Culture

Proposal by: Lena Trost

(Digital) Glass Tasting

Project proposal: How glass becomes odour

My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...

Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer

When My Time Comes

Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game

How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...

Proposal by: Margherita Falqui

Liquid Maquis

Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses

Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...

Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

Chili Pepper Pleasure

Project proposal: A hedonistic experience

Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...

Proposal by: Nina Anin

Wind Airwave transmission

Project Proposal: Sustainable radio show

WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...

Proposal by: Mario Mimoso

Floating Havens

Project Proposal: Regenerating city life

Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...

Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez

Oak Tales

Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes

Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...

Proposal by: Bas Huijbers

Green Office

Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office

Proposal by: Racha Tarazi

My Dinner

Project Proposal: Digesting emotions

My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...

Proposal by: Anoniem

Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…

Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen

Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...

Proposal by: Lucie Majerus

Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs

As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?

Proposal by: Krisztina Czika

What's left to capture?

Project Proposal: Underwater journey

'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...

Proposal by: Maaike Anne Stevens

Bipolaris

Project proposal: Essay film

Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...

Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot

Piss Soap

Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research

My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...

Proposal by: Mariko Hori

Archive something we don't know yet

Project Proposal: Understanding water conditions through paper making

This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.

Proposal by: Thom van Hoek

Object Permanence

Project proposal: Levend sculptuur

Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...

Proposal by: Sieta van Horck

Bodies of Land

Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land

Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...

Proposal by: Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca

Inclusive Patching.

Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability

It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...

Sieta van Horck

Groente? Bitter! Als kind at ik liever…

Een gesprek met onze voormalig head chef Gino Marengo

Met een jagende opa die het wild direct uit het bos plukte, kwam Gino al van jongs af aan in contact met dieren, verse ingrediënten en rijke gerechten. Hij at alles van hert en leguaaneieren tot...

Getting intimate through stitches

Meet Desirée Hammen

Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.

Stitches, Threads and Needles

Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...

February '22 - May '22

Andrea Valdivia

Photography Assistant

My name is Andrea, and I am a 21-year-old Peruvian who joined Mediamatic as a photography intern (Feb - May 2022). I was born in Lima, Peru, but moved abroad three years ago for my studies...