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  • 100 Years of Learning

    Mycelium Towers as Guides for Collective Learning and R-Evolution

    A Century-long Masterclass During the Summer of 2020, Mediamatic joined forces with artist Arne Hendriks to explore the possibilities of using mycelium waste as a building material for constructing...
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  • The Harmony of Disorder: Functionality in Messy…

    Living Tower Talk #2

    On the second episode of the Living Tower Talk , Mediamatic welcomed Amsterdam-based infrastructure activist Debra Solomon to talk about co-existing with non-human entities and what a multispecies...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Georgia Dalloro

    The Squabs are Here!

    Welcoming our feathered friends to Mediamatic

    After weeks of preparation the squabs (young pigeons) are finally here! Arne put the last changes in the pigeon tower loft last week, changing the roof from a flat one to one that can be opened (cut...

  • Living Tower Talks

    So much to learn. So much time.

    During the monthly Living Tower Talks, co-curated by  Arne Hendriks  and  Clemens Driessen , we come together to learn, discuss and rethink how we live. Mycelium-waste-pigeon-towers are taken as...

  • Nurturing Timeless Knowledge

    Living Tower Talk #3

    In the third episode of the Living Tower Talk series, titled "Nurturing Timeless Knowledge," attendees were treated to a fascinating exploration of ecocentrism, the beauty of circular movements...
  • Pigeon Tower Arne Hendriks, Hannah Leitzke

    Stonk

    March '22 - Duiventoren 12

    Stonk wordt gebouwd met het afvalmateriaal van het afvalmateriaal. De mycelium blokken, ons bouwmateriaal, liggen naast de schuur. Een cyclus van blokken halen, blokken persen tijdens de Gentle disco
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Cam

    On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    30 minute 1 on 1 meetings with artists

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! We organize regular creative consultations with various artists who are currently researching, building or...

  • Apparatuur

    In het Clean Lab hebben we meerdere bijzondere apparaten die gebruikt worden binnen verschillende niches. We hebben een Braumeister en Grainfather om bier te brouwen. Een grote snelkookpan voor...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker: Arne Hendriks

    Are you in need of some artistic input or discussion partner on your project? We organize creative consultations with various artists who are currently researching, building or exhibition their work...
  • Proposal by: Leo Kay

    The Acid House Of Ideas

    Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

    A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie

    Ins & Outs / Do's & Dont's

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #1

    In this blog series we will share the findings we have discovered after every workshop. There will be many questions found here regarding the process of building the tower both from us and those who...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Aya Koné

    Meeting Mycelium

    First Encounters at Dutch Design Week

    The material is strange, thick, sometimes oozing, with an odor that rises up just after you break open the plastic.
  • Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks

    Babel

    jun '20 – Duiventoren 01

    De eerste toren van myceliaal afval. Levend materiaal. We wilden vooral beginnen. Met veel enthousiasme maar weinig precisie of overleg. De ongelijke blokken werden intuïtief gestapeld. We vulden de...

  • Structure

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #4

    Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works? 
  • Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Yellow

    feb '21 – Duiventoren 06

    De bouw van deze toren is vooral gericht op snelheid en efficiëntie. Het is een eenvoudig vierkant ontwerp, zodat we de blokken niet hoefden bij te snijden. Om ze aan te drukken organiseerden we een...
  • Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    sept '20 –Duiventoren 03

    De derde toren werd gebouwd in het Clean Lab . Twee eerdere pogingen om een stevige, levende toren te bouwen waren mislukt. Tijd om een stapje terug te doen. We wisten niet of onze uitgangspunten...
  • Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

    Jute

    jun '20 – Duiventoren 02

    De overblijfselen van de ingestorte toren van het eerste experiment hebben we in een lange jute buis gestopt. Jute is biologisch afbreekbaar textiel, en biedt structuur en voeding aan het mycelium.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

    Commence Operation

    We are building a Pigeon Tower #2

    During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Chim

    aug '21 – Duiventoren 11

    Chim is de eerste toren waarin houten duivenkastjes geplaatst zijn. Omdat de mycelium blokken krimpen nadat ze zijn neergelegd, zijn de kastjes in een doorlopende ring om de toren geïnstalleerd. De...
  • Proposal by: Lucia Babina

    Nodes

    Project Proposal: An international mutual aid hospitality network and practice for mid-career artists: menopausal women, queer and more-than-strange humans

    The NODES PROJECT is an artistic output focused network of inhabited homes/live-work spaces providing hosting for artists who, due to the precarious conditions we experience in our careers, require...

  • The Ins and Outs of Stimming

    Sensing Self through Movement roundtable

    Before the public event Sensing Self through Movement , we invited our three speakers for a roundtable dinner with the A/Artist team and artists from our network. We talked about a number of topics...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    ijKruid

    Vanaf Dijkspark brengen we de planten in de stad in kaart

    Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Kom meer te weten over de...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

    Building-Blocks

    Different ways to build an octagon

    What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.  

  • Nature Morte

    Dood, Design and Duurzaamheid

    Onder curatorschap van progressieve begrafenisondernemer Susanne Duijvestein gaan we op zoek naar nieuwe invalshoeken en ontwerpen voor onze eigen onvermijdelijke vergankelijkheid. Lezingen en...

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