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  • Mari Koppanen wraps seating collection in traditional Transylvanian mushroom leather

    Furniture designer Mari Koppanen has resurrected a suede-like material, historically made in parts of central Romania from hoof fungus, to upholster a rotund stool and matching bench. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 2 February 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Blast Studio 3D prints column from mycelium to make "architecture that could feed people"

    London practice Blast Studio has developed a method for 3D printing with living mycelium and used it to form a column that could be harvested for mushrooms before serving as a structural building element. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 18 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Emma van der Leest develops fungal coating to make bio-leather more durable

    Dutch designer Emma van der Leest believes that bio-leather might one day replace animal leather in the fashion industry and is developing a fungal coating to make the material more versatile. More

    Amy Frearson | 1 November 2021 | Leave a comment
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    Superflux imagines multi-species banquet for Venice Architecture Biennale

    All forms of life on Earth, from humans to animals, plants and fungi, are given an equal seat at the table in the Refuge for Resurgence installation by London studio Superflux. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 19 May 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Jamie Pybus designs Fungi Factory kit for growing mushrooms in coffee grounds

    Northumbia university graduate Jamie Pybus has devised a household system for cultivating edible mushrooms using leftover coffee grounds as a growing medium. More

    Augusta Pownall | 8 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast

    Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Shaina Garfield redesigns death with sustainable coffin

    New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 18 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Aniela Hoitink creates dress from mushroom mycelium

    Dutch textile designer Aniela Hoitink has created a dress using disc-shaped pieces of mushroom mycelium, which she believes will "change the way we use textiles". More

    Alice Morby | 1 April 2016 | 2 comments
  • Mushroom inhalers replace vaccination needles in RCA student proposal

    For those scared of injections, Royal College of Art student Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 16 July 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Lab-grown materials form fashion and furniture for Vivorium lifestyle concept

    New York designer Ali Schachtschneider has imagined a future in which biologically grown materials are used to create furniture, garments and tools that would become "extensions of the body". More

    Dan Howarth | 10 May 2015 | 5 comments
  • Mushroom-based modelling kit allows users to grow their own designs

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

    Maudie Manton | 25 March 2015 | 2 comments
  • Growing products from fungus could be the start of a "biotechnological revolution"

    Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Amsterdam designer Maurizio Montalti explains how biological organisms such as fungi could be harnessed to create new sustainable materials in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. More

    Benedict Hobson | 21 January 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Fungi Mutarium turns waste plastic into edible treats

    Austria-based Livin Studio has created a process to cultivate edible fungi that digests plastic as it grows (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 10 December 2014 | 21 comments
  • Drone grown from fungus-like material melts if it crash lands

    A team of researchers has completed a working prototype for a drone made from a fungal material that will biodegrade if it crashes outdoors. More

    Tamlin Magee | 20 November 2014 | 3 comments
  • Tower of "grown" bio-bricks by The Living opens at MoMA PS1

    News: New York studio The Living has completed this year's MoMA PS1 gallery pavilion – a cluster of circular towers built from bricks that have been grown from corn stalks and mushrooms (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 1 July 2014 | 2 comments
  • 3D-printed mushroom roots "could be used to build houses"

    Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures. More

    James Pallister | 6 March 2014 | Leave a comment
  • Organic tower grown from agricultural waste wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014

    News: New York studio The Living has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program competition with plans to cultivate bio-bricks from corn stalks and mushrooms, and use them to build a tower in the courtyard of the New York gallery (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 February 2014 | Leave a comment
  • Mycelium Chair by Eric Klarenbeek is 3D-printed with living fungus

    Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Eric Klarenbeek has 3D-printed a chair using living fungus, which then grows inside the structure to give it strength (+ slideshow) More

    Marcus Fairs | 20 October 2013 | 4 comments
  • Fungi Lamp by Andreas Kowalewski

    Amsterdam designer Andreas Kowalewski has created a series of lamps shaped like mushrooms. More

    Catherine Warmann | 11 January 2011 | 4 comments

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