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Miniponics succes
Many people want it at home
After two days of workshops using the miniponics as a demonstration model, we can say it's a big succes.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Slum Carnival
- Build, brew and consume during 24H Oost23Mar 2013An 8-hour flurry of activity in our temporary city, Freezing Favela. With tours, music, great food and workshops. For instance: learn how to distill vodka, make fresh pasta, construct bricks from old...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop: Build
- Build an aquaponics farm22Mar 2013Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. The best way to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. The fish poo...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Dig up dirt
- A lot comes up during migrating17Mar 2013While we catch our catfish from the towers downstairs to migrate them, we dig up a lot of hidden things from the fish tanks.
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Van Gendthallen
Rainproof Symposium
- Amsterdam vol scheepjes met zure appelen14Mar 2013Regen, regen en nog eens regen. De waterproblematiek in Amsterdam wordt groter. Op 14 maart vond (bij ons om de hoek) het Amsterdam Rainproof Symposium plaats en wij waren er ook. Men kwam langs met...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Please prepare for take-off
- Fly farm to feed our fish10Mar 2013We're on the right side of winter now, so it's time to get our fly farm running again.
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Miniponics
Sustainable fish and plant farm for the living room
This small aquaponics-installation looks good and is eco-friendly. Plants and fish are cultivated together and help each other survive. The Miniponics consists of not much more than a PET-bottle
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Too big, too many
The catfish are growing
Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Testing small aquaponics installations
- Miniponics for smaller spaces3Mar 2013Lately we've been working on a small system we can build with children. This Sunday we're going to make two versions to test which one works best.
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A new system!
Thanks to the workshop participants
Last friday we built a new system. It's about time too, because the catfish are a little bit overstocked.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Migrations
- Let's give them more space24Feb 2013Last friday we built a new system in the greenhouse. At the same time, our catfish are getting bigger and taking up more space. So it's time to get them spreaded more evenly over the four systems.
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A Silly Beast
Choked in his friend
On the morning of Friday's workshop, we found this floating around in Tower 2:
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Vertical Farming Ikea-stijl
Verslag van KamerVragen op 21 februari 2013
‘Boeren‘ in de stad, het is mogelijk en iedereen kan het. Dit werd gisteravond door Willem Velthoven van Mediamatic en John Apesos van Simbicity gedemonstreerd tijdens KamerVragen in de...
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Extra pump for water flow
Trout can't sit - euh, swim - still
Saro installed an extra pump with no hose attached to it to generate extra flow in the water.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
- Build an aquaponics farm22Feb 2013Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. The best way to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. The fish poo...
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From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe
An Aquaponics Mystery:
Where have all the Tilapia gone?
In which Mediamatic's Aquaponic 'sister system' is taken apart… and a discovery is made.
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Trout timeout!
The big one chases the small one
Who knows why trout in captive chase each other? The big trout gives the small one just not a second of rest.
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Cauliflower in the greenhouse
It's happy!
During the workshop in January we replanted the cauliflower from the train system in the new system.
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Energy needed
We made a calculation of energy needed by our systems, this will give us an idea of how much we should produce and how intensive should it be.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Planting out seedlings
- Production gets up-to-speed17Feb 2013Our new nursery has produced the first seedlings of Kike's planting plan.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Show off
- First aquaponics tour10Feb 2013This sunday we'll be taking care of the systems as usual, but we'll also be open to visitors and tell them about our systems.
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Prevention rather than cure
Old saying true for us
Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.
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From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe
Those Oesterzwam bags
Unknown here in the States
At a presentation given by Jim Wheeler, founder of the Sonoma County Mycological Association ( of Northern California )
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PH meter
Brand new easy to use PH & Temp meter
To ensure the right living conditions for our fish we need to measure the PH daily. The liquid tests are quite a hassle and they're not always that accurate. So we bought an electronic one.