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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
16Apr 2023During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
19Feb 2023During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
12Mar 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
15Jan 2023Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
11Dec 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Scotch Broom
Cytisus scoparius
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Safflower
Carthamus tinctorius
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Purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
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Black Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
This plant has been traditionally used to relieve menstrually related headaches. It was a favorite herb of the native North Americans and Eclectic physicians for amenorrhea, the absence of...
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Proposal by: Maria Jimena Ricatti
Post-pandemic tasting experience
Project Proposal: Exploring sensory diversity and holistic wellbeing
As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced some degree of smell or taste impairment in the short and long term. However, there are also people who deal with these kinds of...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
25Nov 2022Decay is seen as something negative. That is a mistake. It is not inevitable but we can work with it instead of against it when we build with living materials. With decay in mind, we at Mediamatic...
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Proposal by: Samar Khan
Plants as Spatial Choreographers
Project proposal: letting plants design our living-rooms
My guiding question is: How can plants dances form the basis of multi-species architectural design? I am currently working with the belief that plants are dancers. This follows from observations...
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Proposal by: Leo Kay
The Acid House Of Ideas
Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.
A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
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Proposal by: Stephanie Pau
Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al
Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care
Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world. In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be
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Proposal by: Guy Vincent
Nothing Wasted
Project Proposal: Organic waste fermentation art experiment
Nothing Wasted is a compost installation that receives organic waste from the Mediamatic restaurant, as well as from the public passing by. It is treated using the bokashi method, which ferments...
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Proposal by: Angela Kerr
Forests of Remembrance
Project Proposal: Could the dearly departed save the planet?
As human beings, we honour our dead with rites, tombs and vigils, statues and cenotaphs, processions, pyres and rituals. Our instinct to respectfully bid farewell cuts across cultures, place and time.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
13Nov 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
30Sep 2022Decay is seen as something negative. That is a mistake. It is not inevitable but we can work with it instead of against it when we build with living materials. With decay in mind, we at Mediamatic...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
10Dec 2022Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
8Oct 2022Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Yukihito Kanai
Workshop Tutor: Mud Dye
Yukihito Kanai runs KANAI KOUGEI and inherits the mud-dyeing techniques handed down in the Amami Oshima island to the present day. Not bounded by the framework of traditional crafts, he creates...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
16Oct 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
11Sep 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
13Aug 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...