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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mediamatic Foundation
Uitmarkt 2017
26Aug 201727Aug 2017Een weekend vol met (bio)culturele activiteiten en projecten zoals 'Interwoven' van Diana Scherer, een spectaculaire modeshow 'Artsy Onesie Tango Rave' en presentaties van Wouter Hassing en Corinne...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen
Fashion Machine Factoids
Why we have to Cut the Crap
A million microplastics per washing, 6000 sweaters, and 570 square meters of knitting. The fashion industry is a beautiful but polluting business. Designer Conny Groenewegen sets out to visualize...
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Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out
Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina
What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob, Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: How to wASH?
14Aug 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob, Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: How to wASH?
8Sep 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mediamatic Foundation
Midsummer Night
23Jun 2017The shortest night in the year is a special one. For many centuries it has been celebrated by cultures all over the world, by lighting bonfires, gathering of magical herbs, dancing, singing and more.
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Sydney Schaefer
A multi-disciplinary designer whose focus lies in research based product design
Sydney's design practice exemplifies research based design as she enjoys engaging with those outside of classic creative fields to truly understand the needs and goals of a subject.
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Getting Drunk From Saliva
Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer
Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob
wASH Laundrette
9Sep 201719Dec 2017Caroline Jacob tackles common preconceptions of food, waste and hygiene in her latest work wASH. Using waste materials left over from Mediamatic’s food production, she creates a site-specific laundry...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob, Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: How to wASH?
9Jul 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Maaike Hommes
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark What Design Can Do, Mediamatic Foundation
What Design Can Do
23أيار / مايو 201724أيار / مايو 2017On May 23-24 What Design Can comes together at Mediamatic in a catering accommodation, to discuss in what way design can act as a catalyst of change.
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen, Mediamatic Foundation
Cut the Crap met Conny
1Jun 201731Aug 2017Together with designer Conny Groenewegen and the FAMA (Fashion Machine) team here at Mediamatic, you can help us knit giant fleece banners that will slowly engulf our headquarters! Collaborate with...
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen
Fashion Machine
1Jun 20174Oct 2017The fashion industry: a beautiful but polluting business. The fast pace of clothing production accounts for devastating amounts of material and immaterial consumption, resulting in the misuse of...
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Tempeh Ware at Mediamatic
Save the World by Eating your Plate
Tempeh ware is a new edible table ware developed at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. Here we'll keep you updated about our programme of presentations and workshops. Also we'll publish detailed descriptions...
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About Tempeh Ware
Save the world by eating your plate
Most people know tempeh as an Indonesian side dish, appearing in small, rectangular chunks on a plate. But the time to be square is over, and new shapes enunciate the future of food in sustainable...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Klara Ravat
20Apr 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Zuursalon: Tempeh
26Apr 2017Tempeh, we know it as Indonesian fermented food: soybeans bound together by mycelium. At Mediamatic, we are working on cultural, artistic and culinary applications of mycelium. The potential of...
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The menstrual cup- conveniently liberating
I once met someone travelling who told me she had to fill half of her backpack with period supplies because she was travelling through a Muslim country. Incoming, the menstrual cup: breaking social
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Biotalk: Algorithms from Nature
17أيار / مايو 2017Are the algorithms of living matter also useful for digital arts? Could they for instance be used in live visual performances? And how? Mediamatic and the Live Performers Meeting invite you for this...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Micro-Brewing
18Feb 2017Even though it only takes water, hops, yeast and grains to develop a beer, the variations and additions are endless. During this workshop with brewer and medical microbiologist Jasper Swierstra...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Aquatic harvesting
13Apr 2017Will algae farms be the farms of the future? Can washed-up jellyfish be repurposed to make a durable material? Are algae the solution for clean energy harvesting? Through performance and talks, we...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Biomimicry
10Feb 2017Practice how you can be nature’s apprentice by resolving a design challenge with the help of nature. Many plants, bacteria, animals and fungi have equipped themselves with spectacular features. The...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Regeneration
17Mar 2017Can we regenerate our man-damaged eco-systems and if so, how? For this Regeneration Biotalk we've invited artist Ivan Henriques, professor Biogeochemistry Caroline Slomp and engineer/architect Eric...