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  • project: 5 dec 2011

    Mycological Material Research

    Artists and designers experiment and play with a new form of myco-material

    We were the first in the Netherlands to get our hands on this new batch of myco-material from Ecovative . Together with some local artists and designers we are conducting material research of our own.

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  • mycomaterial
  • fungus
  • ecology
  • paddestoelen paradijs
  • mycelium
  • 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...

  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.

  • project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • The Mold Fight Begins!

    Our first mold battle

    Our newest installation at the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition is a tiny agar-filled stadium where we will host mold fights. The first fight will be between our visitor Marco's bacteria and the...

  • project: 1 jan 2012

    Coffee Grinds Mushroom Growing Infographic

    Growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee grinds

    Rather then sending our used coffee grinds to the landfill, we're taking them on a much shorter journey down to the Urban Mushroom Farm in the Mediamatic Bank.

  • Paddestoelen Road-Trip

    Our adventures gathering knowledge about growing our own mushrooms

    In order to prepare for the upcoming exhibition at Mediamatic, Paddestoelen Paradijs, we ventured south to the towns of Hedel and Rossum to find out everything we could about growing our own...

  • Mold That Eats Plastic

    This mushroom loves having plastic for dinner

    A little mushroom is making big headlines after it has been found to break down plastic faster and more effectively then its fungal and bacterial predecessors.

  • 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...

  • Maurizio Montalti 5 dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.

  • book: Jay Dayva 1 jan 2003

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    The mystical mushroom enlightenment poems

    This artistic, illustrated volume is filled with information and insights, in a highly-enjoyable format. From the informative introduction, to the collection of 16 poems, this very unique book is one...

  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...

  • book: John M. Allegro 1 jan 1970

    De Heilige Paddenstoel en het Kruis

    Paddenstoelen en religie

    De Heilige Paddenstoelen en het kruis is een studie naar de aard en de oorsprong van het christendom binnen de vruchtbaarheidscultussen van het oude Nabije Oosten.

  • 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...

  • book: Sean Williams 1 jan 2009

    Jesus and the magic mushroom

    Relationship between religion and psychedelics

    This book points out the undeniable similarities between the teachings of Jesus via the Gospel of Thomas, the psychedelic experience, mysticism, and the near death experience, to guide us down the...

  • book: William Robinson 1 jan 1870

    Mushroom Culture

    Its extension and improvement

    William Robinson's mushroom culture book is a complete source of information on the culture of mushrooms.

  • book: Paul Stamets 1 jan 2005

    Mycelium Running

    How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

    Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text...

  • 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

  • Grow Your Own Billboard

    Mycologist Patrick Hickey's living billboard for the film Contagion.

    Viral marketing has taken on a whole new meaning with this living billboard made from fungus and bacteria.

  • Mushrooms Ate My Furniture

    A design object that eats itself

    In the ultimate cyclical process, this garden furniture is embedded with mushrooms which decompose and eat away at it over time.

  • book: Terence McKenna 1 jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...

  • Mycelium Videos

    Lectures and fiction

    1. TED talk by Paul Stamets on 6 ways that mushrooms can save the world. This is already on the Mediamatic site here . 2. What's Mycelium? Mycelium (plural mycelia) is the vegetative part of a...

  • Mycelium and Mushroom Manufacturers

    Information and websites about mushroom companies and growers that can supply us with products.

  • 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...

  • Clean Room

    Lab installatie

    Een clean room is een hele zuivere werkomgeving. Dat betekent dat er heel weinig verontreinigende deeltjes zoals stof, bacteriën en sporen in de lucht zweven. Wij hebben onze eigen clean room gebouwd.

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