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  • Image: Sebastian Kaye (UK)

    The interior of the Black Barn - Pre-insulation.

    It may be a little messy now, but watch this space!
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  • Architecture

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • Verhuur

    Organiseer je evenement bij Mediamatic Biotoop

    Op zoek naar een bijzondere locatie voor je evenement? Mediamatic Biotoop is gevestigd op Dijksgracht 6 in het centrum van Amsterdam. Hier wordt een nieuw stadspark ontwikkeld met uitzicht op het...

  • Potty Parity: what does it mean?

    And why are there always queues in front of women's restrooms?

    The lack of equal access to toilets is considered by some a subtle form of discrimination against women. It may be culturally embedded rather than consciously pursued, yet it is still there. Here is...

  • Cleantech Playground

    A technical and environmental system for De Ceuvel

    The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a planned sustainable, cleantech utility at De Ceuvel in the North of Amsterdam. The project contains land-based offices and a commercial park, Café De Ceuvel, and a...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...

  • The Big Blue

    Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

    Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...

  • 26 Bathrooms and 6 Apartments

    Cinematography notes on the Toilet

    ''It was an affectionate, ironical, critical look at bathroom design - it is not only what people put in their bathrooms, but also what people do in their bathrooms, which is the secret room of the...

  • Architecture of Crisis

    Mr.Takeshita and Dr. Oike on water purification technologies and biomimicry

    Can we change the paradigm in which the toilet is ‘wet’ and the cleaning is ‘dry’? In many areas on Earth people cannot reach drinkable water. At the same time the Western World is still using the...
  • Book: Anthony Vidler 29 Mar 1994

    The Architectural Uncanny

    Essays in the Modern Unhomely

    The book presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets...
  • The Hague, The Netherlands

    TodaysArt 2008 Festival in The Hague

    International Festival for Adventurous Creativity

    Every year, for one weekend, the TodaysArt Festival transforms the city centre of The Hague into an inspiring stronghold of creativity and audiovisual experiences. This year, over 200 artists will...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Joep van Lieshout

    artist and designer

    Joep van Lieshout was born in Ravenstein, The Netherlands in 1963. He studied at the Academy of Modern Art in Rotterdam, Ateliers '63 in Haarlem and Villa Arson in Nice. In 1995 he founded Atelier...

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.
  • Article Jeroen den Uyl

    IJburg is "Jane Jacobs-proof"!

    De wenselijkheid om kleine doorgangen en steegjes
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Sascha Glasl

    Munich Pavilion

    Ein deutscher Pavillon - A German pavilion

    Can architecture pacify the burdened German memory? Can design deal with collective and private grievances from the past? This proposal voices the ambition to stage the re-united state. A public...
  • Performance:

    Beloved

    Geprojecteerde pleinkunst in Gouda

    Beloved' een project van de Rotterdamse kunstenaar Geert Mul, bestaat uit projecties van portretten op de Markt in Gouda.

  • The Mobile City

    A conference on Locative Media, Urban Culture and Identity

    The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands "The Mobile City" is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies
  • Project: Quinten Wolters

    Hup Holland Hoofddoek

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter.

  • 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.
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Frank Gehry

    Sculptural Architect

    The belief that 'architecture is art' has been a part of Frank Gehry's being for as long as he can remember.
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 11#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 2003

    Chinatown

    Meggie Schneider

    Welcome , we read, on a large billboard by the grounds of an idyllic park somewhere in China

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Project Park Utopia

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

  • JOZI(JOHANNESBURG )on MY MIND

    KWANYAMA AYIPHELI KUPHELA IZINYO LENDODA-loosely translated 'where meat does not end but man's teeth finish'

    Johannesburg the pot of many cultures. Here we come to seek Gold but nowadays we make Gold wether it be Gold teeth, Gold cultures YOU WILL BE CHANGED BY THE ENERGY OF THIS CITY The heart is still...

created Simeon Goodwin

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