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Proposal by: Lena Trost
(Digital) Glass Tasting
Project proposal: How glass becomes odour
My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
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Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer
When My Time Comes
Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game
How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
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Proposal by: Margherita Falqui
Liquid Maquis
Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses
Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...
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Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo
Chili Pepper Pleasure
Project proposal: A hedonistic experience
Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
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Proposal by: Nina Anin
Wind Airwave transmission
Project Proposal: Sustainable radio show
WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
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Proposal by: Mario Mimoso
Floating Havens
Project Proposal: Regenerating city life
Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
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Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez
Oak Tales
Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes
Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...
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Proposal by: Bas Huijbers
Green Office
Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs
Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
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Proposal by: Racha Tarazi
My Dinner
Project Proposal: Digesting emotions
My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...
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Proposal by: Anonymous
Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…
Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen
Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...
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Proposal by: Lucie Majerus
Colour-Smells of Amsterdam
Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs
As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
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Proposal by: Krisztina Czika
What's left to capture?
Project Proposal: Underwater journey
'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...
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Proposal by: Maaike Anne Stevens
Bipolaris
Project proposal: Essay film
Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...
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Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot
Piss Soap
Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Proposal by: Mariko Hori
Archive something we don't know yet
Project Proposal: Understanding water conditions through paper making
This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.
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Proposal by: Thom van Hoek
Object Permanence
Project proposal: Levend sculptuur
Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...
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Proposal by: Sieta van Horck
Bodies of Land
Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land
Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...
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Proposal by: Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca
Inclusive Patching.
Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability
It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...
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Sieta van Horck
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Groente? Bitter! Als kind at ik liever…
Een gesprek met onze voormalig head chef Gino Marengo
Met een jagende opa die het wild direct uit het bos plukte, kwam Gino al van jongs af aan in contact met dieren, verse ingrediënten en rijke gerechten. Hij at alles van hert en leguaaneieren tot...
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2022 Iliana Metaxa
Getting intimate through stitches
Meet Desirée Hammen
Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.
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2022 Iliana Metaxa
Stitches, Threads and Needles
Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery
From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
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February '22 - May '22
Andrea Valdivia
Photography Assistant
My name is Andrea, and I am a 21-year-old Peruvian who joined Mediamatic as a photography intern (Feb - May 2022). I was born in Lima, Peru, but moved abroad three years ago for my studies...
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Beftival Photo Gallery
A collection of photos from Beftival