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    Honingbank

    Part of an international art project that aims to create global awareness about the importance of bees.
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  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Over Datum Eetclub 1

    Shells and Crusts with Tinda van Smoorenburg

    The first in our series of weekly dinner parties kicked off on Tuesday July 19th to a hungry crowd filling Mediamatic bank. It resulted in the successful resistance against the demonization of...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #4 Denken, voelen en doen in de Garden-Based Approach

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

  • Waste Exploration

    A Zero-Waste Vision

    I joined Mediamatic as the compost/waste management intern to help figure the various uses for waste at Mediamatic more productively. Before I delve into the wonders of waste exploration, let's take...

  • If you can't beat it, eat it!

    What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

    Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Being responsible for Bokashi

    and other useful information

    The amount of time to give to Bokashi really depends on what is happening at Mediamatic. Is the restaurant open? Is communal lunch happening? What season is it?  Being responsible for the Bokashi...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Bokashi: Questions to Simon Vos

    Frequently asked questions

    Here are some questions that have been previously asked so that maybe you don't have to! Simone Vos from agriton has been great for answering questions and is the primary source for understanding the...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Bokashi: How to

    Bokashi introduction

    At the back of our kitchen you will see we have our big green bokashi bins which we use for the kitchen and communal lunches. Here you will find a more detailed introduction to the process and use...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol

    What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…

    Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 22 Mar 2021

    We are Growing Edible Flowers

    15 meters from farm to plate

    Mediamatic ETEN and the Aquaponics Farm together are aiding the growth of a project that started "rooting" its way into Mediamatic's collection a couple of years ago; and now with the arrival of this...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Duckweed taste testing 2.0

    Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish

    Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen as...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

  • Pee for plants: how to

    An introduction to the use of urine as fertiliser

    If you have ever wondered whether and how you can use your own urine to grow luxuriant plants and healthy veggies, here you can find some useful pieces of information on methods and timing for...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Building a geodesic dome

    My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic

    Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Bokashi Containers

    Composting with microorganisms

    The organic waste coming from the kitchen of Mediamatic ETEN finds a special companion in its composting process: the Bokashi container.  This system uses effective microorganisms to enable low...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Tasting before wasting

    Optimizing our African Catfish feed

    My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Many meanings of curious composting

    A possible bokashi exhibition

    In case of future plans with the Bokashi, this knowledge page is to provide information about a possible exhibition in the Bokashi space behind the restaurant. It would be a very interesting topic to...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...

  • Pigeon Fertilizing Tower

    Bringing pigeons' fertilization power back into the cycle of life by collecting their shit in a pigeon tower made from recycled paper.

  • Secretopic Research: Chewing Gum

    A visual archive

    Chewing gum has something mysterious about it. Although we all know it, we can say very little about it. Why don't we question it more?  How did it begin? What are we chewing? Why do we chew it...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Elderflower Champagne 2.0

    Popping champagne straight from the garden!

    The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L!  Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!

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