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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Andrea Valdivia

    Materials setup

    This is where it start for Knit for Survival!

    This is the wool and print outs we use for Knit for Survival!  Knitting doesn't have to be hard. In our knitting sessions, you don't have to be an experienced needle worker at all. We'll provide...
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  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Fredrik Link

    How is smell used as a disguise in beings?

    Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.

    This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design Solutions

    For implementing greenhouse dining in the restaurant

    For the use of the Serres in the restaurant we are constantly making adjustments. Not only to the greenhouses themselves, but also to the way we carry out our service. What problems do we encounter?
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Soft Sabotage

    19
    Dec 2025
    1
    Dec 2026
    - by Julia Löffler

    Collective waste - once mixed and anonymized in sewage - becomes readable data. But what if this datasoup turns into datasoap? Soft Sabotage is a private intervention within a public system  which...

  • Windworks

    a triptych between three windmills by Merel Karhof

    Ever since she made her first Wind Knitting Factory , Merel Karhof had the wish to use the harvest of her factory to upholster furniture pieces.
  • 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...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft, Willem Velthoven

    Sweaters against Putin

    Mediamatic turns down the gas heaters for Ukraine whilst learning how to knit.

    We are dialing down our heating because we don't want to fund the Russian government with our gas money. We will all be wearing sweaters for Ukraine in an attempt to stop our dependency on natural...
  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Getting intimate through stitches

    Meet Desirée Hammen

    Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.
  • Private Workshop 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...
  • Proposal by: Sieta Maria van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land

    Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...

  • European Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...

  • Inspiring confusion with photographs

    A/artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel

    Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
  • Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    Project proposal: A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...

  • African Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...

  • Het Ijsfabriekje

    Het Ijsfabriekje heeft van dat hele lekker Italiaanse ijs, de salon zit naast Akgul overigens, een prima groentezaak.

  • Race bike

    ca. 1910 Collection: Bob Casemier

  • In defence of a remarkable exhibition

    The Spirit & Life exhibition

    It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic cliché exhibition". In the first place it is not, and nowhere claims to be
  • Proposal by: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Project Proposal: Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
  • Vancouver, Canada Hessel van Oorschot

    Handelsroute.nl naar Vancouver

    Ondernemersreis naar wereldtop nieuwe media, gaming, animatie en mobiele content

    AMSTERDAM, 20080220 -- Vancouver behoort tot de wereldtop van de New Media industrie met meer dan 1000 bedrijven, 15000 medewerkers en een jaaromzet van 2 miljard dollar. De regio doet er alles aan...

  • RIH Pursuit

    1989 Collection: Frank van der Sman
  • Proposal by: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Project proposal: Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft

    How do you imitate scents from nature?

    Frank speaking on NPO Radio 1 about Smelling Like Another Being

    Listen to our resident parfumier Frank Bloem as he talks about his recent workshop Smelling Like Another Being , developed here at Mediamatic, on NPO Radio 1.  

  • Priori track bike

    Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • The Visual Thinker

    Temple Grandin explores different kinds of minds

    Temple Grandin is an academic and animal behaviorist from America famous for redesigning the slaughterhouses so that cattle can be treated in a more humane way. She is also an autism spokesperson.

created Iliana Metaxa modified Andrea Valdivia

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