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And then there was... mycelium

In this post I will share how I made my first products from mycelium in the Mediamatic Clean Lab.

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Mycelium Pigeon Towers

Collection of Design Research Questions

Is mycelium waste from the oyster mushroom industry an effective material to build with? Can we build structures to house Amsterdams feral pigeons? Do pigeons accept a mycelium structure as a place...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

Defining the Shape

Square and Round

Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
Clean Lab

Credits

Thank you!

We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.
Structure

We are building a Pigeon Tower #4

Does form follow function or should the function follow the form? Does any of this even matter and should we just think if it works it works?
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

Jute

June '20 – Pigeon Tower 02

We put the remains of the collapsed tower from the first experiment in a long burlap tube. Burlap is a biodegradable textile, and provides structure and nourishment for the mycelium. We rolled up the...
Projecten
Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier

Commence Operation

We are building a Pigeon Tower #2

During the first building a mycelium pigeon tower workshop we had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, there is nothing left to show for all the hard work except pictures and videos. Now it...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks

Babel

June '20 – Pigeon Tower 01

The first tower of mycelial waste. Living material. We mainly wanted to start. With a lot of enthusiasm but little precision or consultation. The uneven blocks were stacked intuitively. We filled the...
Bibliography

Here you find a collection of books and images used as sources for the Myco-Assemblage

Shelter – Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton (1973)
Mediamatic Biotoop

Smelling Like A Beast

with Frank Bloem

In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
What's growing on #1

Adventures of a curious CleanLab intern

In this series I will share some of the interesting and fun things that I do and come across during my time as the CleanLab intern at Mediamatic. During this time I will mostly keep myself busy with...
Mediamatic Biotoop

Sculpting Textiles

with Margherita Soldati

How can you use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in shapes, textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to manipulating...
Gumfusion

Material ex-spearmints.

Met uitzondering van bubbelgums hebben de meeste kauwgoms een harde kern of gombasis (sommigen hebben binnenin nog een vloeibare smaakstof) en zijn omhult door een glanzend suikerlaagje. De gum...
The Trials Continue

We are building a Pigeon Tower #3

After about a week and half of experimenting we have found some results.
Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie

Ins & Outs / Do's & Dont's

We are building a Pigeon Tower #1

In this blog series we will share the findings we have discovered after every workshop. There will be many questions found here regarding the process of building the tower both from us and those who...
Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

Cartier

Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
Apparatuur

In het Clean Lab hebben we meerdere bijzondere apparaten die gebruikt worden binnen verschillende niches. We hebben een Braumeister en Grainfather om bier te brouwen. Een grote snelkookpan voor...
Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier

Hybrid Material

Mycelium Experiments

Explore the potential of living material through a series of diverse experiments.
Enlighted Chimeras

Mycelium Experiments

Upcycling broken found objects with mycelium to create something new and interesting. When I started my internship in the CleanLab of Mediamatic I had no idea how the mycelium behaves, what the...
Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier

Chimera Furniture

Mycelium Experiments

What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life?
Mediamatic Biotoop

Composing Fragrance

with Frank Bloem

In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt

The Power of Eight

From Octaves to Da Vinci

After the square and round tower try-out, we tried to build in an Octagonal shape. Finally we had succes! Apart from it being the right shape to keep the bricks together, the number 8 also became an...
Designing mycelium plant pots

While working with mycelium at Mediamatic we thought about ways to combine mycelium with plants. We chose to experiment on making biodegradable plant pots. When making a positive impact on the...
History

The reason for creating the Clean Lab at our Dijksgracht location was primarily to create a lab space large enough and suitable for the growing tide of artists wanting to expand their work into...

created Nehis Osagie modified Anne Lakeman

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