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  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Sound, Space, Sex

    9
    Feb 2023
    - Project Presentation with Renata De Bonis, Samar Khan and Lena Kuzmich

    Nature is dualistic: it can be beautiful yet display ugliness, safe but also dangerous, kind and at the same time cruel. Nature can teach us a lot about who we are and how the world around us is...
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Looking back at "Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots"…

    with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol

    Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots workshop was a culmination of the research and collaboration between interns from Mediamatic Clean Lab and Aquaponics Greenhouse. We're not hosting this workshop anymore
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

    Chim

    Aug '21 – Pigeon Tower 11

    Chim is the first tower in which we placed wooden pigeon lofts. Because the mycelium bricks shrink after construction, we created a continuous ring of lofts. These lofts were placed directly on the...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
  • 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...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    City Foraging for Mental Health

    20
    Jul 2025
    - 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

    Kombucha collection

    with Saskia Frederiks

    The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Rocket Stove

    1
    Jan 2016
    - by Hein Kramer

    A highly efficient stove made almost entirely from reclaimed materials, Hein Kramer's rocket stove can easily reach 1000 degrees and is virtually non-polluting. When you visit our restaurant, you...
  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Rosalie Bak

    Until death makes us parts

    Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy

    This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...
  • 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...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...
  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation

    with Saskia Frederiks

    The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Firing

    June '21

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    ijKruid

    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 Dijkspark at any moment.
  • Proposal by: Lena Kuzmich

    Expanding Kin

    Project Proposal: video installation on multi-species world-building

    "Expanding Kin" is a video installation on multi-species world-building and consists of a short film and a physical installation organized as seating islands. The work examines the potential of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Nature needs Heroes

    Wereldwijde campagne voor een groenere toekomst

    Timberland gelooft dat een groenere toekomst een betere toekomst is. Het merk zet zich als onderdeel van haar streven naar een groenere toekomst in om 50 miljoen bomen te planten voor 2025. Het merk...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

    The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...
  • 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...
  • 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 
  • Proposal by: Renata De Bonis

    Sex, drugs, and death serenades

    Project proposal: Horny zombie cicadas and their hallucinogens songs

    Introduction to the project With the project entitled “Sex, drugs, and death serenades: Horny zombie cicadas’ and their hallucinogens songs”, I intend to investigate a parasite fungus that produces...
  • Book: James M. Barrie

    Peter Pan and Wendy

    Peter Pan or the Boy who wouldn't grow up

    Peter Pan and Wendy is James M. Barrie’s most famous work, first a play in 1904 and then turned into a novel in 1911.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?

created Suzanne Vivies Dupeyrat modified Sandra Ruiz Castroviejo

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