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  • Wat te doen met het uienoverschot?

    Uienboer Jo Flens zit met een overschot van 200 ton uien. Zijn schuur moet leeg, maar hij raakt de uien aan de straatstenen niet kwijt.
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  • Internship

    Internship: Aquaponics

    Help us to grow vegetables and fish in this ecologically sustainable system!

    As an intern aquaponics you are involved in designing, building and taking care of the systems. You also help with organising the workshops and organise the educational program for schools. We are...

  • From the Farm to the Fridge

    The wasteful cycles of the food supply chain

    1.3 billion tons of edible parts of food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted globally every year! With simultaneous global food shortages and wasteful overproduction of crops, there...

  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...

  • Over Datum Eetclub joins forces with Giro555

    Organize your own Over Datum Eetclub during the Week for the Horn

    Over Datum Eetclub's anti-food waste resistance will now dedicate itself to the situation in Africa. The Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia) is currently experiencing the worst drought in...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Bokashi: How to

    Bokashi introduction

    At the back of our kitchen you will see we have our big green bokashi bins which we use for the kitchen and communal lunches. Here you will find a more detailed introduction to the process and use...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Many meanings of curious composting

    A possible bokashi exhibition

    In case of future plans with the Bokashi, this knowledge page is to provide information about a possible exhibition in the Bokashi space behind the restaurant. It would be a very interesting topic to...

  • 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...

  • How to make a reservation for Over Datum Eetclub

    This page explained how to make a reservation for Over Datum Eetclub, a project at Mediamatic BANK in 2011.

  • The Breedrs

    Breedrs is an interactive installation running a social game created for a conference environment. It consists of an artificial life environment, a digital ecosystem, in which creatures survive in...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Bokashi: Questions to Simon Vos

    Frequently asked questions

    Here are some questions that have been previously asked so that maybe you don't have to! Simone Vos from agriton has been great for answering questions and is the primary source for understanding the...

  • Pee for plants: how to

    An introduction to the use of urine as fertiliser

    If you have ever wondered whether and how you can use your own urine to grow luxuriant plants and healthy veggies, here you can find some useful pieces of information on methods and timing for...

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

  • Rupert Sheldrake

    And the morphic fields

    After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College, working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship. He investigated auxin

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Over Datum Eetclub 1

    Shells and Crusts with Tinda van Smoorenburg

    The first in our series of weekly dinner parties kicked off on Tuesday July 19th to a hungry crowd filling Mediamatic bank. It resulted in the successful resistance against the demonization of...

  • Edible Resistance

    Over Datum Eetclub spurs resistance from the personal to the political

    As a part of the Piece de Resistance exhibition, the resistance inherent in eating food bordering on the line of the government sanctioned definition between ‘food’ and ‘waste’ is both personal and...

  • The Bio Data Visualisation Workshop Experience

    And the amazing uses of slime-mold

    Mold, slime, intelligent design, art... could these concepts ever be linked together? The Bio Data Visualisation Workshop held by artists Sonja Bäumel and Maurizio Montalti proved that they should.
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Being responsible for Bokashi

    and other useful information

    The amount of time to give to Bokashi really depends on what is happening at Mediamatic. Is the restaurant open? Is communal lunch happening? What season is it?  Being responsible for the Bokashi...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Bokashi Containers

    Composting with microorganisms

    The organic waste coming from the kitchen of Mediamatic ETEN finds a special companion in its composting process: the Bokashi container.  This system uses effective microorganisms to enable low...

  • Urine and philosopher's stone

    How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

    For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...

  • Beer Recipes

    Exploring use of Hops, Yeast & Grain

    Naturally, one of the many objectives of this project is to brew some tasty beer, unique to Mediamatic. We are fortunate enough to be brewing twice a week at the moment so each time we are slightly...

  • Uienfeest documentary maker wins Prix Circom

    International prize for regional television programs

    The tv series about the onion surplus made by Ron Flens for RTV Noord-Holland won the Prix Circom. Last year Ron's brother Jo, a farmer from Texel, donated 250,000 onions to our Over Datum Eetclub...

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

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