TU Delft researcher Bob Hendrikx has created Living Cocoon, a coffin made from mycelium that helps bodies decompose faster while improving the surrounding soil. More about Bob Hendrikx designs "living coffin" from mushroom mycelium
Mycelium pendant lamps dangle above recycled-plastic dining tables inside Silo, a zero-waste restaurant in east London designed by studio Nina+Co. More about Sustainable food and furniture features in zero-waste London restaurant Silo
The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. More about Pavilion grown from mycelium acts as pop-up performance space at Dutch Design Week
Northumbia university graduate Jamie Pybus has devised a household system for cultivating edible mushrooms using leftover coffee grounds as a growing medium. More about Jamie Pybus designs Fungi Factory kit for growing mushrooms in coffee grounds
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has grown a series of arched architectural structures from mushroom mycelium, which will be returned to the soil after Milan design week is over, in a fully circular fashion. More about Carlo Ratti grows Gaudí-inspired structures with a kilometre of mushroom mycelium
London-based designer Nir Meiri has created a series of table lamps using mushroom mycelium, as an alternative to synthetic materials. More about Nir Meiri makes sustainable lamps from mushroom mycelium
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. More about Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
Fungi can be used to break down waste plastic and create sustainable building materials, according to scientists from Kew Gardens in London. More about Mushrooms have the power to eat plastic say scientists
Sebastian Cox has become the latest designer to start working with mushroom mycelium – the British furniture maker has teamed up with researcher Ninela Ivanova to investigate the material's potential in commercial furniture design. More about Mushroom mycelium used to create suede-like furniture by Sebastian Cox and Ninela Ivanova
While some architects have been experimenting with mushroom mycelium as a cladding material, architect Dirk Hebel and engineer Philippe Block have gone one step further – by using fungi to build self-supporting structures. More about Tree-shaped structure shows how mushroom roots could be used to create buildings
A group of Indian and Italian architects has built a pavilion in southwest India using mushroom mycelium, to demonstrate how the material could be used to create temporary venues for major events. More about Fungus used to build arching pavilion in Kerala
Brunel University student Aleksi Vesaluoma has developed a technique for using mushroom mycelium as an environmentally friendly construction material. More about Structure grown from "mushroom sausages" shows potential for zero-waste architecture
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 about Aniela Hoitink creates dress from mushroom mycelium
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 about Mushroom-based modelling kit allows users to grow their own designs
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 about Tower of "grown" bio-bricks by The Living opens at MoMA PS1
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 about 3D-printed mushroom roots "could be used to build houses"
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 about Organic tower grown from agricultural waste wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014
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 about Mycelium Chair by Eric Klarenbeek is 3D-printed with living fungus