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Mediamatic Fabriek
Feng shui the Trash Lab
- Share your breeze and brains with us10Mar 2013During workshops Trash Lab will turn trash from the Freezing Favela into new design products. But first they need to build their workshop space. Join them for a healthy dose of design questions and...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Cardboard box therapy
- Create a Paper Universe10Mar 2013The Paper Universe boys are creating their cardboard universe realm in the Freezing Favela. This therapeutic process involved tearing hundreds of pieces of from cardboard boxes, slitting and joining...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
A really big T-shirt fort
- Pretty Nice Stuff Workshop Space10Mar 2013The guys from Pretty Nice Stuff made their workshop space. They sewed a 9-meter-high T-shirt that can function as their fort. In between sewing there was plenty of playing around and rolling on the...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Slum Sessions #14
- Relaxing and questions5Mar 2013After a heavy building weekend it was time to relax with hot soup and have a talk about the progress of the projects with your neighbors. We had a general question round.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Building heat and hygiene
- Hot Love Nest and the Favela Sauna3Mar 2013This weekend we started constructing an oven for warmth and a shower for cleanliness. Mediamatic Fabriek is still pretty darn cold, and the Sauna and Hot Love Nest will make all the difference.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Create a Paper Universe
- Cardboard box therapy3Mar 2013The people behind the Paper Universe began creating their cardboard realm in the Freezing Favela. This therapeutic process involves tearing hundreds of pieces of from cardboard boxes, slitting and...
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Amsterdam Rainproof Symposium
Gezamelijk tegengaan van overtollig water op straat!
Hoe kunnen we er gezamenlijk voor zorgen dat Amsterdam bestand is tegen hevige regen én dat ‘water op straat’ wordt geaccepteerd als legitieme wijze voor waterberging en -afvoer? Het Amsterdam...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
City Dust Pavilion is coming
- The place to rest3Mar 2013In the swarming building bustle within the Freezing Favela it's always nice to have a nice and quiet moment to yourself. That is why on March 3rd a City Dust Pavilion will be placed where you, if...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Design the Trash Lab
- Feng shui in the Freezing Favela3Mar 2013Calling all (should-have-been) designers and decorators. We've built most of the main structure of the Trash Lab already, and now it's time to make it look amazing. Join us and give color, class and...
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Organization:
UNStudio
UNStudio is an international architectural practice that was founded in Amsterdam in 1988. The firm’s architects have extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, infrastructure, public, private...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Create a Paper Universe
- Cardboard box therapy24Feb 2013The people behind the Paper Universe began creating their cardboard realm in the Freezing Favela. This therapeutic process involves tearing hundreds of pieces of from cardboard boxes, slitting and...
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Sandberg Instituut
School of Missing Studies: call for applications
22Feb 20131Apr 2013Application deadline: April 1st, 2013
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Build a Trash Lab
- Not just screwing around23Feb 2013Build a space that will act as a local waste research and product design hub. The Trash Lab can use extra hands to put up their main structure within the Freezing Favela.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
A human-sized bird nest
21Feb 2013- In progress at Mediamatic Fabriek28Feb 2013Performance artist Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick likes to get physical with his art. Using all the proper climbing gear he hoisted himself up in the Mediamatic Fabriek and began building his human-sized...
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School of Missing Studies
Be realistic, demand the impossible
‘As political and economic forces have come to shape the perception of culture, (art) education—regarded as a place of cultural production—has fallen behind. Education and learning need to reclaim...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Slum Sessions #12
- Soup and Talk19Feb 2013We opened our doors for Freezing Favela citizens who wanted to talk over some hot soup. We chatted about building days and made preparations. Keep an eye on our Freezing Favela events for days to...
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Pigeon Fertilizing Tower
Bringing pigeons' fertilization power back into the cycle of life by collecting their shit in a pigeon tower made from recycled paper.
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Held and Bordy Family Gallery - Windward School
Windward Mapping Project
1Feb 2013- Psychogeographic Data Visualization Series26Feb 2013A unique project, mapping the cities of Dakar, Panama City, Los Angeles and Amsterdam, by the Dutch Panamanian Visual Artist Antonio Jose Guzman.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Make Pretty Nice Stuff
- Sew the tallest T-shirt tent you ever saw3Mar 2013The pretty nice boys will provide workshops for people: young and old, hairy and hairless, short and not-so-short. Together they play with printing and painting techniques such as silk-screening
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Ignite Amsterdam
Footage and info
Ignite is a worldwide event showcasing locals and their personal and professional passions. It is fast-paced and merciless: speakers get five minutes to present, making use of twenty slides that auto
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Slum Sessions #11
- Unusual building advice12Feb 2013At this session provided wisdom from a creative garbage architect and a list of our leftover materials. We also discussed building schedules, electricity availability and all that fun stuff.
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Spatial Effects
Make an inflatable
- Learn to inflate your imagination7Feb 2013We visited Theo Botschuijver, a master of inflatables and a maker of dreams. Theo showed us around his studio and explained how to start making an inflatable structure.
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Alice Cappelli
Social Designer
My visual story With a degree and a master in product design, I work in the field of international cooperation in the developing world, taking part in projects relating to the handicraft sector...