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 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, 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 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.
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).
Mycelium Pigeon Towers

Collection of Design Research Questions

Is mycelium waste from the oyster mushroom industry an effective material to build with? Can we build structures to house Amsterdams feral pigeons? Do pigeons accept a mycelium structure as a place...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

Cartier

Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
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...
Live on the Towers!

Dog Vomit slime mould on Gentle

A couple of weeks ago, after heavy rain, a bright yellow gooey patch appeared on one of our older towers: Gentle (pigeon tower n.4). This patch started out looking elastic and glutinous, and seemed...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

Gentle

Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...

created Anne Lakeman modified Parvin Bungenberg de Jong

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