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  • Image: Zeger Reyers

    Zeger Reyers installing his new artpiece

    The new installation of Zeger Reyers consists of over a 1000 plates that will be overgrown with grasses.
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  • Bio-me

    designed with organisms

    Bio-me. 3-day of talks, masterclasses, tastings and presentations concerning all that is designed with living organisms.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Cam

    On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Weimin Zhu

    Playful Jewelry for the Inner World

    26
    Aug 2022
    31
    Dec 2024
    - Exhibition by Weimin Zhu

    'Playful Jewelry for the Inner World' is a collection of silver jewelry that invites the wearer to move meditatively. The rhythmic movements bring you closer to your inner world, make you more aware...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Pure Gold

    18
    Sep 2015
    18
    Sep 2025
    - by Kamiel Rongen

    It's an artwork, but you can use it. Pee in our urinals while enjoying the hypnotizing videos by Kamiel Rongen. We are happy to collect your fluid contribution and create a powerful fertilizer for...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Our location from 2011 till 2014

    Mediamatic has moved on average every 3 years. Mediamatic is a gallery, project space, aquaponics farm and cafeteria. In December 2011 we moved part of our activities to the Van Gendthallen on...

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • Dijksgracht 6

    Mediamatic's new location

    On November 19 2014, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. A great area near the waterside, within walking distance from Amsterdam's Central Station. In the following months...

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  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • Building with Living Materials

    Architectural design with biology programme at Mediamatic

    In 2014 Mediamatic started to develop a new program that combines architecture with living materials in experimental ways. Living materials cannot only be more ecological, they offer very exiting new...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Linde van Beers, Ashley Scarborough

    Myco Brewery Growing Process

    How we grow beautiful mycelium products

    From early October we began to have consistent success with our mycelium growth on the spent grain from our myco brewery, so we thought the best way to celebrate this is to share our knowledge of the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh is made into sheet materials!

    Cooking tempeh as a sheet material

  • Inflatable Clean Lab

    Portable mycelium research area

    The Inflatable Clean Lab is a portable structure consisting of HEPA filters, a blower, and plastic material. When the Clean Lab needs to be used, it will be inflated with the same blower used to...

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

  • Urban Eden, human error

    Bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds

    Allison Kudla's project based on the formation of a living and growing biological material via its collaboration with an engineering mechanism.

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Geodesic dome research

    Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.

    Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.

  • Clean Lab Report

    February 2016

    The Clean Lab has been undergoing some changes recently. The area has been cleared to make way for an all new clean space with new equipment and workbenches to facilitate the growing needs of the...
  • 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...

  • Developing our spawn & panel mixtures

    Some observations from the growth of our spawn and panels in the bio-lab

    What kind of quality and texture do we want our insulation panels to consist of? Selecting appropriate substrate mixtures is the first step to achieving the ideal material.
  • Book: Sylvia Bernstein 11 Nov 2011

    Aquaponic Gardening

    A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together

    Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive do-it-yourself home manual, focused on giving you all the tools you need to create your own aquaponic system and enjoy healthy, safe, fresh, and delicious food...
  • Proposal by: Samar Khan

    Plants as Spatial Choreographers

    Project proposal: letting plants design our living-rooms

    My guiding question is: How can plants dances form the basis of multi-species architectural design? I am currently working with the belief that plants are  dancers. This follows from observations...

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