Best of 2013

We are building a favela inside Mediamatic Fabriek. But what will our city look like? How can we generate heat, how do we feed people, and how will we clean up our shit? A group of designers and...

Esther Polak, Ivar van Bekkum and Bert Kommerij use sand to create temporary interactive artworks by mapping locations with sand circles.

Performance artist Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick likes to get physical with his art. Using all the proper climbing gear he hoisted himself up in the Mediamatic Fabriek and began building his human-sized...

With the help of just two mics and two speakers, Mediamatic Fabriek's industrial hall turned the tiniest of sounds into a colossal, disorienting flying carpet of noise. An hour-long, physical sound...

We're talking cats, birds and Mickey this month. Join us for the mystery of the grilled cheese sandwich and the beauty of bullfighting. There will be a trash beer tasting, and dinner comes courtesy...

Freezing Favela was a temporary city at Mediamatic, Oostenburg Amsterdam. A group of designers, cooks and other makers are sharing our huge, leaking, unheated space in the Van Gendthallen. In the...

Three teams have joined forces under the name favelous. Together they'll build an open platform kitchen, for cooking, learning, eating and drinking. Bamboo architect Christoph Tönges offered his...

The Paper Universe boys are creating their cardboard universe realm in the Freezing Favela. This therapeutic process involved tearing hundreds of pieces of from cardboard boxes, slitting and joining...

De Tostifabriek unravels the mystery of the grilled cheese sandwich by showing you every step of the production process at once. It is a living art installation including a wheat field, three cows...

Iedere zondag was er een boel te doen in de Freezing Favela. Je kon een Yoga les volgen in de Favela Yoga . Je kon je eigen kartonnen meubels maken bij Paper Universe . Of in de Favelous kantine...

Does your busy citylife inspire a need to come to yourself for a moment? In the middle of the favela there's room for movement, breath and relaxation. Get in the flow of mindful body use and free...

Andrea Sossi, the Italian chef of Favelous, showed how it's supposed to be done. On the menu was: Vitello Tonnato, Lingione al Pesto (an authentic Genua recipe with potatoes and green beens...

Troost biedt soelaas op de maandag. Met een stevige daghap en korte voordrachten vooraf en als toetje, voor maar €5,- (ex lidmaatschap ). Elke maand draait de programmering om een ander tijdschrift

What is the Gezi spirit and how does it translate outside of Turkey? This Tuesday journalist Froukje Santing will conduct public interviews with a panel of individuals who are especially overcome...

The protests in Turkey are characterised by a culture of cooperation, creative self-organisation and democratic resistance. Saturday 16 November we celebrated the opening of 'A Day in the Park' with...

The size of a whale, vagina art, a possible third Industrial Revolution, and inspiration for a Vegan Christmas dinner. This and more came by at the last Ignite Amsterdam of the year. Dinner was made...

We are closing PARK with a big one-day international arts festival. See 9 different concerts, learn how to dance Taksim-style, cook together, collect food and clothes for refugees and much more.