As the largest organ of the human body, our skin plays a crucial role in protecting our body against external forces from the outside world. As an interface to the environment, it is also responsible for our body’s temperature regulation, sensation, and the storage and synthesis of vitamin D. Unfortunately, many of the external factors that our skin protects us from have, in turn, an impact on the skin itself. Herbs and plants have the ability to support and facilitate our skin’s natural powers by activating skin cell regeneration and inhibiting allergic reactions. On top of that, they can be a gentle alternative to improve acne, heal warts and have a cooling effect after a sunburn.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker
20Jul 2024Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Bronwen Jones is open...
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Chocolate mint
Mentha x piperita f. citrata 'Chocolate'
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scarlet Pimpernel
Anagallis arvensis
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Woody Buttercup
Ranunculus
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Dogs Mercury
Mercurialis perennis
A tricky plant
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Musk Mallow
Malva Moschata
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Japanese sweet flag
Acorus gramineus
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Wild strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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Knowledge Page Alix Briere
Hortus Dijkspark Knowledge
What is the Hortus Dijkspark project?
This project is used to keep tract of the extensive list of plants we have growing here at Mediamatic. We tract their growing location (see 'Hortus Map'), some general plant information such as their...
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Scotch Broom
Cytisus scoparius
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Safflower
Carthamus tinctorius
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Purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
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Black Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
This plant has been traditionally used to relieve menstrually related headaches. It was a favorite herb of the native North Americans and Eclectic physicians for amenorrhea, the absence of...
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Proposal by: Marc van Will, Kees Wabeke
Kicks voor nix in de natuur
Project Proposal: ontspanning binnen handbereik
In deze tijd van constante prikkels is het steeds belangrijker om succesvol te kunnen ontspannen. Ontspannen is een vaardigheid die we opnieuw lijken te moeten leren. In het zoeken zijn we bereid...
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Proposal by: Rosalie Bak
Until death makes us parts
Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy
This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...
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Proposal by: Qiaochu Guo
Twining The Underneath
Project proposal: Reading the body through Moxibustion
This project is Inspired by moxibustion which heats up the body by burning the wormwood above the skin's surface, thereby achieving a means of curing diseases. This traditional therapy means to...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Hortus Dijkspark
1May 20181May 2028Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Klik hier om meer te weten te...
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Lemon grass
Cymbopogon citratus
What's more to know about this exotic plant?
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New Zealand spinach
Tetragonia tetragonioides
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Goji berry
Lycium barbarum
Meet the antioxidant fruit
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Lemon verbena
Aloysia citrodora
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Wax begonia
Begonia semperflorens-cultorum
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Marrokaanse munt
Mentha spicata var. cripsa 'Moroccan'
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Vietnamese coriander (rau răm)
Persicaria odorata
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