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  • Fungi Mutarium

    A prototype for turning plastic into edible fungi

    The mycelium of some fungi is capable of growing on and even digesting plastics. This fact triggered Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger from Livin Studio to start the research and design project...
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  • Building with Living Materials

    Architectural design with biology programme at Mediamatic

    In 2014 Mediamatic started to develop a new program that combines architecture with living materials in experimental ways. Living materials cannot only be more ecological, they offer very exiting new...

  • 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...

  • The Growing Lab

    Maurizio Montalti at Myco Design Lab Exposition

    By looking at the design discipline as one that analyses, creates and leads the profound transformations characterising the contemporary time we live in, “The Growing Lab” aims to embody a suggestion...

  • Studio Broed

    Rosalie Bak and Marieke Broertjes at Myco Design Lab Exposition

    Rosalie Bak and Marieke Broertjes experiment with bio-design to contribute to a more sustainable future by using mycelium.

  • The Future of Plastic

    An exhibition by Maurizio Montalti

    Maurizio Montalti, partner of our Myco Design Lab, just opened his solo exhibition called "The Future of Plastic" in Naples. The exhibition will present some of the latest research and grown products

  • 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

  • Mycelium insulation panels

    First experiments

    This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.

  • Waste As Resource

    An interview with Jonas Edvard

    Jonas Edvard's fascination with waste as resource resulted in his graduation project using mushrooms for upcycling. The MYX lamp is made from textile fiber leftover injected with Oyster Mushroom...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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".

  • Insulating a 3D Print House

    Rob van der Burg works with a 3D printed column by DUS Architects

    In the north of Amsterdam DUS Architects started their 3D Printed Canal House. The Roommaker (Kamermaker) is printing parts of the house, testing its construction and usability. Mediamatic got a hold...

  • Eric Klarenbeeks' organic 3d-printing

    What about a Myceliumchair?

    As a designer, Eric Klarenbeeks' interest lies in combining different materials in unforeseen ways. He does the unusual, for unusual people, projects or purposes. Moreover, Klarenbeek is interested...

  • 'Myco-brewing'?

    Two Processes become one!

    Combining the beer brewing process with our Myco Insulation process for smart production of new materials.

  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...

  • Imagining an Exhibition

    Designing the process and exhibition of the Myco Insulation project.

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • Proposal Flexible wadding from mycelium

    Development of a textile flexible wadding with mycelium

  • Henriette Waal, biervrouw in een mannenwereld.

    Interview met de gloednieuwe Mediamatic Biercurator.

    Henriette Waal (1982), afgestudeerd aan de Design Academy Eindhoven aan de afdeling ’Man and Public Space’, is naast kunstenaar en ontwerper ook bierbrouwer. Voor het Bio-me programma van Mediamatic...

  • Meet the Myco Insulation Brewery Team

    Part 2: Mycelium Cultivation

    Find out more about Ramon, Brendan and Claudia, the current team responsible for the mycelium cultivation activities of the Mediamatic Myco Insulation Brewery.

  • Xylinum

    A stool of spores

    What could future materials and production processes be like?

  • 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.

  • The synthetic kingdom

    A proposal for an additional kingdom in the tree of life by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

    Alexandra Daisy Ginsbergs' biggest interest is the role of design in the biotech revolution§§§. She has been curating an international program in researching synthetic design. In her opinion the tree...

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