Mycelium design

With its oddly rustic design aesthetic, Sebastian Cox's Mycelium pendant lamps aren't made... they're grown.Mycelium, or the vegetative part of a mushroom, has

A sustainable building material made from agricultural byproducts and mushroom mycelium has been nominated for the Design Museum's Design of the Year 2015.

bioMATTERS' MYCO-ALGA is a sustainable interior tiling system crafted from 3D-printed mycelium, algae, and upcycled natural and organic waste.

#fungi #mycoremediation #brownfield #contamination #architecture #soil #remediation #environmental #mushroom #mycelium A common barrier to the development of Brownfield in modern cities is the associated cost of remediation of land prior to development. Mycoremediation, a new method of soil remediation, still largely overlooked, provides a solution to the problem which is both cost effective, and environmentally-friendly.

As ethical and environmental concerns mount over the use of animal skins in design, we've rounded up six leather alternatives that could replace them.

It started with a chair but like roots of a tree the possibilities run far further and deeper than this - someday we could be growing architecture this way as well. Studio Eric Klarenbeek ('designer of the unusual') produced the Mycelium Chair, which uses straw as a 3d-printed growth medium and ...

The Architectural Dissertation Project from Newcastle University, exploring the potential of the mycelium as a building and structural material. The project examined mycelium through a series of experiments, methodologies, forms and typologies, incorporating its estabilished properties into a grown furntiture piece - a chair.

The microbial community in the ground is as important as the one in our guts.

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