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    Who ate my furniture?

    Shinwei Rhoda Yen - Mushrooms ate my furniture From the website designboom Designer Shinwei Rhoda Yen presented this natural wood garden furniture at the Stockholm Design Week 2009. The mushrooms are...
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  • Moulds growing on fashion

    In 1997 Belgium fashion designer Martin Margiela produced his first solo exhibition, 9/4/1615 at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam. In collaboration with a microbiologist, Margiela...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • Garden furniture or a garden in your furniture?

    8 Extraordinary Greens and FurniBloom

    An artist and an architect are combining gardening and furniture design in very unexpected ways.

  • Updates from the aquaponics

    Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse

    The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Bokashi Containers

    Composting with microorganisms

    The organic waste coming from the kitchen of Mediamatic ETEN finds a special companion in its composting process: the Bokashi container.  This system uses effective microorganisms to enable low...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Megan Bishop

    Wood-Fired Clay Oven

    6
    aug 2015
    - Mediamatic Eten

    Hand-made over two days, using environmentally friendly methods and materials, the clay oven stands as a central feature of the Mediamatic ETEN restaurant.

  • Explosive advertisement

    Nuclear mushrooms are inspiring creative graphic design

    "An unwashed vegetable can become a deadly weapon" is the slogan used for this campaign of Elder developed by the advertising agency AW Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Caracas. Playing a bit more with...

  • Mediamatic 2020

    Hier vind je een overzicht van de hoogetpunten van ons programma in 2020, klik hier voor  een compleet overzicht van ons 2020 programma of een overzicht van met wie we dit jaar werkten . 2020 was...

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • If you can't beat it, eat it!

    What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

    Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...

  • Matango

    The Vegetable Monster; The Fungus of Terror!

    An amazing Japanese movie from 1963, also called the Attack of the Mushroom People. Over the years, this movie has apparently developed something of a cult audience mainly in the Japanese-American...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

  • Pee for plants: how to

    An introduction to the use of urine as fertiliser

    If you have ever wondered whether and how you can use your own urine to grow luxuriant plants and healthy veggies, here you can find some useful pieces of information on methods and timing for...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Bokashi: How to

    Bokashi introduction

    At the back of our kitchen you will see we have our big green bokashi bins which we use for the kitchen and communal lunches. Here you will find a more detailed introduction to the process and use...

  • Growing a building out of living mushrooms

    Interesting info from the blog Stataspore

    In the Echo Park neighborhood of L.A. there's a unique non-profit community called Machine Project investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food. American...

  • Miktor & Molf workshop

    Grafkist voor je geliefde

    Samen met de nabestaanden werken Miktor & Molf aan een grafkist die een ode is aan de overledene. Een door de nabestaanden verzameld beeldarchief van de gestorven persoon vormt het uitgangspunt.

  • Mushroom Dinner

    An experimental evening to taste the flavors of delicious dutch mushrooms....

    Here some pictures and a video documenting a lovely dinner where mushrooms took different forms and taste. Our biggest pride is certainly the home-made mushroom pasta. Not only the pasta slice ended...

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Being responsible for Bokashi

    and other useful information

    The amount of time to give to Bokashi really depends on what is happening at Mediamatic. Is the restaurant open? Is communal lunch happening? What season is it?  Being responsible for the Bokashi...

  • The Esthetic of Microscopical Science

    Are Moulds, Mushrooms and Parasites really so disgusting and unaesthetic as some people think? Let's give it a closer look...

    We already saw on this blog some interesting examples of artists and designers getting particularly inspired by these microscopical fascinating organisms. Why is that, then? Is this microcosm really...

  • Still Growing

    Living art of Dutch artist Zeger Reyers

    In 2007, Stroom Den Haag published a special edition about the dutch artist Zeger Reyers from the eyes of five established writers: Nell Donkers, Roland Groenenboom, Vincent Honoré, Philip Peters

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