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  • Lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Living Tower Talk #4

    10
    nov 2023

    Janna Bystrykh is an architect and researcher seeking to regenerate design practices in response to our biodiversity and climate crises. Taking the Mycelium Pigeon Towers as conversation starters, we...
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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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 Mily Boogaarts

    Death is in the air, and you can smell it

    The demise of the pigeon towers

    While mushrooms emerge, grow, mature and decay, the towers shrink and bend under their own weight. And we keep building. Trying to reach and hold the height of the tower. We feel the need to repair...
  • 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...
  • 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 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 Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    okt '20 – Duiventoren 04

    De blokken mycelium van paddenstoelenkweker John Verbruggen, die we gebruiken voor de bouw, zijn breed en zwaar en geven ons meer zekerheid bij het stapelen dan bij de vorige torens. Om een ronde...
  • 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...
  • 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...

  • Pigeon Parents

    Georgia and Arne talk about their four pigeon children.

    After two weeks of house arrest to allow their homing instincts to mature and feel at home in the mycelium pigeon tower we opened the door. Our pigeon children are now free to go where they want. It'...
  • 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...
  • 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, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Friday Tour

    30
    mei 2025

    Neem een kijkje in onze zintuigelijke labs, leer meer over de huidige bio art projecten, en bewonder de groeiende installaties rond de Biotoop tijdens onze tour op vrijdag!  Ticket + drankje
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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    Looking back at "Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots"…

    with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol

    Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots workshop was a culmination of the research and collaboration between interns from Mediamatic Clean Lab and Aquaponics Greenhouse. We're not hosting this workshop anymore
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Tour

    Wat is Mediamatic?

    Neem een kijkje in onze zintuigelijke labs, leer meer over de huidige bio art projecten, en bewonder de groeiende installaties rond de Biotoop tijdens onze tour!   
  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Dusking

    16
    mei 2025
    - Marjolijn van Heemstra

    You don't have to wait for nightfall to experience the darkness. Just after sunset, the great transition begins: twilight. The golden hour turns into the blue hour, the light fades, and colours...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Mily Boogaarts 3 mrt 2021

    From Packaging to Beaver Skin

    How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1

    The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...

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