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Textile Lab Workshop X All: Mediamatic Biotoop
Sewing New Life
- Transform your old clothes into trendy new bags22jun 2024Do you love a piece of clothing but it doesn't quite fit anymore? Don't toss it! In this workshop, Kristin Maurer and Daniela Tiben will teach you how to transform your old favourites into a stylish
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Japanese Knotweed Season 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop
Gastronomical Summit
- Rethinking Japanese Knotweed Through Food31mei 2024Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for being considered a exotic invasive. This year's season explores the...
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Textile Lab Workshop X All: Mediamatic Biotoop
Re-fashioning Clothing
- with Kristin Maurer and Daniela Tiben25mei 2024Love a piece of clothing but it doesn't quite fit anymore? Don't toss it! In this workshop, you'll learn how to transform your old favourites: shorten pants, add a lining to a shirt, or even turn...
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Reading event Mediamatic Biotoop, Sluisdeurenloods, Mediamatic Biotoop
Mater Presents: Reading Material
- A reading event with artists Amanda Pinatih and Musoke Nalwoga during Mater exhibition30mrt 2024As part of the exhibition ' The Metamorphosis of Matter ', Mater has comissioned two new pieces of writing by Amanda Pinatih and Musoke Nalwoga. Join us at Mediamatic to hear these texts read...
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Janneke de Lange
Designer
Janneke de Lange is a designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work " FRUITURE NURSERY" will be displayed at Mediamatic during Japanese Knotweed Festival 2024.
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Blog Sophie Conroy
Welcome?
A blog series by Sophie Conroy #1
Welcoming is a radical act. Whether we are welcoming friends, family, or even ourselves, true welcome relies on genuine trust, acceptance, and vulnerability. When it comes to welcoming the unknown, a...
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Textile Lab: Mediamatic Biotoop
Visible Mending
- with Bronwen Jones25mei 2024Come and learn the art of darning, a time-tested technique for repairing holes in your favourite garments. Bronwen practices this technique visibly as a way to reclaim and celebrate our beloved...
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Programma april & mei
Japanse Duizendknoop Seizoen 2024
Mediamatic organiseert elke lente een festival rond de Japanse duizendknoop, een snelgroeiende plant die in Europa bekend staat om zijn opdringerige eigenschappen. Wat velen echter niet weten is dat...
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker: Vera Lelie
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Vera Lelie is open...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker: Yvonne Dröge Wendel
Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Yvonne Dröge Wendel...
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a / Artist
Clemens Tomlow
Designer, Lap Lab supervisor
Clemens Tomlow is an alumni from Design Academy Eindhoven. Interested in the world of textiles and storytelling, he mainly works as an artist / costume designer but sees himself as an...
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Across the Multiverse
Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future
Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity?
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Terugblik Japanse Duizendknoop Symposium
lief je gast – opening van het Japanse Duizendknoop Festival
We blikken terug op een tweedaagse bijeenkomst met onderzoekers, ontwerpers en kunstenaars, waarin de Japanse duizendknoop en onze omgang met deze plant is onderzocht. De duizendknoop is in een nieuw
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando22apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando30apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando29apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando15apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando23apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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373 words to insult a plant
In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad
Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
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Understanding Japanese knotweed
In conversation with Virgile Durando
Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Handenarbeid
- Workshop met Virgile Durando14apr 2023Tijdens deze workshop leer je hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Je gaat aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Ontdek hoe je met deze...
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Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23
Oogst de plant voorzichtig!
Zo voorkom je onbedoelde verspreiding
Ontdek hoe je de Japanse duizendknoop kunt gebruiken, of bestrijden. Leer hier hoe je deze eetbare en medicinale plant, die boordevol kwaliteiten en voordelen zit kunt oogsten zonder dat ie wortel...