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Living Tower Talk #9 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
It takes more than Listening to Hear
- with Harpo 't Hart, Sheng-wen Lo, Thijs de Zeeuw and Arne Hendriks28Jun 2024The city is a noisy place. Not only for and by people. Animals also make the necessary noise and are bothered by us. But what about trees or fish? What about soil or mycelium? What sound do they...
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Living Tower Talk #8 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Life Beyond Borders
- with Joost Janmaat, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Janneke de Lange31May 2024When does something change from wanted to unwanted? From native to invasive? During this Tower Talk we wonder who determined the boundaries of this. A boundary remains a strange concept
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Knotweed Hunt - Flevopark
- Join us in foraging some knotweed!18Apr 2024LAST MINUTE CHANGE: The foraging is now in Flevopark, see our instagram for the exact location. During the knotweed season there is a lot of Japanese knotweed to forage. Join us and forage some...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Knotweed Hunt - Erasmuspark
- Join us in foraging some knotweed!11Apr 2024During the knotweed season there is a lot of Japanese knotweed to forage. Join us and forage some knotweed for your upcoming workshop yourself! We share the location where we will forage each week so...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
- with Saro van Cleynenbreugel2Jun 2024Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Living Tower Talk #7 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Exoten in de Stad
- with Arne Hendriks, Thijs de Zeeuw, Teun Castelein, Joël Broekaert, Lonneke Aarts & Ruben Bunder12Apr 2024In the city, various "invasive" species can be found, such as the ring-necked parakeet. Artist Teun Castelein will come to talk more about it. Below, you can see his winning entry for a new artwork...
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Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…
Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?
Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...
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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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Bokashiponics
Bokashi: a nutritious wondertea or an overhyped fairytale?
We are investigating what it would take to turn our aquaponics system into a hydroponics system. The main question is where we will source our nutrients. We want our fertilizer to be as organic and...
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Understanding salinity units and conversions
What are the units for salinity? Can they be converted into one another, to homologate research data?
Salinity is the concentration of dissolved salts in water; it is a critical parameter in various fields, including oceanography, environmental science, and water quality monitoring. Salinity plays a...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Some IBCs Furniture?
While doing the design research for the mediamatic, I noticed a recurring and pragmatic choice of material that became apparent over the past decades at the art centre - IBC tanks.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
T - Building Aquaponic Systems (new)
- with Saro Van Cleynenbreugel1Jan 4300Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It stands out as an excellent method for urban food production due to its minimal space...
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People
Get to know the team that is working on Grain of Salt.
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Ton Denters
Ton Denters is an urban ecologist and specialist of Dutch flora, author of the reference book Stadsflora van de Lage Landen and The urban district, a biogeographical acquisition. Denters describes...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
- with Saro van Cleynenbreugel15Oct 2023Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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mediamatic eten Justin Knelange
From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons
In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos
As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...
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Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics
Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy
As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...
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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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
- with Saro van Cleynenbreugel11Jun 2023Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Dealing with pests
The pineapple sage infestation
With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
with Saro van Cleynenbreugel
Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
- with Saro van Cleynenbreugel12Mar 2023Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
- with Saro van Cleynenbreugel11Dec 2022Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.