SHROOMXIETY. Music of grey oyster fungi.
FUNGAR featured on SPARK, CBC (Canada)
Why fungi could be the future of environmentally sustainable building materials
As the construction industry struggles to deal with its impact on the climate, a new crop of people with big ideas are looking for alternative materials to build with.
Phil Ayres (CITA / KADK), an architect and associate professor of architecture in Copenhagen, says the future of building materials might not be high tech polymers or specialty metals — but mushrooms.
Ayres joined Spark host Nora Young to discuss how he and his team are looking at how mycelium — the fibrous network that exists underneath a fungus — might be used as an environmentally sustainable building material.
Podcast page here – find the podcast under 466: Living Buildings
Streaming option here
Modelling electrical activity of fungal colonies
Thinking with mushoorms
Music of mushroom. Sonification of seven differential channels of electrical activity of grey oyster mycelium.
Fungal sculptures
On 14th January 2019 we had a very productive discussion with famous interactive artists Robbie Thomson http://www.robbiethomson.co.uk/site/ on designing interactive fungal sculptures. Robbie’s installation will be exhibited in Pervasive Media Studio, UWE, Watershed in March.
Prof Marc Baldus (UU) introduces consortium to the history of NMR spectroscopy at Utrecht University.
Observing the fastest centrifuge
Han Wosten (UU), right, and Phil Ayres (CITA), left, discuss future of fungal materials.
In the lab
