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  • Mushrooms out of the box

    Grow-at-home kit

    Sustainable is delicious! This company re-uses coffee grounds to produce do-it-yourself mushroom grow kits and in the meantime helps sustain urban schools and community gardens!

  • ecology
  • mushrooms
  • paddenstoelen
  • sustainability
  • Growing Materials

    Mycelium design

    Mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus, is one of those pretty invisible organism which, if put in the right condtions, reproduces itself like crazy! That's why in the last years it became one of...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • History of the Magic Mushroom

    How far the consumption of Magic Mushrooms (mushrooms containing the psychoactive substance psilocybin and psilocin) goes back in time is difficult to say. But the fore fathers of the Azteks and...

  • Some terms explained

    Mushroom, mycelium, spores, fungi

    A simple introduction and by no means comprehensive

  • Mushroom Madness

    The powerful presence of mushrooms has spread to the corners of the earth. These are a selection of some of the stranger things mushrooms have influenced.

  • 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...

  • Mycelium Theorists/Scientists

    Scientists, theorists and university work groups that are doing research into mushrooms and mycelium and anything related. No lonely links please - add a little blurb about the research when you add...

  • 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.

  • Garden furniture or a garden in your furniture?

    8 Extraordinary Greens and FurniBloom

    An artist and an architect are combining gardening and furniture design in very unexpected ways.

  • Do you push yourself beyond limits?

    Question 6/30 of Casting Doubts

    If your answer is Yes, then sow Crimson Clover in growbed no.6 If you don't think so, please sow Chervil in growbed no.6

  • Psilocybe cubensis

    The magic mushroom

    Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, golden tops, cubes, or gold caps, it...

  • Mycelium Spawn

    Artificial Mushroom Seeds

    A short guide to making and using spawn at Mediamatic

  • Are you bound to conventions?

    Question 19/30 of Casting Doubts

    If your answer is Yes, then sow Fenugreek in growbed no.19 If you don't think so, please sow Cornflower in growbed no.19

  • 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".

  • Do you live your dream?

    Question 5/30 of Casting Doubts

    If your answer is Yes, then sow Morning Glory and a hint of Flax in growbed no.5 If you don't think so, please sow Thistle in growbed no.5

  • Do you see artists as business-orientated…

    Question 18/30 of Casting Doubts

    If your answer is Yes, then sow Cauliflower in growbed no.18 If you don't think so, please sow Bloody Dock in growbed no.18

  • Fungi & Fermentation Knowledge

    Everything you want to know about species, substrates, applications and more.

    Discover more about the building blocks of bio-design, fermented foods and the wonders of the micro-cosmos! You can find all the information here.

  • Casting Doubt's Answering Card

    The tool to find out which type of artist you would have been

    Designed by artists Jasmin Moeller and Masha Ru in collaboration with Mediamatic, this answering card is your tool to answer the thirty questions about life and art of the Casting Doubts project.

  • Second Annual PUMA.Safe Sustainable Design Lecture

    Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena presented the 2011 Annual PUMA.Safe Sustainable Design Lecture

    The Annual PUMA.Safe Sustainable Design Lecture is a platform for design to be discussed in the context of social and environmental sustainability.

  • Are you feeling scared for no reason?

    Question 14/30 of Casting Doubts

    If your answer is Yes, then sow Cowcockle in growbed no.14 If you don't think so, please sow Burdock in growbed no.14

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • Seeding questions

    Experiments with sowing

    From the questions' design we smoothly moved to the experiments with the seeds and the seeding paper. We wanted to find out inside of which of the three types of rice paper (really thin one, a bit...

created Marjoleine Timmer modified Rosa Kieft

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