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  • 26 Bathrooms and 6 Apartments

    Cinematography notes on the Toilet

    ''It was an affectionate, ironical, critical look at bathroom design - it is not only what people put in their bathrooms, but also what people do in their bathrooms, which is the secret room of the...

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  • Architecture of Crisis

    Mr.Takeshita and Dr. Oike on water purification technologies and biomimicry

    Can we change the paradigm in which the toilet is ‘wet’ and the cleaning is ‘dry’? In many areas on Earth people cannot reach drinkable water. At the same time the Western World is still using the...

  • The Big Blue

    Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

    Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...

  • 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...

  • The Buddha of the Bathroom, the Baroness and…

    The Dada Queen on liquid creativity

    Tempest Suck / Lip / Quaff / Breath / Squallashed / Skin's / Taste / Let / Me.

  • Julia's washable protective underwear

    Don't let incontinence stop you

    Adults' incontinence is a common problem which challenges one's emotional and physical well-being, and disposable diapers aren't a comfortable solution. In order to enable incontinent people to...

  • 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...

  • Potty Parity: what does it mean?

    And why are there always queues in front of women's restrooms?

    The lack of equal access to toilets is considered by some a subtle form of discrimination against women. It may be culturally embedded rather than consciously pursued, yet it is still there. Here is...

  • Daniel Bouw 20 Jan 2010

    Appels en peren

    uiteindelijk past alles bij elkaar, als het maar inspirerend is

    Een programma samenstellen voor Kom je ook? is een zoektocht in verschillende netwerken en langs vele wegen. De mogelijkheden blijken eindeloos, maar een focus op innovatieve en participatieve...

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • Persbericht 8 december 2009

    Eerste ‘user generated’ biënnale nu compleet

    36 stedenpaviljoens in Amsterdam Biënnale 2009

    Amsterdam 8 december 2009 – Zaterdag 12 december gaan de laatste paviljoens open en is de Amsterdam Biënnale 2009 compleet. 200 kunstenaars uit de hele wereld werkten met Mediamatic aan de eerste...

  • Een werelwijd tekort aan helium?

    Er zit een dreigend tekort aan helium aan te komen. Experts waarschuwen ons voor de gevolgen.

  • 1 Jun 2011

    Handleiding kleuters in het museum

    Tips en trucs voor ouders/begeleiders

    Deze handleiding is voor begeleiders die met kleuters naar het museum willen. Het bevat tips en trucs om een geslaagd bezoek aan een willekeurig museum te brengen. veel plezier!

  • Project: Quinten Wolters

    Hup Holland Hoofddoek

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter.

  • Rembrandt

    and the pissing farmer's wife

    Many an artist throughout time has touched upon the subject of piss within their works. One of the most notable of these is perhaps Rembrandt van Rijn.

  • Painting in pee

    Warhol's Oxidations

    Made up of soft coppery yellows, oranges, blacks and greens, the pools and drips of Andy Warhol's oxidized works represent quite a different take on the artist, than his (in)famous pop-art. The...

  • Hi, I'm a new intern at Mediamatic!

    I just joined the team that is going to work in the new location.

  • Prope(e)r

    Portable urinals for women.

    Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...

  • Eervolle vermelding EL HEMA ontwerpwedstrijd 2007 Sara Emami

    Jouw wereld mijn wereld

    Zie de overeenkomsten

    Er zitten veel overeenkomsten tussen de verschillende culturen, probeer ze ook te zien met behulp van dit spel!

  • Pissing on Patriarchy

    Urine as a Feminist Symbol in Contemporary Art

    You may be familiar with Andy Warhol’s oxidation paintings , or Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ , two of the most well-known uses of urine in contemporary art. But when it comes to female artists...

  • Mediamatic Screen

    2003/2004

    In November 2003 Mediamatic started a new series of projections on Mediamatic Supermarkt.

  • Brigette Bloom

    Pee, soak, dry and use

    A project that started as an accident and ended up being a new way of making pictures personal.

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • MelodiOz

created Emma Panini modified Emma Panini

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