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  • What is a Neo Futurist Dinner?
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  • Food Wellness

    Following the process of Waew's efforts to create a Thai Sauna experience

    Take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment. Breath out. Feel the steam on your skin.  Imagine being able to relax and take a moment for yourself, knowing that you will enjoy a delicious meal...
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  • Steaming Wellness

    Thai Herbal Sauna vs Dutch Sauna

    The Thai Herbal Sauna experience is very unique and contrasting to the Dutch experience. The Thai is focused more on personal relaxation and rejuvenation of the body, rather than the Dutch one, which...

  • Chicken Coop Sauna

    Structure Experiments

    After Waew made her first prototype of a Sauna Cabin in Thailand, she used plastic and blue metal tubes. In December 2020, she came to the Netherlands to further continue her experiments. Although in...

  • Tofu, Bean curd or Ricepaper?

    Thai Sauna Experiments

    By now, we have already been able to get a taste of the experiments that Waew is currently involved in, to create a Thai Sauna dinner experience. Starting with the willow brand chicken coops, to the...

  • Shrinking Sustainability

    Experimenting with making bioplastic

    Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...

  • One recipe, two hands, three generations

    A conversation with Elena Braida

    For her graduation piece at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Elena Braida created Cucina, è bello! a workshop cooking experience. Through making gnocchi from her grandmothers’ homemade recipe, she asks...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…

    By Alice Héron and Martin Butler

    The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...

  • Take a seat and lean in: The poetry of Code Noir

    Reflecting on representation and language with Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Following the end of the Code Noir dinner series, I had a chat with Rachel Rumai Diaz-- the spoken word artist behind the poetry that breathed life into the culinary journey of our latest Neo
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    What is a Neo Futurist Dinner?

    Neo Futurist Dinner is a programme line at Mediamatic where the world of food, art and science are brought together. During these gastronomical experiences, you will be engulfed in a multi-sensory...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Beauty Dinner: the Recipes

    How to continue treating your skin at home

    Thank you to everyone who participated in The Beauty Dinner, created by artists Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika and chef Alice Héron. As we mentioned, we want you to be able to relive the dinner...

  • 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...

  • The Duality of the Phallic Object

    A conversation with Rixta van der Molen

    When is something phallic? Are we constantly being penetrated? Rixta van der Molen is a young artist who is working with wax and sculpture making to question how our society thinks about “phallic...

  • The Chromatic Dinner won a Food Design Innovation…

    At Beijing Design Festival

    After a succesfull premiering at Mediamatic last fall, The Chromatic Dinner traveled to the Design Festival in L.A. and Seattle . Following, it was presented at Beijing Design Festival, where The...

  • 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...

  • The culinary journey of Code Noir

    Told by Lelani Lewis

    “Code Noir”  is a project that guides its audience along the culinary journey of the cultivation of Caribbean cuisine. The namesake of the immersive dinner is the 17th century manuscript defining the...

  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Day 4: Smelling

    “Do you have heavy or light sadness?”

    The question on the importance of context also guided us through day four, a day that was fully dedicated to olfaction.

  • The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history

    Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Day 2: Touching & Tasting & Hearing

    “I caught a nice fish for you.”

    Day 2 was about storytelling, mutual trust – and a day at the beach. Pauline and Alice created a little storyline that let our minds travel to the beach, while listening to the sound of the ocean...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Sensorial Brainstorming

    From tricking our senses to the magic of Hildegard von Bingen

    As the world slowly but steadily seems to be opening up again, we have been busy preparing one of this year's Neo Futurist Dinner concepts. Artist Martin Butler gathered a team of six people from...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Day 1: Vision

    “It is a process, let it happen.”

    April 26 2021 marked the first day of our Neo Futurist Dinner test week. In an attempt to structure the days that we spent together we agreed on dedicating each day to one sense. Monday started with...
  • Proposal by: Yorke Mulder-Bhangoo

    Krachtvoer

    Project Proposal: Eten wat je eten eet.

    Als je uit het treinraam kijkt naar het prachtige platte Nederlandse landschap zie je, gras, mais, bieten en af en toe tarwe. Allemaal veevoer. We produceren op het schaarse Nederlandse landbouwgrond...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Day 3: Tabula Rasa

    “When is it kicking in?”

    Day 3 became Day 0. We started from scratch, with a table full of ideas. Five senses, seven deadly sins (plus one if you include sadness), different colours corresponding to our senses and also sins...

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark June Yu

    Bodemdrang

    A Neo Futurist Dinner in retrospect

    Four days in late November, every evening, Suzanne Bernhardt and Chef Thor invite guests to a journey through various “earth”: from hardened rock, grainy sand, molten “lava” to burnt clay, crumbly...

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