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  • 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.

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  • The Ultimate Miniponics Manual

    How to build it yourself

    The miniponics system is a cute little one, attracting a lot of attention from visitors. Read here how you can build it yourself.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Enormous vertical aquaponics farm in Chicago

    In an abandoned warehouse

    There has been some talk in the aquaponics community about the question whether aquaponics can be done commercially succesful. Here's an example, it's called FarmedHere

  • Bar Vakant

    A hotspot waterhole

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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 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.

  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Release of Channel Catfish

    Richmond Aquaponics farm receives inhabitants

    The Channel Catfish for the Richmond aquaponics farm have arrived! This video shows their release.

  • 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...

  • Trout timeout!

    The big one chases the small one

    Who knows why trout in captive chase each other? The big trout gives the small one just not a second of rest.

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

    On the morning of Friday's workshop, we found this floating around in Tower 2:

  • 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.

  • The babies

    Finally some better pictures

    It's quite hard to catch the little stick-in-the-muds on camera. Here are some better pictures.

  • Too big, too many

    The catfish are growing

    Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.

  • Tower 1

    From the museum

    Setup: Tower Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Aquaponics tent Built: 7 September 2012, Transnatural Festival

  • Blue LED's and bioballs

    Canadian commercial aquaponics farm described

    Broadcaster CBC published a story about a new commercial aquaponics farm. It's interesting to read, because they do some things differently.

  • Back in circulation

    A change of scenery in two weeks

    Whaaaaat! So much can change in two weeks, it's unbelievable! When Saro and I entered the tent today after Christmas family visits, surprise after surprise greeted us.

  • Aquaponics in deserted factory Manchester

    From the Guardian

    Excerpt: Orchards, crops and a fish farm will fill the empty spaces of a former printworks as the Biospheric Foundation comes to Salford. Christopher Arden reports

  • Structuring processes

    Backing up our assumptions

    Our oldest system has been running for one and a half years now and we've seen happening a lot to it in this time. Ebs and flows, births and deaths, seeds and fruits. To have this experience is nice

  • Big fish, big food

    We just learned something new! Lately our big fish (they're approaching 300 grams now) weren't eating very well, but we couldn't find a cause. Until we ordered new fish food for them.

  • End of exhibition Eindhoven

    De etende mens finished

    Last June, we brought one of our tower systems to the Designhuis in Eindhoven, to feature in the exhibition " De etende mens ". We also made a system merged with João's Diesel Kantine.

  • Greenhouse 1

    First T-system

    Setup: T-system Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Greenhouse Built: 11 January 2012

created Willem Velthoven modified Erik Diekstra

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