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    Aquaponics

    Lily Pad Farm owner Adam Harwood holds a three-week-old lettuce plant grown using aquaponics.
  • ecosystem management
  • Aquaponics
  • plants
  • water

  • Get rich with aquaponics

    Successful plants in our aquaponics greenhouse

    Having an aquaponic system in an unheated greenhouse creates very specific conditions for plants. Some of the plants love it; others not so much. As many of the plants we have sowed have reached...

  • Bladluis en mier vs lieveheersbeestje en koud…

    aquaponics biogevechten

    Omdat onze planten zo lekker zijn moeten we ze beschermen tegen indringers. De kleinste indringers weten toch onze kas binnen te sluipen. Munt en peterselie worden aangevallen door bladluizen. Wij...

  • Bright and shiny

    Philips LEDs give new perspective to grow lights

    Those new grow LEDs we got from Philips are very bright indeed! It feels like we've been trying to get plants growing in dusk al this time

  • Fish, plant, rack

    Quasi symbiotic environment for machine, fish and hydroponics

    Andy Gracie's work allows the electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish to instruct the actions of a robot whose task is to monitor the development of plants in a hydroponic system.

  • Pruning tomatoes

    Light and air

    My father has years and years of experience growing tomatoes. The first thing I learned from him was pruning. 'The most important thing', according to him.

  • A system in Museon

    Part of exhibition '#stad van de toekomst'

    The Mediamatic Aquaponics Team was invited to build an installation at the Museon in Den Haag. It's become part of an exhibition about the future of cities.

  • Iron Deficiency

    Deep red water, but healthy plants.

  • Cauliflower in the greenhouse

    It's happy!

    During the workshop in January we replanted the cauliflower from the train system in the new system.

  • The Flying Aquaponics Team in Izmir

    November 15 and 16, 2013

    Contemporary art organization K2 in Izmir is currently in the middle of the process leading to an exhibition in March 2014 about the ecology of the city. They invited us to do an aquaponics workshop...

  • First sprouts transplanted to the Aquaponics…

    Field Peas (Capucijners) are looking great!

    New season starts for the Aquaponics Systems. After few days awaiting for our first shoots we have finally some baby plants to transplant to the grow beds.
  • Project in mind Antoni Gandia, Daniel Parnitzke, lukas pressler

    Beers, mushrooms, algae and more

    Hey! ho! Let's grow!

    Designing sustainable agronomic systems

  • Cooling a greenhouse

    How to cool a greenhouse on hot summer days

    With the summer approaching, the temperature in the greenhouse were rising. On sunny days the temperature can skyrocket during this time of year. Imagine what the temperature in the greenhouse will...

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...

  • Extra pump for water flow

    Trout can't sit - euh, swim - still

    Saro installed an extra pump with no hose attached to it to generate extra flow in the water.

  • Aquaponics

    Fish feeding plants, plants feeding fish

    Mediamatic has assembled a team to work on aquaponics projects at Mediamatic Fabriek. View their work here. On this page you can find research on future aquaponics projects.

  • Iron, Man

    Testing Iron Levels in our Aquaponics Setup

    Maintaining proper iron levels is essential in aquaponics.

  • Floating Pool on the IJ

    Space and Matter tries to realize a floating swimmingpool in the IJ. This idea was born during the game Play Noord! and got positive reactions.

  • Ted talk Aquaponics

    Een mooie uitleg van Charlie Price over hoe Aquaponics werkt

    Bekijk deze fantastische Ted Talk over Aquaponics . Waarin uitgelegd wordt wat Aquaponics is en kan beteken voor de nieuwe voedsel revolutie.

  • A new system!

    Thanks to the workshop participants

    Last friday we built a new system. It's about time too, because the catfish are a little bit overstocked.

  • A 'Sister System' for the Mediamatic Aquaponics…

    How similar is a system of almost the same design... in a very different climate?

    For family reasons, I am leaving Amsterdam and returning to my native San Francisco. … Just as things are getting interesting with the system at Mediamatic's Urban Farm... A 'sister system' system in...

  • Miniponics

    Sustainable fish and plant farm for the living room

    This small aquaponics-installation looks good and is eco-friendly. Plants and fish are cultivated together and help each other survive. The Miniponics consists of not much more than a PET-bottle

  • Black Soldier Fly

    All hail the lords of composting

    Documenting our black soldier fly experiment

  • Fabriek Research

    Project research for the Fabriek

    This is the research that the Mediamatic staff has been doing for the Fabriek. Each of the items in the set are a different topic, and research on that topic is listed there. Want to add something?

  • Natural Fuse

    OFF, SELFLESS and SELFISH

    Natural Fuse creates a city-wide network of electronically-assisted plants that act both as energy providers and as circuit breakers.

created Antoni Gandia modified Antoni Gandia

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