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  • Inflatable Clean Lab

    Portable mycelium research area

    The Inflatable Clean Lab is a portable structure consisting of HEPA filters, a blower, and plastic material. When the Clean Lab needs to be used, it will be inflated with the same blower used to...
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  • Pigeon Fertilizing Tower

    Bringing pigeons' fertilization power back into the cycle of life by collecting their shit in a pigeon tower made from recycled paper.

  • City Dust Observatory

    A raised seat within the Favela to observe and document.

  • City Dust Pavilion

    A grafik chambre separée

    www.city-dust.com* The pavilion was a box and the box was a window into modern architecture. Here you could retreat from the Freezing Favela.

  • Inside the white whale

    Studio Vacant NL (Sandberg Instituut) makes dynamic spaces from container liners (big, white bags) in which to work, meet and discover. Step into the belly of the white whale.

  • Open Cooking Platform

    In the Freezing Favela Open Cooking Platform will work together with the other food projects and now continue as Favelous . Together they create a cozy space where you can dine, drink and meet.

  • Hanging Nest

    Human-sized bird's nest

    Through his work, performance artist Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick explored the animal within him. At Mediamatic Fabriek he has began building his human-sized bird's nest. At 14th of april he did a...

  • Do not Plan

    Play the City Workshops

    This proposal did not evolve into a project We are working happily in our little office in Amsterdam Noord. However we need a large space to be able to run our city games with public. The city game...

  • Aquaponics Farm

    For homegrown fish and vegetables

    The Freezing Favela needs farmers to provide food. Aquaponics is the best way to produce food sustainably in the city. Plants and fish are cultivated together and help each other survive and grow.

  • Favelous Canteen

    DIY-dining & culinary workshops

    Favelous was a pop-up bamboo restaurant located on the ground floor of Mediamatic Fabriek. It is run by Andrea Sossi and Robert Bochove . They organized several workshops. People learned to make...

  • Fool's Gold

    Discarded items or gems and gold: what determines the true value of a piece of jewelry? These workshops have learned people how to make jewelry from the most diverse materials.

  • Bio-me

    designed with organisms

    Bio-me. 3-day of talks, masterclasses, tastings and presentations concerning all that is designed with living organisms.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Building a geodesic dome

    My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic

    Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.

  • The Poo Project

    This project was stopped due to personal reasons but will continue elsewhere Produces paper and building materials out of cow dung. The Poo Project will also investigate the production of biogas in...

  • Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!

    to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

    As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...

  • Trash Lab

    In the Trash Lab we gave a new life to materials that were regarded as waste. Using our design expertise we experimented and researched how we could transform these “trash” materials into new design...

  • Favela Yoga

    Mindful yoga in raw urban space

    In the middle of the favela there was a special room for movement, breath and relaxation. A place to come to yourself and forget your busy city life for a moment.

  • Bar Vakant

    A hotspot waterhole

  • Vegan Sundays

    Vegan cooking workshops with local products

    In Alexander's cooking workshops you prepare a vegan menu, inspired on different cultures using locally grown vegetables. Organic, unprocessed food. Next to that, Alexander, a cook and choreographer

  • 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...

  • White Trash Liquor Factory

    Citizens could use a drink

    This distillery was producing vodka and jenever from local organic waste. Even the copper that the distillery is made out of, was found in the neighborhood.
  • Book: Stuart A. Kauffman 1 Jan 1993

    Origins of Order

    Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

  • Clean Lab Report

    February 2016

    The Clean Lab has been undergoing some changes recently. The area has been cleared to make way for an all new clean space with new equipment and workbenches to facilitate the growing needs of the...

  • 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...

  • What is Bio-Design?

    For those new to the subject who would like a little clarity on what this field encompasses and what role Mediamatic takes in relation to this.

created Maurizio Montalti

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