Opencall Mycelium Mandy den Elzen

Proposal animal-friendly alternative fur with Mycelium.

By experimenting with help from Mycelium experts to let it grow to a fluffy material with similar properties to animal fur.

Besides an animal friendly alternative to traditional fur, mycelium offers
larger sizes fur than the skin surface of animals. Growing this organic
fur from mushroom in a laboratory does not require or
encourage the breeding of animals in a factory farm, unlike real fur.

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Mycelium fur by Mandy den Elzen - Developping an animal-friendly alternative fur with Mycelium.

This experiment will provide clarity, test and validate the feasibility of
creating mycelium as an alternative to (animal) fur.