Mycelium fungus, Fusarium euwallaceae. Macro. Background

Ok team!

We have one more presentation, and then I’d love to hear some of your thoughts on the art projects that were listed last week.

Screening:

Fungi’s Resilience and Intelligence

Some resources:

Mycelium Materials: The Future of Growing our Home

Mushroom leather? The future of fashion is closer than you think.

Current State and Future Prospects of Pure Mycelium Materials
by Simon Vandelook1, Elise Elsacker1,2,3, Aurélie Van Wylick1,2, Lars De Laet2 and Eveline Peeters1*

 video on using mycelium in product development

See Inside the Lab Growing Mushroom Leather | Freethink*

Optional: It’s on Netflix.

Fantastic Fungi – features Paul Stamet and beyond. (It has some nice time lapses

Homework:

I know it feels as if we just finished the midterm but I want you to have time to think about it over break. The deets for your final technical paper are below.

  1. Write down ideas (an informal proposal) for your final paper which we will discuss in class. Please address these questions:
  • What problem are you trying to solve?
  • What is a possible approach/solution towards solving the problem?