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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Botanikurs: Repotting 101
- with PLANTMOM Monai McCullough (2nd edition)22dec 2018Botanikurs is a series of workshops and classes focused on plants. We invite you to learn and explore the life of plants and its systems as well as master taking care of your plants at home! This...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Botanikurs: Repotting 101
- with PLANTMOM Monai McCullough15dec 2018Botanikurs* is a series of workshops and classes focused on plants. We invite you to learn and explore the life of plants and its systems as well as master taking care of your plants at home! This...
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Mechanical Shit
Wim Delvoye's Cloaca
Massive structures made out of steel glass and rubber mechanically digesting cafeteria leftovers acting as automated guts.
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The Urine Brick
Building the future
What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics3feb 2019Aquaponics 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: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics2dec 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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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
"How did you make it?" Curiosity from…
Today 4 colleagues helped us tested the eating experience with our idea from last blog: what if people rip off the mycelium to eat the food inside? What if the food is already grown with mycelium and...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Experience the Moulds: Somewhere between Food and…
As lab interns, we already get used to eating our lab-grown moulds. Now let's step away from our perspective: how many of you are afraid of eating fungus, even knowing that a large part of our...
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Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė
Chef Tommaso Buresti has something to say about…
As nice as it is to play with a raw tempeh, eating it unprepared is not the best idea. Jiwei and I sneaked into the kitchen to cook our samples (about which you can read in the previous post ).
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Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė
Are you prepared for the Halloween?
This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
A Taste from the Ocean: Poppy Seed Mycelium
It smells like...fish!
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Dinner First Trial!
Buckwheat and bulgur tempeh sheets' first trial for closed food
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
Buckwheat Tempeh Tastes like Black Bread!
In order to find out a nice taste of tempeh ware, we have been growing fungus rhizopus oryzae on different ingredients. This time we tried bulgur, buckwheat, corns and pop corns.
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Mediamatic Eten, Mediamatic Clean Lab Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou
It smells like fresh bread!
As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh + Pizza = Tempehzza?
Tempeh as the dough and top of a pizza
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh is made into sheet materials!
Cooking tempeh as a sheet material
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Ware is potential in street food wrap!
Inspired by a lot of starch-based street food, Mediamatic is developing tempeh-based eating tool. Eat tempeh as food and as an eating tool at the same time!
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Jiwei Zhou
Tempeh Ware with Flavour
Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting
A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Aquaponics
- Learn to build Aquaponics16sep 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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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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How to tackle the whitefly?
Whiteflies are an issue that many people who have a garden outside or in a greenhouse struggle with. Luckily there are many organic solutions for this problem. This article will discuss three types...
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Jiwei Zhou
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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...