Pigeon Towers across the world

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Pigeon Tower - Esfahan, Iran Photo by Erwin Bolwidt. These towers (there used to be many more of them) are used to collect pigeon droppings, to be used as manure.

Pigeon towers in Iran - Pigeon towers once used to collect guano in the countryside near Isfahan.

Pigeon Tower in Qatar - Pigeon Tower by Abdullah Al-Shackarchi. A classic symbol, the picture shows two filled in pigeon towers taken at The Cultural Village, Katara. Photo by Creative Commons Qatar

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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

Commence Operation

We are building a Pigeon Tower #2

During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...
Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon…

What are those structures outside the barn at Mediamatic?

Because these structures are made from living mycelium WHAT you call it probably depends on WHEN you encounter it. At first they are horizontal mushroom farms, and many of our neighbours have...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts

Death is in the air, and you can smell it

The demise of the pigeon towers

While mushrooms emerge, grow, mature and decay, the towers shrink and bend under their own weight. And we keep building. Trying to reach and hold the height of the tower. We feel the need to repair...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nehis Osagie

Ins & Outs / Do's & Dont's

We are building a Pigeon Tower #1

In this blog series we will share the findings we have discovered after every workshop. There will be many questions found here regarding the process of building the tower both from us and those who...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt

Defining the Shape

Square and Round

Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
Celebrating Pigeons

Feral city pigeons have a bad reputation but that says more about us humans than it says about the pigeon. It's also a relatively recent perception. Throughout history, pigeons have always been...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

Pigeon Cam

On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

Mycelium Pigeon Towers

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- by Arne Hendriks

New pigeon towers emerge as old ones slowly collapse into fertile soil at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms.
How to hold a pigeon

Learning from our new squabs

Yesterday we welcomed our new squabs (young pigeons) into their new home, at the top of Chim (tower n.11).
Feeling pigeon today?

Creating a Facefilter

How does it feel to be a pigeon? Of course, nobody can ever tell, and probably even each pigeon on its own feels different about it. But to support the feeling to be part of the pigeon community I...

created Anne Lakeman modified Parvin Bungenberg de Jong

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