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Mediamatic Fabriek
Getting Organized
17jul 2012Sunday we added some new aromatic herbs, bought from the Sunday Market next door, to our system. We also increased the amount of water in both the new four story edifice and the small system.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Adding to the Current Systems
15jul 2012This past meeting we tested the water of the systems as well as added a bit of phosphoric acid. We also built a new tap for the pebble washing system in order to more effectively rinse the clay...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank in Duintjer CS
Aquaponics Workshop
28jul 2012Bij Mediamatic zijn we heel bedreven in het maken van aquaponics systemen: een duurzaam ecosysteem voor voedselproductie, waarbij planten en vissen samen worden gekweekt. De eerste workshop was een...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fine Tuning the New Four-Story Edifice
10jul 2012Last friday was our second Aquaponics Workshop where we built a new high density four-story edifice to replace the one currently on loan to the Designhuis in Eindhoven. Participants in the sold out...
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Workshop: New Energy Docks: Green Metropole
Aquaponics Workshop @ Festival of Cools
10okt 2012Bij Mediamatic zijn we bedreven in het maken van aquaponics systemen: een duurzaam ecosysteem voor voedselproductie, waarbij planten en vissen samen worden gekweekt. Tijdens de Dag van Duurzaamheid...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics: a review before the workshop
3jul 2012The high density 4-storey Aquaponic Edifice, together with the Diesel Kantine of João Negro, had its first showing at the Food and Architecture Fair in Amsterdam and it is now in Eindhoven for the...
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project:
Polydome
Polydome is a revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production.
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Daniel Höwekamp
Daniel is een biologisch architect, en directeur van aayu architecten. Woonachtig in Amsterdam.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics groep workshop op maat
1jan 201331dec 2013Aquaponics is een duurzaam ecosysteem voor voedselproductie, waarbij planten en vissen samen worden gekweekt. Graag een groenere werkplek? Mediamatic ontwerpt aquaponics-installaties op Hollands...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Preparing Migration
19jun 2012Yesterday we worked on the Kantine, trying to find the best way to build it and experiment on its design. pH values are still our priorities, so we continued to test them in order to stabilize their...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Nursery and Kantine Sunday
17jun 2012On June 17th the Aquaponic Group will meet around 13:00 (1 pm) at the Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam to finish the nursery for fishes and plants seedlings and build a diesel kantine. Also we're going...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Researching and Building
12jun 2012Our last building Sunday was very productive: we did several chemical tests on water, improved the tripledecker tower by replacing the grow beds' metal supports with bamboo, strengthened the LEd...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fishes/plants nursery and PH values
10jun 2012We have already built three systems, now it's time to dig into some important aspects: how to control Ph values? What is a good plant fertilizer?
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Growing Mediamatic
Art, design and bioculture
Growing Mediamatic looks to new techniques for the responsible management of resource use, experimentation with new forms of energy, and the exploration of biotechnology and eco-culture. Our goal is...
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Mycelium products
Mycelium, mushrooms, and more...
Mycelium based materials can someday replace plastic. Artists, designers, mycologists, and organizations are working with mycelium based materials, growing their own mushrooms, and exploring this new...
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Climate Control
Heating, cooling, ventilation
Research into sustainable and innovative systems to heat, cool, and ventilate the Fabriek.
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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.
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Urban Farming
Research on urban farming practices
The line between the city and the country is becoming blurred and new practices are cropping up daily which bring the farm to the urban environment. We are looking into urban farming practices and...
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Kitchens and Cooking
Research on innovative kitchens and cooking methods
How can we rethink the way we cook and the environment we cook in? Think mobile kitchens, making bio-diesel from discarded frying oil, and cooking with expired produce.
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Portable Harvesters
Harvesters to carry along
Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests is a project by Hanspeter Kadel and Myriel Milicevic. This is a set of five different harvesters that can be carried along for the everyday energy harvesting...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Meeting
5jun 2012Let's make things better!
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank in Duintjer CS
Bio Data Visualisatie Workshop
13jun 2012Het doel van deze experimentele workshop is het herontdekken en opnieuw in kaart brengen van Amsterdam. We gaan samenwerken met slijmzwammen en gebruiken haar geweldige cognitieve vaardigheden om zo...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
6jul 2012Bij Mediamatic experimenteren we met aquaponics: een duurzaam ecosysteem voor voedselproductie, waarbij planten en vissen samen worden gekweekt. De eerste workshop was een succes en we delen graag...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Group meet Sensemaker
29mei 2012During last Saturday's workshop, with the help of enthusiastic volunteers, we built a 4-storey aquaponics system. Now it's time to think how to improve it and arrange its tuning.