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  • Plants and Saline Water

    Management Strategies Inspired by Nature

    This post is the second in a series of articles for the Korreltje Zout project where we discuss our research into how we can grow plants in salty soil or using salty water for irrigation. In the...
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  • Plants and Saline Water: A Tale of Adaptation

    Water is essential for life, and for plants it's no different. But what happens when the water is salty? Can plants adapt? Let's dive into the world of plants and their relationship with saline water.

  • Understanding salinity units and conversions

    What are the units for salinity? Can they be converted into one another, to homologate research data?

    Salinity is the concentration of dissolved salts in water; it is a critical parameter in various fields, including oceanography, environmental science, and water quality monitoring. Salinity plays a...

  • Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics

    Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy

    As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...

  • How Amsterdam's geological history shaped its…

    The inescapable connection with the sea

    Amsterdam, the picturesque capital of the Netherlands, is a city rich in history and culture. While its iconic canals, historic architecture, and vibrant atmosphere captivate visitors, the city's...

  • People

    Get to know the team that is working on Grain of Salt. 

  • Closing the Tap

    Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption

    The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Harvesting rainwater

    Research and design for a rainwater system

    Following the research on irrigating with canal water, a more general question appeared: How to build an ecological water management system for the exterior garden and interior greenhouse aquaponics?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Full programme overview 2021

  • The Nutritional Value of Acorns

    What can acorns bring to the table?

    Acorns - the fruits of the oak tree - have a remarkable nutritional profile that have great potential health benefits

  • Tutsan

    Hypericum androsaemum

    Tutsan Hypericum androsaemum) is a member of the Hypericum genus or St. John's Wort family and its also known as Shrubby St. John's Wort . It is found growing spontaneously in the Mediterranean area...
  • Proposal by: Guy Vincent

    Nothing Wasted

    Project Proposal: Organic waste fermentation art experiment

    Nothing Wasted is a compost installation that receives organic waste from the Mediamatic restaurant, as well as from the public passing by. It is treated using the bokashi method, which ferments...
  • Proposal by: Leo Kay

    The Acid House Of Ideas

    Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

    A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
  • Proposal by: Samar Khan

    Plants as Spatial Choreographers

    Project proposal: letting plants design our living-rooms

    My guiding question is: How can plants dances form the basis of multi-species architectural design? I am currently working with the belief that plants are  dancers. This follows from observations...
  • Proposal by: Angela Kerr

    Forests of Remembrance

    Project Proposal: Could the dearly departed save the planet?

    As human beings, we honour our dead with rites, tombs and vigils, statues and cenotaphs, processions, pyres and rituals. Our instinct to respectfully bid farewell cuts across cultures, place and time.
  • Proposal by: Stephanie Pau

    Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al

    Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care

    Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world.  In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be

  • Plants

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Complete program overview 2018

  • Red bistort

    Bistorta amplexicaulis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Hermit Hut II: Ruin

    Jan '22

    ruin - n-   late Old English, "act of giving way and falling down", from Latin  ruina  "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down.” - Online dictionary of etymology 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    ijKruid

    Starting from Dijkspark, we're mapping the plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Dijkspark at any moment.
  • Proposal by: Maria Jimena Ricatti

    Post-pandemic tasting experience

    Project Proposal: Exploring sensory diversity and holistic wellbeing

    As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced some degree of smell or taste impairment in the short and long term. However, there are also people who deal with these kinds of...

  • Nature needs Heroes

    Workshops, talks and art

  • Catalogna chicory

    Cichorium intybus var. foliosum

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia . 

  • Common corn-cockle

    Agrostemma githago

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia . 

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