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Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 1
Pickled Herring
Along the lines of the previous topic : The Amsterdam port did not only shelter ships coming from abroad. Some of the vessels coming into the docks were also ships related to local industry. During...
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Balanophagy
Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture
“Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.
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Organization:
Wellant College
Wellantcollege is de grootste vmbo- en mbo-opleider van Europa in voeding, klimaat en welzijn van mens en dier.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Alan Turingschool en Ernst Haeckel
- 201810Apr 2019On the 10th of April group three of the Alan Turingschool visited Mediamatic to watch, to touch, to learn and to do. That day we started with a short introduction about us at Mediamatic Biotoop.
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Organization:
Alan Turingschool
Het concept van de Alan Turingschool is geworteld in de wetenschap, waarbij de leerkracht een centrale rol speelt bij het begeleiden van het leren van leerlingen in hun eigen tempo. De leerkracht...
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A warehouse ablaze
Fire of 1791
It is true that many of the scents that infected the Amsterdam air was by way of the VOC/WIC ships coming to and from the harbour. In a way, a major import – albeit unintentional- from these...
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Organization:
Orion College
Orion biedt kinderen en jongeren met speciale onderwijsbehoeften in Amsterdam goed (voortgezet) speciaal onderwijs met passende zorg of ambulante begeleiding waardoor zij de best mogelijke kans van...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
24Oct 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
17Oct 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
10Oct 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
3Oct 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Eveline Stilma
Eveline Stilma's interesse voor planten is in haar jeugd begonnen. Zij heeft plantenteelt gestudeerd in Wageningen en is gepromoveerd op het ontwerp van biodiverse teeltsystemen. Tijdens haar...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
26Sep 2019Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Tommaso Buresti
Former Chef Mediamatic ETEN
Italian chef Tommaso Buresti grew up in the kitchen of his father's restaurant. He has been cooking for as long as he can remember and loves to experiment with food.
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Pelts and skin
Smelly goods from New Amsterdam
“If it was the search for a short route to Asia that brought the Dutch to North America, it was the beaver that made them stay” ( NNI, 2019 ). Like most trade network, the North American fur trade...
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Of mothballs and grandma
Camphor's history with the Dutch
Cinnamomum Camphora , the fragrant camphor tree. A possibly large evergreen tree, with pale bark and dots of white flowers which will eventually bloom into small purple berries. While sight of the...
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Aboard a passenger-liner-turned-hospital-ship
The Oranje
Smelly business did not remain in the pre-modern era. It is very much a modern phenomenon just as well. One point of interest for us scent-hunters is the MS Oranje. A 20,166-ton ship, in its hay-day...
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Those Who Bled for Nutmeg
The Narrative Contextualized within Banda Island's Larger History
“The island can be smelled before it can be seen. From more than ten miles out to sea a fragrance hangs in the air and long before the bowler-hat mountain hoves into view you are nearing land.”...
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Mikkel Karstad
Mikkel is a highly acclaimed and influential Copenhagen based Executive Chef, cookbook author, food writer, stylist and food authority who helped define the New Nordic Cuisine movement, in the early...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Co-design with Microbes: Waterkefir
20Oct 2019Learn everything about water kefir; what it is and how you can make it yourself. We will discuss the basic principles of fermentation and you will make your own water kefir that you can take home.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Complete program overview 2018
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Kick-off Tumulus
13Sep 2019To celebrate the next stage of Ruchama Noorda's Tumulus installation, we invite you to come and enjoy some plant based drinks and bites made with ingredients surrounding Mediamatic Biotoop. Join us...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Mapping Scent
- Odorama 33 - with Dora Goldsmith, Birthe Leemeijer, Kate McLean, Gayil Nalls and Caro Verbeek27Sep 2019Kate McLean pioneered Scentscaping, a method to capture the smells of a city onto a map. A recent trend shows artists and researchers alike trying to map scents of cities and areas. Alongside McLean
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Dora Goldsmith
Dora Goldsmith is a PhD student of Egyptology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The topic of her PhD project is the sense of smell in ancient Egypt, the exact title of her research being The...