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  • 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

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  • 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...

  • f@ff

    food @ freezing favela

    In the Freezing Favela f@ff 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Human Chain

    An human chain closing the entrance of a gate

  • 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...

  • Garri

    Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'

    “Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

    "How did you make it?" Curiosity from Mouldy Food…

    Today 4 colleagues helped us tested the eating experience with our idea from last blog: what if people rip off the mycelium to eat the food inside? What if the food is already grown with mycelium and...

  • Urine-tricity

    Your pee can power a lightbulb!

    A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

  • Pissing and the public

    Most animals have excretory systems for elimination of soluble wastes. Humans are no different. While we may regard ourselves as much more evolved, in many ways we still resemble all the other...

  • 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 ).

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou

    A Taste from the Ocean: Poppy Seed Mycelium

    It smells like...fish!

  • 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

    Buckwheat Tempeh Tastes like Black Bread!

    In order to find out a nice taste of tempeh ware,  we have been growing  fungus rhizopus oryzae on different ingredients. This time we tried bulgur, buckwheat, corns and pop corns.

  • 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...

  • 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...

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