-
Proposal by: Mario Mimoso
Floating Havens
Project Proposal: Regenerating city life
Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
-
Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez
Oak Tales
Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes
Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...
-
Proposal by: Bas Huijbers
Green Office
Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs
Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
-
Proposal by: Racha Tarazi
My Dinner
Project Proposal: Digesting emotions
My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...
-
Proposal by: Anonymous
Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…
Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen
Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...
-
Proposal by: Lucie Majerus
Colour-Smells of Amsterdam
Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs
As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
-
Proposal by: Krisztina Czika
What's left to capture?
Project Proposal: Underwater journey
'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...
-
Proposal by: Maaike Anne Stevens
Bipolaris
Project proposal: Essay film
Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...
-
Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot
Piss Soap
Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
-
Proposal by: Mariko Hori
Archive something we don't know yet
Project Proposal: Understanding water conditions through paper making
This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.
-
Proposal by: Thom van Hoek
Object Permanence
Project proposal: Levend sculptuur
Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...
-
Proposal by: Sieta Maria van Horck
Bodies of Land
Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land
Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...
-
Proposal by: Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca
Inclusive Patching.
Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability
It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...
-
Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Living Waste Mycelium
16Dec 2022We build pigeon towers with living waste mycelium. We want to learn how to work with living matter, for other than human life, with limited control over the material, with a sense of time and space.
-
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Knit for Survival!
-
Vita Buivid
Artist / Photographer
Ukrainian / Russian artist / photographer. Buivid is considered to be one of the forward-thinking feminists in Russian art. An especially memorable project has been a series of «How I Spent My...
-
Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
6Mar 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
-
2022 Iliana Metaxa
Getting intimate through stitches
Meet Desirée Hammen
Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.
-
Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Embroidery
12Mar 2022Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...
-
2022 Iliana Metaxa
Stitches, Threads and Needles
Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery
From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
-
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Embroidery
with Desirée Hammen
Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...
-
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Harbour
with Mariko Hori
Have you ever wondered what the harbour underwater smells like? -Of course not! Well, now you have the chance to experience transforming your interpretations of a scent into music. Guided by artist...
-
Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Embroidery
12Feb 2022Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...
-
Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Living Spaces for Pigeons
28Jan 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...