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Policy Plan 2025-2028:
Open City Monastery
Transdisciplinary Design Research
Mediamatic is an organization focused on developing and presenting cross-disciplinary art, design and science practices. Sustainability and social urgency are our core concerns. Since 1983, we have...
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Aromathèque
Sensory art, Research and Design
Aromathèque is here to tickle your senses, flip your nose upside down, and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. From mayonnaise madness to alluring pheromones, every...
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Message from the Supervisory Board
A new era for Mediamatic
Dear visitors, artists, friends, colleagues, stakeholders, critical observers, fans, sponsors, supporters and all others involved.
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WDCD Amsterdam Live 2024 X Mediamatic Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Crafting Tomorrow
- Weaving Tradition Through Innovation5Jul 2024In today's rapidly changing world, technological progress often overshadows traditional knowledge, and global interconnectedness prevails. Historically, artisans relied on local resources, but...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker
- with Bronwen Jones20Jul 2024Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Bronwen Jones is open...
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Japanese Knotweed Season 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Gastronomical Summit
- Rethinking Japanese Knotweed Through Food31أيار / مايو 2024Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for being considered a exotic invasive. This year's season explores the...
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13. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Erica Monde, Mila Benjamins
There’s Not Much We Can Do
12Apr 2024- Film by Erica Monde5أيار / مايو 2024When filmmaker Erica Monde was diagnosed with endometriosis, the growth of tissue similar to th e uterine lining outside the uterus , she was told by doctors that there was not much they could...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '24
Japanese Knotweed Program
upcoming events
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season. Reserve your tickets here ! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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Program April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Living Tower Talk #5 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
De Stad als Dierentuin (The City as a Zoo)
- with Thijs de Zeeuw & Atze van der Goot23Feb 2024How can humans, animals and plants live together in the city and what role do art and design play in this? This time we will talk with Thijs de Zeeuw, known for designing the new lion enclosure in...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Intimacies in the Waiting Room
- A/artist Meeting with Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Vera Lelie and students from KABK's 'Iets Tekenen'18Dec 2023Waiting rooms are often a place of discomfort, annoyance and embarrassment. Yvonne Dröge Wendel’s cuddly objects turn your stay into a voyage of discovery. Meanwhile, Vera Lelie is surprised by the...
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book: Annelies Wina Doom, Willem Velthoven, Jam van der Aa, Marcel Sturing
Zelftest
Cahier voor Museumnacht 2023
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lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #4
10Nov 2023Janna 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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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ignacy Radtke
Smile Like You Really Mean It
15Dec 2023- Installation by Ignacy Radtke14Apr 2024In this work, Ignacy Radtke explores the concept of emotional labour, the effort required to maintain social relationships. For some, this kind of 'work' is easier to perform than for others. This...
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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...
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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...
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lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #3
- Nurturing Timeless Knowledge29Sep 2023Breaking Boundaries and Forming New Connections: Embracing Ecocentrism. Join us on a journey of chicken audiences, fungi, and a different point of view! Tickets
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lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #2
- So much to learn. So much time.23Jun 2023What can we learn from a mycelium pigeon tower? How can the interaction with other species reshape our perspectives? In the spring of 2020 Arne Hendriks started building pigeon towers with living...
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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...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker
- With Nora Nord1Aug 2024Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Nora Nord is open...
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lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Living Tower Talk #1
- So much to learn. So much time.19أيار / مايو 2023What can we learn from a mycelium pigeon tower? How can the interaction with other species reshape our perspectives? In the spring of 2020 Arne Hendriks started building pigeon towers with living...