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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'...
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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...
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Collaboration Mediamatic & UvA Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Imagining of 'Just & Green' futures
- Making Utopias Real with Laura Burgers, Ivana Isailović, Usha Natarajan, Pippi van Ommen, Anouk Beckers, Margarita Nieves & Kyra Sacks20Jul 2022A limit on your energy consumption? A ban on cars? Or hamburgers for 100 euros? We like to promise each other a "just and green transition" of the economy, addressing global warming in a "fair
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
La Cocina Presents: Staging a Banquet
- Lecture by Tina Harris31Oct 2020Like plants and people, recipes travel all over the world. They adapt to, but also influence, the context and ingredients available. This event alludes to the importance of reflecting on the effects...
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How national is food culture?
A case study of regional food practices in Turkey
We often distinguish food cultures by assigning them a national name. However, national territories are rarely homogenous and, many times, various food cultures exist within the same country. This...
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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Doomer / Bloomer
- Meme Therapy with Lucie Chateau and Holly Foxton4Jul 2020How are you feeling about climate change? Are you a doomer or a bloomer? Whatever you feel, you are probably not alone. Countless memes are made and posted onto the internet that express emotions...
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The Magic of Cacao
Of flowers, rituals, and sensations
The origins of chocolate -this sublime natural creation- are traced back to the Ulua river valley in Honduras around 1100 BCE (Norton, 2008). The Olmec community or their descendants provided the...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
POSTPONED | Doomer / Bloomer
- Meme therapy with Lucie Chateau22Mar 2020Read here about our recent measures regarding COVID-19 How are you feeling about climate change? Are you a doomer or a bloomer? Whatever you feel, you are probably not alone. Countless memes are...
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Laura Burgers
Laura Burgers studied law and French in Amsterdam, Paris and New York. In 2016, she started her PhD research at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Law on the democratic legitimacy of judicial...
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Of Urine, Pickled Leather, and Tanneries
A Case of Scent Zoning in 17th-century Amsterdam
Once a small port-city, Amsterdam began to resemble the bustling city we know today by the early modern era. In fact, during Amsterdam’s “Golden Age”—between 1585 and 1663—the city population grew...
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Dutch Pavilion Venice Willem Velthoven
Cinema Olanda at Venice Biennale
13May 2017- Nederlandse bijdrage onderzoekt postkoloniale geschiedenis van klein westers landje26Nov 2017Wendelien van Oldenborgh mocht dit jaar Nederland vertegenwoordigen in Venetië. Ze maakte een paar films over de nederlandese maatschappij aan het eind van de twintigste eeuw.
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Organization: Marie-Claire Springham
Burton Nitta
The London-based Anglo Japanese duo comprising o Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta describe themselves as “an interdisciplinary art and design studio collaborating with science and technology to...
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Slovak Cabbage Traditions
Cabbage in the Slovak culture and everyday life has a strong tradition, dating back centuries ago. It´s roots lay deep in the folklore, proverbs, superstitions, festive customs and of course...
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Annemieke Hendriks
Als Tomatencurator werkt journalist Annemieke Hendriks bij Mediamatic aan een kleine serie over het kunstwerk tomaat. Jarenlang volgde ze de tomaat door Europa. Van zaad tot supermarkt onderzocht ze...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob, Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash7Oct 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?
- Creating detergent from ash14Aug 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?
- Creating detergent from ash8Sep 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?
- Creating detergent from ash9Jul 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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11. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bahia Shehab
Al-Rihla (The Journey)
1Dec 2016- Mural by Bahia Shehab31Dec 2024Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop right next to our terrace. In order to celebrate her...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Political Stenciling with Bahia Shehab
10Dec 2016- Artist talk and mural painting13Dec 2016Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new calligraphic graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop. In order to celebrate her coming to the...
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Lorenzo van Dyck
Young urban entrepreneur
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Always looking for opportunities
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