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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Caroline Jacob, Mediamatic Foundation
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash9Jul 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Maaike Hommes
Programme and Events Manager 2017 - 2018
Looking for a more ethical relation to nature and other species, I am especially interested in experimenting with different forms of relationality beyond western humanism. Being open to the many...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark What Design Can Do, Mediamatic Foundation
What Design Can Do
23May 2017- Accommodating design as a catalyst of change24May 2017On May 23-24 What Design Can comes together at Mediamatic in a catering accommodation, to discuss in what way design can act as a catalyst of change.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen, Mediamatic Foundation
Cut the Crap met Conny
1Jun 2017- Join us in creating an amazing textile installation31Aug 2017Together with designer Conny Groenewegen and the FAMA (Fashion Machine) team here at Mediamatic, you can help us knit giant fleece banners that will slowly engulf our headquarters! Collaborate with...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen
Fashion Machine
1Jun 2017- An invasion of space by re-recycling matter4Oct 2017The fashion industry: a beautiful but polluting business. The fast pace of clothing production accounts for devastating amounts of material and immaterial consumption, resulting in the misuse of...
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Tempeh Ware at Mediamatic
Save the World by Eating your Plate
Tempeh ware is a new edible table ware developed at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. Here we'll keep you updated about our programme of presentations and workshops. Also we'll publish detailed descriptions...
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About Tempeh Ware
Save the world by eating your plate
Most people know tempeh as an Indonesian side dish, appearing in small, rectangular chunks on a plate. But the time to be square is over, and new shapes enunciate the future of food in sustainable...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Klara Ravat
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist20Apr 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Zuursalon: Tempeh
- Classic food in new forms and flavours26Apr 2017Tempeh, we know it as Indonesian fermented food: soybeans bound together by mycelium. At Mediamatic, we are working on cultural, artistic and culinary applications of mycelium. The potential of...
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The menstrual cup- conveniently liberating
I once met someone travelling who told me she had to fill half of her backpack with period supplies because she was travelling through a Muslim country. Incoming, the menstrual cup: breaking social
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Biotalk: Algorithms from Nature
- Biotalk 27 - with Gianluca Del Gobbo, Timo Dufner and Federico Corradi17May 2017Are the algorithms of living matter also useful for digital arts? Could they for instance be used in live visual performances? And how? Mediamatic and the Live Performers Meeting invite you for this...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Micro-Brewing
- "Microbiologically Brewed to Perfection"18Feb 2017Even though it only takes water, hops, yeast and grains to develop a beer, the variations and additions are endless. During this workshop with brewer and medical microbiologist Jasper Swierstra...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Aquatic harvesting
- Biotalk 26 - with Charlotte van Alem, Ben van den Broek and Sabina Ahn13Apr 2017Will algae farms be the farms of the future? Can washed-up jellyfish be repurposed to make a durable material? Are algae the solution for clean energy harvesting? Through performance and talks, we...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Biomimicry
- what would nature do?10Feb 2017Practice how you can be nature’s apprentice by resolving a design challenge with the help of nature. Many plants, bacteria, animals and fungi have equipped themselves with spectacular features. The...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Regeneration
- Biotalk with Eric Geboers, Caroline Slomp and Aad Kruiswijk17Mar 2017Can we regenerate our man-damaged eco-systems and if so, how? For this Regeneration Biotalk we've invited artist Ivan Henriques, professor Biogeochemistry Caroline Slomp and engineer/architect Eric...
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Karolina Ferenc
There is no static 'over there' we used to call Nature. We, together with our technologies and tools, are its inseparable part. This interconnectedness is fascinating - Nature is not the Other to...
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Caroline Jacob
The multidisciplinary work by Caroline Jacob (1993, Fr) comes about through an intent of questioning and reinterpreting material and process. From an observation of reality to daily life activity
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
We Are Public - Art of Deception
6Jan 2017- Inner Beauty, Bio-Art and Nature8Jan 2017Mediamatic invites members of We Are Public to take a closer look at the exhibition Art Of Deception and join us on a walk through the wondrous world of living art and bio-design. What happens if...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bahia Shehab
Al-Rihla (The Journey)
1Dec 2016- Mural by Bahia Shehab31Dec 2024Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop right next to our terrace. In order to celebrate her...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Cook the Kitchen
- 1st. & 2nd. year students from Rietveld designLAB16Dec 2016Earlier in September, 20 designLAB Students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy occupied Mediamatic to “Cook the Kitchen.” This 4-day workshop consisted out of cooking materials and concepts for the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Materialisation in Art and Design
- by Sandberg Institute Amsterdam30Nov 2016Ten students from the master department ‘Materialisation in Art and Design’ (MAD) at the Sandberg Institute will share, reflect and perform their work. MAD challenges the conventional hierarchy...
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Exhibition Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Als een vis op het droge
13Jan 2017- Like a fish out of water19Sep 2017Arjanne Bode's tattooed by-catch is an investigation into a new European law that should encourage a more sustaintable fishing industry. The official opening of the installation took place on Friday...