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Japanese Knotweed Season 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Rethinking Japanese Knotweed Through Food
- Japanese Knotweed Gastronomical Summit 202431May 2024Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for being considered a exotic invasive. This year's season explores the...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '24
Japanese Knotweed Program
upcoming events
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season. Reserve your tickets here ! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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Disclaimer: I’m nor a doctor or a nutritionist Laura Sanz Rosal
The 5 Holy Ingredients of The Dinner of the Damned
Explore the flavors of our inverted pentagram - Neo Futurist Dinner 16
The inverted pentagram, a symbol of the dark, the macabre, the unexpected, perhaps also a symbol of the Dinner of the Damned ? In this article I introduce you to the 5 Holy duos of this experience in...
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The Dinner of the Damned (Neo Futurist Dinner 16) – with Alice Héron and Martin Butler Laura Sanz Rosal
Where the damned come together
Getting to know Alice Héron and Martin Butler, an interview by Laura Sanz Rosal
Welcome to The Dinner of the Damned , a macabre feast where the dark souls come together. In this interview we introduce you to Alice Herón and Martin Butler , the multidisciplinary artists behind...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Activities
Our 2023 Japanese Knotweed Festival activities.
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Exhibitions
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Counter Burek Shop
14Apr 2023- with Krater15Apr 2023While governments fight the war on knotweed with prevention and eradication strategies, The Under the Counter Burek Shop promotes the culinary use of this abundant plant instead. Since it is illegal...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freedom Meal
- love your guest5May 2023Artists Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkey), Alaa Abu Asad (Palestine/Netherlands) and Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Netherlands) have put together a special Freedom Meal at Mediamatic. Join us and be part of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Duizendknoop Kookshow
30Apr 2023- met Pauline Wiersema7May 2023Gratis groente! Altijd al willen leren hoe je thuis met Japanse duizendknoop kunt koken? 'De Duizendknoop Kookshow', gepresenteerd door social practice kunstenaar Pauline Wiersema gaat in...
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The green gold
Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday
After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Japanese Knotweed Program
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed Festival. Reserve your tickets here *! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Festival
Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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Proposal by: Yorke Mulder-Bhangoo
Krachtvoer
Project Proposal: Eten wat je eten eet.
Als je uit het treinraam kijkt naar het prachtige platte Nederlandse landschap zie je, gras, mais, bieten en af en toe tarwe. Allemaal veevoer. We produceren op het schaarse Nederlandse landbouwgrond...
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Proposal by: Miku Sato
Book and Fire
Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism
Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
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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...
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Proposal by: Paolo Bosca
Food Utopias
Project Proposal: A different geography of taste
Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy. We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world...
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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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Exhibition Microlab
Serres Séparées at Dutch Design Week
17Oct 2021- We are nominated for the Dutch Design Awards!24Oct 2021The Serres Séparées project is nominated for a Dutch Design Award. During Dutch Design Week 2021 we will join in an exhibition together with all nominees at Microlab in Eindhoven.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021
Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!
procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit
You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...
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Catholic saint
Hildegard von Bingen
Mediaeval Influencer who Hated Lettuce
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design Solutions
For implementing greenhouse dining in the restaurant
For the use of the Serres in the restaurant we are constantly making adjustments. Not only to the greenhouses themselves, but also to the way we carry out our service. What problems do we encounter?
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
La Cocina Presents: Staging a Banquet
- Lecture by Tina Harris31Oct 2020Like plants and people, recipes travel all over the world. They adapt to, but also influence, the context and ingredients available. This event alludes to the importance of reflecting on the effects...
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The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history
Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...