The Green Train with European Sleeper
The Green Train is an interdisciplinary contemporary art program designed to deepen public awareness of, and engagement with, European landscapes. It highlights the environmental advantages of train travel, using one of Europe’s most iconic international train lines as its conceptual foundation and starting point.
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The project brings together Nina Backman’s Silence Project and her environmental grassroots initiative A Million Trees to Finland, with European Sleeper and a network of environmental partners such as Life Terra, Thinking Forest Foundation, Mediamatic, Welna Estate, The Finnish Enviromental Institute (Syke), The Finnland-Institut in Berlin to create a unique, art-driven international journey. At its heart, The Green Train is a simple idea: travel more slowly, listen more deeply, and act more boldly for the planet by living more ecologically – and by planting trees. The Green Train becomes a moving venue for reflection, conversation, and creativity, with tree planting along the route and a dedicated “Tree Wagon” inside the train, gifted to all traveling passengers. This collaboration blends sustainable transport, ecological restoration, and cultural engagement into a single experience — one that connects people to landscapes, to communities, and to the quiet urgency of climate action.
Aquaponics - Mediamatic has their own urban agriculture system in the form of an Aquaponics greenhouse at the Biotoop Dijkspark, near Amsterdam Central station. Aquaponics is a way to sustainably produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. Plants and fish are cultivated together. The fish excrete ammonia which gets transformed by bacteria into nitrate. The nitrate serves as fertilizer for the plants. Anisa Xhomaqi
Program
- 10:00–12:00: Seedling event at Mediamatic
400 seedlings. You can take this seedlings for free! - 12:30–13:30: Join us for a bowl of warm soup.
Information
The event takes place in our Tuinkamer & Hydroponics Greenhouse. The event will be filmed by ARTE tv.
Wednesday 22nd October
10:00 - 14:00
For questions, please send an email to workshop@mediamatic.nl.
Aquaponics - Mediamatic has their own urban agriculture system in the form of an Aquaponics greenhouse at the Biotoop Dijkspark, near Amsterdam Central station. Aquaponics is a way to sustainably produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space. Plants and fish are cultivated together. The fish excrete ammonia which gets transformed by bacteria into nitrate. The nitrate serves as fertilizer for the plants. Anisa Xhomaqi
Program
- 10:00–12:00: Seedling event at Mediamatic
400 seedlings. You can take this seedlings for free! - 12:30–13:30: Join us for a bowl of warm soup.
