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  • Image: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST)

    Border Ecologies - Khuza'a farm

    Courtesy by FAST - Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) Image source
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  • "Resilience, reality and surviving"

    Amir Qudaih about our upcoming exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip

    “You don't really have too many people from Gaza outside here because we don't really make it out. Gaza is a very small place, it's literally three miles wide, 17 miles long. You can run it and it's...

  • 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...
  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • Ground Euro

    The European Union is hot! Without any doubt.

  • Amersfoort aan zee ?

    Het Delta programma werkt aan een droge toekomst

    De Deltacommissie onder leiding van Prof. Dr. C.P. Veerman heeft in september 2008 aan de overheid een rapport aangeboden met een integrale visie op de uitdagingen waar Nederland in de toekomst voor...

  • Jewish houses in Amsterdam 'Is dit jouw huis?'

    This is an expanding picture wall with houses where Jews lived in Amsterdam before and during the second World War. In the special Parool newspaper insert from Mediamatic and the Amsterdam 4 & 5 Mei...

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Jasper Altena 1 Jan 1998

    On a Secret Mission

    Lieutenant Coulon

    On January 21st, 1913, Lieutenant Coulon, secret agent with French military intelligence, reported to his commander in Hanoi. His assignment was to investigate the political and military situation in...
  • 1 Jan 1997

    Community with an Object

    Developing Business in Developing countries

    Mediamatic Lab built a cool web 2.0 community network for Dutch Development Aid organisation NCDO. BiD Network uses semantic web, FOAF and tagging to help entrepreneurs in developing countries build...

  • Rising in the East

    Rising in the East: Contemporary Asian New Towns examines not only the urban designs, the architectural and urban character of these New Towns, but also the intricate political, economic, and social...

  • New Order Catalog

    The New Order catalog was included in Volume Magazine 32:2 (2012). It features information on the artworks, an interview with Femke Herregraven and Chris Lee, an introduction by curators Katja...

  • Love and hate, holiness and cruelty

    Diana Marrone talks about Naples

    Diana Marrone is of the curators in the Amsterdam Biennale and a guide for Naples (Italy) on the Mediamatic Travel website . She tells about the love-hate relationship she has with her city. Read...
  • Article Jeroen den Uyl

    IJburg is "Jane Jacobs-proof"!

    De wenselijkheid om kleine doorgangen en steegjes
  • Book: Rory Hyde 6 Sep 2012

    Future Practice

    Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

    Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited...

  • Van Moskou tot Magadan

    Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland

    Wie zijn de Russen zijn en wat drijft ze? Journalist en schrijver Jelle Brandt Corstius maakt een ontdekkigstocht door het hele land op zoek naar een antwoord. Een docuserie van 7 afleveringen, v/a...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3 Mathilde ter Heijne 1 Jan 2001

    A collective Psychosis?

    Interview

    Mathilde ter Heijne interviews German psychoanalyst Gertrud Hardtmann, October 13, 2001

  • Project Park Utopia

    A co-created festival of societal reinvention: Self-governance for sustainable living.

  • NDSM, or the resurrection of the shipbuilding…

    The Noord participants explore Amsterdam Noord

    Our guests discussed Amsterdam's cultural life with Eva De Klerk. They talked about gentrification and the future of Amsterdam Noord.

  • An interview with Kareem Lotfy

    Cairo, the tale of love and hate.

    Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and feeling like a tourist.
  • Project:

    Informatiereservaten

    Op zoek naar de nieuwe leegtes in de stad en hun betekenis

    De sociale media zorgen voor een informatierevolutie en -explosie - maar niet overal. De stad kent informatiereservaten , plekken waarover niet getweet, geflickrd of geblogd wordt. Waar zijn die...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

created Julia van der Veen modified Julia van der Veen

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