week 135
Our garden is slowly coming to life since we have the lovely people from Cityplot transforming our frontyard into an urban farm. Daryl has been helping them with the design and actual transformation of the garden. Work is still in progress, pictures here..
Arne Hendriks
Join him this week for the Starvation Experiment at Mediamatic and help him and others to sublimate their hunger into XL snack mandalas, fluffy foods, salty zen gardens, non-food drawings, edible ceramics, wooden kitchenware and yes, even into lip balm.
Kees Kraakman
I bought a new roaster, a bigger one but from the same dutch quality brand 'Giesen'. Last week it arrived and now, with two roasters I am even better equiped for trainings and supplying my wholesale customers. I also installed a lot of extra temperature probes for my ongoing research in coffee roasting techniques. And for all you tea lovers out there, I hired Ieme for helping me with the air ventilation pipes which will reduce the noise and smell inside the Coöp. Step by step my coffee lab is getting into shape. Now I only want a density measure system, color meter, sample roaster, more tasting tables, artificial daylight troughout my roastery, sample storage kast, two new grinders and a new espresso machine. Slowly but sure I am working towards the best trainingslab in The Netherlands!
Topika
Last week I divided my time between design iterations for the News Console branding, product strategy for the NMM project and design iterations for a prototype of the Skinvision online platform.
On Friday I gave a quick presentation about the Open-Tv project at the Bits of Freedom offices with Vincent and Catalina.
The project is also on view in the 20th Century exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum, St. Luciënsteeg 27, Amsterdam.
Bite-Me
Food:COOP:Noord is a cooperative where members order local sustainable groceries together to create a community with better food at fair prices. Through our software you can order vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, cheese and so on and pick it up on Wednesdays 16.30-18.30 at the Open Coop.
Everything is packed and organized by the members, incl. you, so the FoodCOOP is for everyone who likes to actively participate in getting better food.
You can become a member at https://order.foodcoop.nl/open-adam-noord/f/login/signup
DUS
During his visit to the Rijksmuseum, the 3D Print Canal House was presented to U.S. president Obama by Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, alongside Prime Minister Rutte and Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes.
They also designed a special ‘kids’ version of the 3D Print Canal House that consist of no less than 219 unique Bricks. Eleven 3D Hubs communities joined forces to 3D print the entire miniature canal house, which stands over five feet tall!
Partizan Public
http://www.4en5meiamsterdam.nl/55756/nl/amsterdams-4-en-5-mei-programma-2014-druk-bezocht
Marije van Woerden One of her International Film Festival Rotterdam photos is used by the Groene Amsterdammer n an article. They made a one time (printed) edition called 'De Groene Rotterdammer' in cooperation with the Filmfestival.
http://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-tweede-renaissance-zal-in-europa-plaatsvinden
dmau - journeyed through Amsterdam and made a photographic essay tracing what remains of the Aldo van Eyck playgrounds.
Sujata has spent the last month on her artist’s residency at the Waag Society, awarded by ICT Art Connect (EU funded) to see what art can reveal about opaque technologies. Her project is about data in healthcare, seen from a rather different perspective than in her day job (as analyst in the migration of AMC & VUmc data from an old to a new EHR). So she is occupied with health records not only in her waking but also in her dream state. The essence of the work is augmenting the electronic health record to really be about the person and their health, instead of only being a protocol- and process-driven picture of a patient and their illnesses.
