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Sep 23, 20191 min read
Sustainable Technology for Africa 2019 The Kigali Bootcamp Experience
Perhaps one of the most vibrant editions of the Sustainable Technology for Africa Competition Series for now. Not in the least thanks to...
Aug 31, 20191 min read
Bacterioglyphs
A minor leak in CCB#5 has been observed by Freek in september, which at first seemed to be closing itself. The amount of liquid lost...
Aug 22, 20191 min read
CCB#5 | First Harvest Ready
The first harvest of CCB#5 ready for drying! I’ve been doing some googling to find out how large the biggest scoby ever made was... found...
Jul 30, 20191 min read
Circular with Cellulose- Expo Valette
The 2019 edition of this collective summer exhibition set stage for the papur worx [2017-2019]. Also ‘Lumiere’ & ‘Ritmo’ by Armando...
Jun 29, 20191 min read
Flora and the Water Warriors - Expo
Rushing to get ready for the vernissage of Flora & the Water Warriors' with Bart Ramakers & William Sweetlove. With forewords of Dirk...
Jun 19, 20191 min read
The Dogue - The Making Of
World premiere for 100% sustainable printing on stable PAPUR canvas. A printer with UV-cured, solvent-free ink was used (Milo Profi -...
Jun 9, 20191 min read
Omics & the Hospital of the Future
A sustainable health care shall be preventive. It is our own body that delivers the basic materials (samples) for a preventive medicine...
Apr 29, 20191 min read
War! (in bioreactor trays)
An ‘open’ set up with six black trays of de Verbeke CCB’s #2 & #3 in spring got infected by alien fungi, which happily sporulated all on...
Mar 19, 20191 min read
African Diaspora Bootcamp 2019 - Yet Another League of Sustainable Startups
Thank you Thomas More College for an inspiring venue and Program Contribution to teach the Sustainable Technology For Africa Bootcamp by...
Dec 22, 20181 min read
PAPUR | Painters Canvas
When scobies are mounted on cheescloth to dry, cloth & scoby strongly adhere to each other. The adhesion can be enhanced by treating the...
Nov 23, 20182 min read
Uganda Experience & Bootcamp: Sustainable Technology for Africa
This 2018 trip by OVO investors & Sr coaches plus Jr coaches from Thomas More College to equatorial Africa is an astonishing experience -...
Nov 15, 20181 min read
Symbolic Abstraction & Realism
This is the most recent collaboration with Stef De Belder. For his retrospective exhibition in ‘t Getouw, Mol, Belgium, he wrote poetry,...
Oct 18, 20181 min read
The Fish
Sometimes the growth & drying of scobies gives unexpected resemblances. Like the fish. The few strands of yeast created a dark eye and...
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Fusain-Fusain! Expo Valette 2018
The old-school charcoal nudes & portraits of the nillies revisited. By taking them in the digital sphere and giving them a new life in...
Jul 12, 20181 min read
ClimateLaunchpad BeNeLux 2018 @GreenVille
Budget restrictions forced Belgium & The Netherlands to join forces this year. Then and again, it isn’t fair to have two campaigns for...
Mar 31, 20181 min read
Tray
Just took my latest kombucha scoby from the 3D drying stand. I dried it with the upper (the dry) side outward and this surface evolved to...
Mar 16, 20181 min read
Building Sustainable Businesses in the First ST4A Diaspora Bootcamp
What a fantastic experience! Training ten Belgo-African Diaspora teams for VITO and Ondernemers voor Ondernemers (OVO). There is a...
Mar 15, 20181 min read
Preserving PAPUR
Preserving PAPUR sheets.
Feb 5, 20181 min read
EARTH ACT!ON
The first transfer to thin bleached PAPUR, out of CCB#1. Plus coat of acrylic medium. Works well, feels a bit ‘plastic’, synthetic.
Jan 15, 20181 min read
Crystals of life | SIPTRIN Ends
Out of one of the aquariums came a most beautifully hibernating scoby. The slow drying had allowed crystals to grow inside and...
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