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  • Image: Erik Diekstra

    Desert by homecooks during Freezing Favela…

    On May 5th we asked neighborhood cooks to prepare foods that to them symbolized freedom. The Favelous chefs did the same, resulting in a beautiful, day-long freedom meal.

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  • Melt Ice cream factory

    Popsicles in crazy shapes

    In and around a colorful pop-up wagon we, Leonie and Eva, sell our crazy shaped popsicles. And we don't just sell them, we design and produce the ice cream as well. We design popsicles in all kinds...

  • A Night in the Hot Love Nest

    A warm and unique experience

    Spend an adventurous night in this extraordinary single bed. It's heated by a compost heap underneath, spreading a smell of woodlands. The Hot Love Nest is located in the centre of the Freezing...

  • Claim our 5 x 5 stage for your shows & rehearsals

    Presentation floor available at Mediamatic Fabriek

    We built a smooth, 25 m2 wooden platform in the middle of our project space. The floor is part of Freezing Favela , 
an exhibition and community of designers, cooks and other makers working...

  • Studio/presentation space available at Mediamatic…

    Join the Freezing Favela and work with us

    The Freezing Favela is a temporary city at Mediamatic Fabriek, Oostenburg Amsterdam. Here, designers, cooks and other makers work autonomously together. Are you looking for a space to experiment

  • Wanted: designer

    Trash Lab is looking for an extra set of hands

    Trash Lab is a project by Gabriela Bustamante and Senko Kabbes. They're looking for a third designer who is interested in working with them and can come in approximately three days a week. As part of...

  • A night in the Round Rest

    In the middle of the Favela

    Spend a night in a round bed. The Round Rest is standing in a greenhouse, at the centre of the Freezing Favela , a temporary settlement in Mediamatic. There are all kinds of art projects in the big...

  • The White Trash Factory

    First sip of vodka

    In collaboration with Alexander Krone (Denmark) and André Avelãs (Portugal) our favela started producing white spirits out of organic trash collected from the neighbourhood. During Slum Sessions #2...

  • De Tostifabriek ligt even stil

    Kunstproject op Oostenburg Amsterdam

    19 April 2013: De Tostifabriek is een levende kunstinstallatie en is onderdeel van de tentoonstelling Freezing Favela. De Fabriek, die geen echte fabriek is maar waar wel dingen gemaakt worden

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou

    It smells like fresh bread!

    As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...

  • Cuban Blood Sausages

    Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

    Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...

  • Body as Atomiser

    Swallowable Parfum by Lucy McRae

    If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh Ware with Flavour

    Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting

    A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten. 

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou

    A Taste from the Ocean: Poppy Seed Mycelium

    It smells like...fish!

  • Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

    De Day After

    De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.

  • Not Just Blood

    Take This, For It Is My Body, Unsettling Suite, by Sarah Jane Norman

    For Australian-Aboriginal artist Sarah Jane Norman, blood has been used to represent the Aboriginals’ dark colonial history. ‘Take This, For It Is My Body’ is an interactive performance piece where 6...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh Dinner First Trial!

    Buckwheat and bulgur tempeh sheets' first trial for closed food

  • Tempeh Tasting Adventures

    Exciting our taste buds with a sustainable source of protein

    Clean Lab Interns Elnaz and Magdalena delved into another series of testing and tasting Tempeh preparations.

  • Healing, desire and breast milk

    Curdle by Zoo

    Breast milk is the "embodiment" of human nurture, of healing and nourishment of the newborn. It is well documented to contain vital immunological and medicinal replenishing qualities as well as...

  • 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.

  • Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė

    Chef Tommaso Buresti has something to say about…

    As nice as it is to play with a raw tempeh, eating it unprepared is not the best idea. Jiwei and I sneaked into the kitchen to cook our samples (about which you can read in the previous   post ).

  • The Nutritional Value of Acorns

    What can acorns bring to the table?

    Acorns - the fruits of the oak tree - have a remarkable nutritional profile that have great potential health benefits

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

    Experience the Moulds: Somewhere between Food and…

    As lab interns, we already get used to eating our lab-grown moulds. Now let's step away from our perspective: how many of you are afraid of eating fungus, even knowing that a large part of our...

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

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