Kampagnengruppe matton
= semi-autarkic applied architectural thinking
= trendy pragmatism
2007 3rd Architecture Biennale Rotterdam + WIMBY!
2007 Galerie AEDES, Berlin
2007 Vorauswahl IFG Ulm «Designing politics – The politics of design». Das Programm zählt zu den weltweit am höchsten dotierten Ausschreibungen für Gestalter. Für «Die KlimaMaschine. Surviving the Suburb». Städteplanerisch-künstlerisches Forschungs-/Installationsprojekt, zu realisieren in Rotterdam, Maastricht, Freiburg und Berlin.
2007 Aliens im Orbit. Mit raumlaborberlin. ORBIT IN DER WÜSTE - ORBIT IM EIS im Freiburger Rieselfeld. Theater Freiburg.
2007 Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg, Realisierung der Klimaatmachine auf der Hamburger Elbinsel
2007 Kampagne Öko-Casino, Freiburg
2006 Kampagne Surviving the
Suburb. A book on Siedlungsleben, escape and semi-autarkic life.
To be edited by Martin Luce, Ton Matton and Wim Timmermans with support of Alterra
research institute at Wageningen University.
2006 Kampagne Harvest Festival for WIMBY! Rotterdam-Hoogvliet International Building Exhibition.
Invited by Crimson Architectural Historians. Kunstenaar en stedenbouwkundige Ton Matton is opnieuw een samenwerking aangegaan met WiMBY!. en heeft Hoogvliet uitgekozen als locatie voor een nieuw project: de Klimaatmachine. Directe aanleiding voor dit experiment zijn de klimaatveranderingen die plaatsvinden op aarde.
2006 Kampagne Eenvoud.
A concept on transferring an east-german lonesome semi-autarkic one-family house with
lifetime telephone consultant into a NL vinex. Experimental Building Exhibition
Almere, Netherlands.
2006 Kampagne Green:
selling 100 Watts of green energy (enough to to watch 1 football match). An
artistic expertise on behalf of Rijksbouwmeester of The Netherlands.
2006 Kampagne Dans der Turbines
(with Albert Jansen), 2nd prize at competition Windscape, An
Ideas Competition Envisioning Renewable Energy for Cape Cod, by Boston Society
of Architects, U.S.A.
2006 Martin Luce, Rafal Wamka and Jussi Hecker join matton.
Restructuring and new ideas to come. An additional dependance is founded in
Berlin.
2007 Designing Politics, IFG Ulm, Teilnehmer
2006 Power Point,
meating point for students to load their mobile phone, mp3 player or laptop,
commissioned by CBK Dordrecht.
2005 Guest Professor Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Projects Surviving the
Suburb and Huehnerschrank.
2005 Suburban Ark
installation which contains 2 water cookers, 2 electric tooth brushes, 2 toasters,
2 ...... and a composting toilet, a wood-stove, 16 apple-trees, a vegetable
garden and a windmill. Shown on the International Architecture Bienale Rotterdam,
grant from Dutch Art Foundation.
2005 Dans
der Turbines a road movie through new dutch windmill landscapes,
commissioned by Novem, ministery of economics.
2005 Flexpek, flexible
interior spaces for an office with mobile workers, commissioned by Laagland
Advies.
2005 Lobau - Wien,
waiting for nature to become convenient, installation to research the effects
of urban influences in the nature preserve of the Lobau, 100 m2 of everlasting
rain, 100 m2 of light, 100 m2 of eternal exhaust gases. In cooperation with
with feld72 architects, commissioned by MA49 Forstamt der Stadt Wien.
2005 Survival Jackets Fashionshow,
shows fashion wich includes a secret shop in the lining. With one of the jackets
you can start a job in the informal economy; selling e.g. home made coockies,
eggs from the chicken, vegetables from your allotmentgarden, the fish from a
big haul, commissioned by Wimby, Rotterdam Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet,
2005 Gedächtnisbaum,
proposal to monumantalize Nature in the shrinking cities (Leipzig, Schwerin)
of Eastern Germany.
2004 Global nature reacts on
global heating. A subtropical climate in the park Les Halles, Paris,
is created by using city heat to make a dry, hot climate. Advice for the competitian-entrance
of OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture - for les Halles, Paris
2004 Guest Professor Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, projects
on Autobahn und Natur,
Kuechengespraeche
2004 Noabur Twente Zeegplaats installation for creating regional participation to come up with the global
Village, commissioned by SKOR & Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
2004 Arboretum
Assisie proposal to combine a nursery for mental-disseased people
with an Arboretum, a beautiful place to escape the real life stress. Commissioned
by Prisma Biezenmortel (NL)
2003 Guest Professor Hochschule für bildende Künste
Hamburg. Projects on Flüchtlingslager and windmills.
2003 Human
Vector exhibition with seven maps of Rotterdam drawn as a landscape
site, with mountains, meadows, lakes and forests. The maps are remarking the
density and position of shells, darfs, spiders, grasshoppers, deafs, figs and
"dens leepelblad"- creatures that were able to find an ecological space of habit
in the human cities. Places as in an archaic landscapes like the Grand Canyon.
Places in the shadows of the skyscrapers, on their roofs or in the dust of highways.
2003 Ex-Nature;
entrance of the Botanical Garden at Utrecht University, comissioned by Utrecht
University.
2002/2003 Mobile
Nature Preserve
2002 Stadssafari
with four Landrovers, looking for naure inside the Hagues, commissioned by Stroom,
the Hague.
2000/2002 Praja
de Brás, São Paulo. 1 2
3 Three strategies to remake the urban space to a public area, Commissioned
by Arte/Cidade SP Brasil.
2002 Jungle
Shower, bathroom inside sewage-field realised in Werkstatt Wendorf
2001 Blue
Lagoon, concept for an autonomous watersystem in a building in the IJ-lake,
Amsterdam. Commissioned by MVRDV.
2001 Werkstatt
Wendorf, renovation of a deserted school in Wendorf, eastern Germany,
and transformation into a hotel for sabbatical leave. Commissioned by Sabbatical
Cells BVi.o, grant from the Dutch Foundation of visual arts.
2001 Free-range Kitchen can be placed
foot-loose. No cables, no sewage pipes, but a filtration field with vegetation
to recycle the waste water. A huge ice-cube provides the cold in the refrigerator.
Placed in the Milan Droog design Exhibition, in cooperation with Schie 2.0.
Sink
Fridge
2001 Composting
Toilet, a vertical compost- toilet to place on the first floor. The
composting-container will be on living-room level. Self-proposed project, in
cooperation with Atelier van Lieshout.
2000 Free-range
Headquarters, the new office is a self-sufficient mobile caravan, supplied
with composttoilet, kitchen with vegetation-sewage filter, solarpanels, mobile
phone, portable computer and internetconnection. It can be moved 40 km per hour.
2000 6,500,000 Dwellings,
exhibition for Rotterdam Cultural Capital 2001 about 100 years of housing history
in the Netherlands. Commissioned by dS+V.
2000 the
Kentucky Coffee Bar in my Backyard, research on the Villa-district in
Hilversum, exposed in a espresso-bar with Kentucky Worms to recycling the coffee-waste.
Commissioned by Dudok Architectural centre,
2000 Greetings from phoenix, Kwazulu
. Workshop about the African Central Buisiness District, Durban South Africa
1999 'VRIJ NEDERLAND',
proposal for combining dwellings with nature and ecological agriculture. Research
for new urban strategies. Comissioned by: RPD dutch ministery of planning /
SEV.
1999 Learning from Berkel
en Rodenrijs is an urbanproject focused on the rules for developing
3 locations along the main street. Comissioned by: Vinex-projectbureau Berkel
en Rodenrijs.
1999 The Hague Central Station
connects the two stations CS and HS by a 1500 meter platform. All transport
systems, from tram to HST stop along this platform. A Tapis Roulant wich contains
a Coffee Bar reduces the time to transfer back to 15 minutes. Location Hoog
Hage, commissioned by city council The Hague.
1999 Snackloket
IJburg is like a McDonalds for birds. The ecological advice based on the food-pyramide
delivers the conditions for landscape design of the Island IJburg, Amsterdam.
Commissioned by Architecten Cie.
1998 The
Autonomous House, a strategy to create new nature by allowing farmers
to sell self-sufficient dwellings on there fields. Commissioned by: AIR southbound
(Architecture International Rotterdam).
1998 Silence versus Noise,
sound-proof-buildings in Waalsprong. Three different strategies against noise
polution; stay back, seek shelter and isolate, leads to an intense programme
along the main street. Commissioned by City of Nijmegen.
1998 Hoekse Lijnen,
analysis on postcards of the Hoeksche Waard presented in both statistics and
images. Commissioned by AIR southbound.
1998 The Vinex-biotope,
advice in Ypenburg 10 (a so called 'vinex' suburb) based upon sustainability
and environmental issues. Commissioned by Amvest project development, co-operation
with MVRDV.
1997 Free-range Urban
Planning in Vijfhuizen, design for a rural suburb of 250 dwellings
with a minimised infrastructure in favour of optimised garden space. Commissioned
by City of Haarlemmermeer.
1997 High Technology, Deep
Ecology, vision for the future of the Rotterdam neighbourhood Blijdorp
based on sustainable technological development. Commissioned by DTO and the
city of Rotterdam.
1997 Schie Power,
the future of the Netherlands in 2030 based on responsible consumption, commissioned
by RPD (spatial planning department).
1997 Chameleon-housing
in Achterveld, the city of IJsselstein, 4 working/living houses disguised into
the neighbourhood. Commissioned by the city of IJsselstein.
1997
1996 Toilet automatic,
water saving toilets in the Delta Expo on the island of Neeltje Jans, commissioned
by RijksWaterstaat.
1996 Minesite Zolder,
scenario for sustainable redevelopment of the former mines in the city of Zolder
in Belgium. Commissioned by the office Mens en Ruimte, Brussels.