Djellaba

    Customize the traditional djellaba into your fashionable tunique

    This item is a kit, where you get a white arabic djelaba and a pair of scissors. What do you need to do then? Just start cutting, and express your own style through that traditional clothing.

  • 3rd Round photos

    These photos were taken during the 3rd Round: the third meeting about fixed gear bikes. Here you can see proud owners and their bikes posing in front of Ottograph's work.
  • Project cedric flazinski

    MyDesigner

    User-based form-giving

    How the individual makes form more relevant in identity-related products. A brief description of Cedric Flazinski 's Master thesis project, MyDesigner, at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2008.

  • SensorMania

    Notes from the e-Fashion day

    Interactive fashion needs technology. If we want our clothes to move, sense and light up, then we will need the materials to do this for us. There are a lot of very interesting materials out there
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 1#4 Pablo Collette 1 Apr 1987

    Are you being served?

    Een gat in de markt van videokunst

    Op de eerste pagina van het vorige nummer van MEDIAMATIC serveerde de redactie de lezer het smakelijk ogende ontbijtje (1613) van FLORIS VAN DIJCK. Ikzelf zou de uitgestalde waren, zoals kazen

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

created Iliana Metaxa modified Anne Hofstra

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