Mediamatic
  •  
  • Mediamatic
    • About
    • Contact
    • Route
    • What we have done
    • Best of Mediamatic
    • Accessibility
    • Mediamatic huisregels
    • FAQ
  • Program
    • Projects
    • Event Calendar
    • Workshop Calendar
    • To See
  • People
    • This is our team
    • This is who we worked with
    • Ex-colleagues
    • Jobs
  • Venue
    • About
    • Spaces
    • Possibilities
    • Funeral
    • Wedding
    • Coworking
    • Lab
    • Workshops
  • Shop
    • Bon.
  • Restaurant
Search Menu
Log in
en
  •  Myco Design Lab
  • Myco Forum
  • Knowledge

  • Report: a visit to CNC

    One of the largest mushroom substrate producers in the world

    What brings horse manure, an R&D director, a designer and a construction graduate together? That’s right, mushroom growing! A tour of the facilities of CNC, the largest (indoor) mushroom substrate...
  • industrie
  • mycelium
  • Biology

  • Building with Living Materials

    Architectural design with biology programme at Mediamatic

    In 2014 Mediamatic started to develop a new program that combines architecture with living materials in experimental ways. Living materials cannot only be more ecological, they offer very exiting new...

  • The Future of Plastic

    An exhibition by Maurizio Montalti

    Maurizio Montalti, partner of our Myco Design Lab, just opened his solo exhibition called "The Future of Plastic" in Naples. The exhibition will present some of the latest research and grown products

  • 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...

  • "Water is a cycle like everything in nature and…

    On June 12th young water maverick and bioprocess engineer Bernelle Verster gave an inspiring talk at Mediamatics Biotalk ; a monthly lecture series that invites artists and designers to present and...

  • Fungi Mutarium

    A prototype for turning plastic into edible fungi

    The mycelium of some fungi is capable of growing on and even digesting plastics. This fact triggered Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger from Livin Studio to start the research and design project...

  • Eric Klarenbeeks' organic 3d-printing

    What about a Myceliumchair?

    As a designer, Eric Klarenbeeks' interest lies in combining different materials in unforeseen ways. He does the unusual, for unusual people, projects or purposes. Moreover, Klarenbeek is interested...

  • Nothing tastes better than fungus

    A Sausage experiment with Brandt&Levie

    Did you know that the taste of a sausage is determined by its surroundings? Together with Brandt&Levie we have started a new, four-week-long experiment of sausage fermentation. 7 Organizations are...

  • 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...

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • 6 ways Mushrooms can save the World

    Paul Stamets amazing speech at the TED conference

    Growing mushroom might be the best thing we can do to save the environment. In this inspiring speech, Paul Stamets briefly explain his work and research on mushroom, or better mycelium and his...

  • Rhythm of Life

    From the water of life

    Through the combined narratives of traditional Chinese medicine and modern technology, Thought Collider's Aqua Vita-project visualises personal metabolic development and health with the help of their...

  • Fresh improvements to panel growing

    After reviewing our previous panel experiments' highs and lows, we've started 4 new panels with some (hopefully) positive changes to our procedure.

  • The mycelium inspiration

    On the website Everyone Forever has published the work of Ryan Alexander a graphic designer working, at least in this series, with the programming open source Processing

  • Biomodd

    Symbiosis between biological and electronic systems

    Nature and technology are not juxtaposed but rather fused into imaginative hybrid installations.

  • The synthetic kingdom (en)

  • Caroline de Roy

    Transparency and Mycelium

    Artist Caroline de Roy explores the possibilities of mycelium with the aspects transparency and network-structures. At Mediamatic Fabriek she shows the results so far.

  • Mycelium Spawn

    Artificial Mushroom Seeds

    A short guide to making and using spawn at Mediamatic

  • Laboratory

    Microscopic and macroscopic organisms

    (Art)ScienceBLR's work is at intersection of art-science and pedagogy, creating spaces of dialogue and interaction between artists, designers and scientists.

  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...

  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • The Esthetic of Microscopical Science

    Are Moulds, Mushrooms and Parasites really so disgusting and unaesthetic as some people think? Let's give it a closer look...

    We already saw on this blog some interesting examples of artists and designers getting particularly inspired by these microscopical fascinating organisms. Why is that, then? Is this microcosm really...

  • Photoelectric bites

    Temporary photoElectric Digestopians Worklab Series

    Edible Solarcells

  • Urban Eden, human error

    Bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds

    Allison Kudla's project based on the formation of a living and growing biological material via its collaboration with an engineering mechanism.

  • Henriette Waal, beer woman in a man's world.

    Interview with the beer curator for Bio-me

    Henriette Waal (1982), who graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy, ‘Man and Public Space’ department, is an artist and designer - but also a beer brewer. She’s beer curator for Mediamatic’s Bio

created Rosa Kieft modified Rosa Kieft

  •  Contact
  • Colofon
Design by Mediamatic - Powered by Ginger