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  • Where Art meets Life Sciences

    Friday evening I attended a lecture organized by the Waag Society and hosted by Artis in the beautiful Flamingo room. Adam Zaretsky is a bio-artist and since years is working on the ethical and...
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  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • 6 ways Mushrooms can save the World

    Paul Stamets amazing speech at the TED conference

    Growing mushroom might be the best thing we can do to save the environment. In this inspiring speech, Paul Stamets briefly explain his work and research on mushroom, or better mycelium and his...
  • Old Information Barbara Revelli

    Sustainable materials

    Every first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but...

  • "Water is a cycle like everything in nature and…

    On June 12th young water maverick and bioprocess engineer Bernelle Verster gave an inspiring talk at Mediamatics Biotalk ; a monthly lecture series that invites artists and designers to present and...

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • Fluorescent Nature

    Seven new mushroom species glowing in the dark!

    Mycologists estimate there are hundreds of species still not identified. And the mystery and fascination hiding behind mushrooms are unlimited. These newly discovered glowing toadstools might help...

  • Terrorism gives power

    to the Government...

    On Wednesday the 9th of February, a benefit was held for Steve Kurtz, the artist from the Critical Art Ensemble who was arrested under suspicion of bioterrorism. He had a lab in his house where he...

  • Growing Jewelry

    Have you ever thought you might find mycelium around your neck!?

    Mycelium Pendant is a jewellery piece developed by Australian-based designer Elliat Rich . Her work is focused on finding sustainable design solution that emphasize the "poetry of humble pleasure".
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Geodesic dome research

    Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.

    Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.

  • Growing a building out of living mushrooms

    Interesting info from the blog Stataspore

    In the Echo Park neighborhood of L.A. there's a unique non-profit community called Machine Project investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food. American...

  • The mycelium inspiration

    On the website Everyone Forever has published the work of Ryan Alexander a graphic designer working, at least in this series, with the programming open source Processing

  • Farm Fountain, an unusual aquaponics system

    Art and science together for a better way of life

    Farm Fountain is a small ecosystem that allows you to have fresh food grown right at home.

  • Harvest time

    should i wait or can i already harvest ??

    The well-known dilemma of harvest-time executed in a case-study of the generic cucumber. You are eager to taste your well-earned fruits, but also reckon they still grow bigger and become more...

  • Report: a visit to CNC

    One of the largest mushroom substrate producers in the world

    What brings horse manure, an R&D director, a designer and a construction graduate together? That’s right, mushroom growing! A tour of the facilities of CNC, the largest (indoor) mushroom substrate...

  • Pure Culture

    Philip Ross is an inspiring american artist that works with living organisms as means of his artistic work. In a very controlled environment, Ross manipulates, nurtures and transforms a variety of...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...

  • Urban Eden, human error

    Bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds

    Allison Kudla's project based on the formation of a living and growing biological material via its collaboration with an engineering mechanism.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Building a geodesic dome

    My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic

    Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.

  • Spinoza ontmoet Ronald McDonald

    Vrijheid van Meningsuiting versus Merkenrecht in de Publieke Ruimte

    Quirijn Meijnen, advocaat gespecialiseerd in merkenrecht, schreef over onze Spinoza posteractie op zijn blog: ‘Spinoza en de grenzen aan de bescherming van een bekend merk’ . Hij gaat hier onder...

  • Biomodd

    Symbiosis between biological and electronic systems

    Nature and technology are not juxtaposed but rather fused into imaginative hybrid installations.

  • Photoelectric bites

    Temporary photoElectric Digestopians Worklab Series

    Edible Solarcells

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Nothing tastes better than fungus

    A Sausage experiment with Brandt&Levie

    Did you know that the taste of a sausage is determined by its surroundings? Together with Brandt&Levie we have started a new, four-week-long experiment of sausage fermentation. 7 Organizations are...

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