Mycelium products
Mycelium, mushrooms, and more...
Mycelium based materials can someday replace plastic. Artists, designers, mycologists, and organizations are working with mycelium based materials, growing their own mushrooms, and exploring this new territory.
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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 environment by buying a new plant, we also have a negative impact by purchasing the plant in a plastic…
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By creating a biodegradable pot we could maybe reduce the carbon footprint of the pot and reduce pollution. A biodegradable material made with mycelium and plant residues like straw can also nourish the soil when it decomposes. Therefore, we aimed to create a 100% biodegradable plant pot with mycelium. Together with our Clean Lab colleagues, we brainstormed on some ideas around biodegradable plant pots. Growing biodegradable materials with mycelium is reasonably simple and straightforward.
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The Creatures
The Beauty of Nature
I am surrounded by beautiful creatures. As soon as you can open your eyes you will discover the beauty!
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I am surrounded by beautiful creatures. As soon as you can open your eyes you will discover the beauty!
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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 possibilities & also the limits are. So I decided to create some experiments with mycelium just to get to…
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Broken Glass & Mycelium Is it possible for me to combine glass and mycelium? My second object I found was just a broken glass jar. I decided to replace the missing parts of the glass with mycelium to create a small little lamp. If you wanna have some stronger light, you can turn it the way you get direct light from the light bulb, if you wanna have more dimmed light, you can just turn it the other way around so you can enjoy the indirect light. Dried Herbs & Mycelium My first lamp…
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Chimera Furniture
Mycelium Experiments
What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life?
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A few weeks ago, we found in front of the CleanLab, a broken metal chair that was going to be thrown away. We decided to find a way to make it desirable again with a mycelium enhancement. This first prototype explores how we can fix and extend the life of broken furniture. After we painted the chair, the idea was to create a new seat out of mycelium. To give strength to the material, we used jute fabric to create a "Pillow" of living material. We filled the "pillow" with a Hemp-based…
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Hybrid Material
Mycelium Experiments
Explore the potential of living material through a series of diverse experiments.
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Many designers and artists are interested in the research and applications of mycelium. The versatility of the material brings a lot of possibilities in a large variety of fields. From building systems to sustainable packaging, there is still a lot to discover about living materials. In the Cleanlab of Mediamatic, we are researching and exploring these possibilities. For the first experiment, we were interested in combining mycelium with plaster in order to create a hybrid material. Since…
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The trials continue
How to build a Mycelium Pigeon Tower #3
After about a week and half of experimenting we have found some results.
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We learned that when we use bins as a mould for the material the bottom can get clogged with moisture and get acidic. So we should flip the bins every 3 days. Also, most of the tests had some green mould on them. We tried to cut away all that we could see, unfortunately on some spots, it came back. The samples that were too mouldy we have had to throw away, the others we put outside to dry out on the surface, while on the bottom the mycelium can continue to grow. By: Nehis Osagie
