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Experimenting Smell on Mycelium
Which smell source will neutralise the smell of the substrate bostel?
Mycelium can grow on beer brewery wastes now. However, it has a unpleasant farm smell. We want to make the fungi material smells good so that it can make people feel good while using it. What kind of...
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DNA Portraits
DNA by Marc Quinn
When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Sieta van Horck
The Secret Life of Plants Blog #1
Experiment Overview
Natural surroundings have a big impact on the energy and well-being of organisms. They respond to physical movements within their environment. For instance, known structured patterns like sunlight...
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Intimate Currency
Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim
With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
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The Chair That Bleeds
The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim
We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...
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Save Your Pearly White Teeth
Human Ivory by Lucie Majerus
Ivory as a material from animal tusks might still be a luxury material. But it’s controversial aspect makes it distasteful and old fashion. Instead of valorising ivory tusks as a prized possession
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Could In-Vitro Leather be the new Pleather?
Pure Human by Tina Gorjanc
Tina Gorjanc proposes a whole fashion collection using biotechnical engineering. Similar to in-vitro meat, she would produce leather for her collection from a DNA hair sample from Alexander McQueen...
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Modern Day Vampires
Consumption of blood whether it is human blood or animal blood in our modern culture has been associated to vampirism. In the past decade, our pop culture was fascinated by the fantastical stories of...
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In the End, We Only Have Ourselves
Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina
Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...
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Kuang-Yi Ku
Kuang-Yi Ku was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He is currently based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and studying in Design Academy Eindhoven. His work often deals with human body, sexuality, human
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Fungi!
- Basic mushroom and biomaterials introduction12mei 2018It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics10jun 2018Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Fungi!
- Basic mushroom and biomaterials introduction3mrt 2018It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Fungi!
- Basic mushroom and biomaterials introduction3feb 2018It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics11feb 2018Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Kool Kabbage
It turned out to be a good cabbage-year. In fact, this year’s cabbage harvest turned out so good, there is more cabbage than farmer Krispijn van den Dries can process for a fair price. What to do...
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Wilhelm Wagenschieber
Engraver for science illustrations
He was active in Berlin from 1862 to 1879. His last assignment was for Ernst Haeckel. He was engraving plates for "Die Kalkschwämme". Works for Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Radiolarien (1862...
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Eduard Giltsch I
Lithographer 1811 — 1884
Father of lithographer Adolf Giltsch . Former servant (Hausmann) at the Jena Botanical Gardens. Later, he founded the print shop in Jena: Giltsch Lithographische Anstalt Jena ("Lithographie
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics7jan 2018Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Biotalk: The Design Away Perspective
- With Conny Groenewegen, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Maurizio Montalti2nov 2017In a world polluted by more plastic than the eye can see, the time has come to find another way of dealing with our environment. During this biotalk, artist Maarten Vanden Eynde, fashion designer...
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Tuinkamer
Karakteristieke kamer met uitzicht over het water en restaurant
De Tuinkamer is te huur voor vergaderingen (30 personen), presentaties (40) en recepties (45 personen). Deze ruimte heeft een karakteristieke aankleding met uitzicht over het water en grenst aan...
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Mediamatic Shop
Mediamatic's Biotoop is a breeding ground for art, design and life sciences. Together with multidisciplinary creative people we create exhibitions, events and workshops. Sometimes tangible...