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  • Urine and philosopher's stone

    How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

    For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...
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  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

    Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

    Without a flushing tank at their service, medieval people had to interact with their urine much more often than we do. Immediate proximity to the material inspired in our ancestors some mind blowing...

  • The Urine Brick

    Building the future

    What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.

  • Urine implants?

    Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.

    Pis’ blog’s returning readers must be hard to surprise: they are already well-aware of urine-powered mobile phones, pee tea, pee fonts, furniture made out of pee and other fruits of humans’ insanity.

  • What is Bio-Design?

    For those new to the subject who would like a little clarity on what this field encompasses and what role Mediamatic takes in relation to this.

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

  • The ultimate probiotic yoghurt

    Vagina Yoghurt

    Cecilia Westbrook from the University of Wisconsin has tried to create yogurt from her vaginal fluids. Her goal was to explore and use the vagina's probiotic properties.   

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Visitor Information

    You can visit Dijkspark and the Casting Doubts installation daily. The seedcard however are only for sale during opening hours of Mediamatic ETEN, which you can find here . The Casting Doubts...

  • Urine-tricity

    Your pee can power a lightbulb!

    A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • Rupert Sheldrake

    And the morphic fields

    After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College, working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship. He investigated auxin

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • Bio Clean Lab Layout (old)

    Floor and wallplan

    The Bio Clean lab is a tidily organised space where many projects are worked on simultaneously. That means that appropriate storage and object placement is paramount for all collaborations. The Clean...
  • Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė

    Are you prepared for the Halloween?

    This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...

  • Prope(e)r

    Portable urinals for women.

    Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...

  • Pissing and the public

    Most animals have excretory systems for elimination of soluble wastes. Humans are no different. While we may regard ourselves as much more evolved, in many ways we still resemble all the other...

  • Rhythm of Life

    From the water of life

    Through the combined narratives of traditional Chinese medicine and modern technology, Thought Collider's Aqua Vita-project visualises personal metabolic development and health with the help of their...

  • Lab-specific Recipes

    How to feed and treat your micro organisms

    Working on a lab is a lot like cooking. You can prepare the food for your little pets, the micro organisms. There are a couple of rules involved; like extreme cleanliness. But if you practice a bit

  • DNA Portraits

    DNA by Marc Quinn

    When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...

  • Pliny's panacea

    The ancients and pee

    From time immemorial, urine fascinated mankind. People ascribed to it's magic powers, using it to bleach hair, boost crops, perform curses, seduce, and whatnot. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"...

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