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Media
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Openings, conversations with host families, and how a bee of 1 centimetre becomes a sculpture a metre tall. All videos are hosted on our own server, with no tracking.
In brief
Fifteen short videos.
Half-minute animations and short excerpts from conversations. Press the button to play. Videos with sound only start when you ask for them.
What is RefuBees?
100 to 300 metres
What is a BeeTotem?
Adopt a bee
Host on the Palmgracht
Caring for the totem together
The good city
Wild bee or honey bee?
Poison-free greenery
The mignonette yellow-face bee
Water, an open question
From museum bee to totem
Timeline 2011 to 2025
Become a host family
Symposium at De Balie
The children wanted it – the teachers wanted it – the university wanted it – the Salzburg Museum wanted it – the local community wanted it – the monastery…
After the presentation at the AMS conference ‘Reinventing the City’, a student came up to me...
Evaluation conversation with hosts Marleen and Hermingard about the BeeTotem project on the Admiralengracht…
De Balie is a prominent platform for discussions about art, culture and politics in Amsterdam.
Videography Jelle Baars Interview…
Videography Frank Theys Opening…
The Dutch natural history museum Naturalis in Leiden has generously provided us with the original specimens of the 104 wild bee species that occur in Amsterdam…
Videography Sjaak Hartog Assembling the 3D…
Videography Frank Theys Bee printing 3D…
Videography Frank Theys 3D structure printing HB3D.
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