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  • Image: Antoni Gandia

    Hydrophobic reaction of a mycelium pannel

    Detail picture of the eather-like surface of a mycelium panel repelling drops of water
  • bioshop
  • insulation
  • biolab
  • husks
  • cereal
  • lucidum
  • pleurotus
  • ganoderma
  • properties
  • wheat
  • oyster
  • reishi
  • compost
  • ecology
  • bio-material
  • material
  • mycelium
  • fungi
  • resistance
  • construction
  • panel
  • water
  • Mushroom
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • art
  • sound
  • urban
  • Biology
  • Design

  • Mycelium insulation panels

    First experiments

    This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.

  • Mycoinsulation project

    Development of mycelium-based panels for the insulation of a protected wooden barn of Amsterdam.

    •The mycelium has to be grown on agricultural waste or forestry by-products. •The new material should be cost-efficient and not petrochemical dependent. •It should meet the thermal and noise...

  • Psilocybe cubensis

    The magic mushroom

    Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, golden tops, cubes, or gold caps, it...

  • Mushrooms DIY

    Free mushroom cultivation manuals

    A compendium of manuals, articles and printed material on mushroom cultivation techniques

  • Lab Equipment

    Basic stock for research and workshops

    This is a list of basic requirements for any laboratory focused on chemical o microbiological research
  • Sluisdeurenloods, Mediamatic Biotoop Simeon Goodwin

    Saving the Sluisdeurenloods

    The Sluisdeurenloods at Biotoop Dijksgracht was up for demolition - but all it needs is love and fungus to transform it from a cold dusty space into an innovative exhibition and event space.

  • Growing Materials

    Mycelium design

    Mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus, is one of those pretty invisible organism which, if put in the right condtions, reproduces itself like crazy! That's why in the last years it became one of...
  • conservation protocol Antoni Gandia

    Conservation of germplasm

    by Philip G. Miles (2004)

    There has been much concern in recent years about decreases in natural resources and the steady diminishment of untouched natural land. With the encroachment on this ever-decreasing amount of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Linde van Beers, Ashley Scarborough

    Myco Brewery Growing Process

    How we grow beautiful mycelium products

    From early October we began to have consistent success with our mycelium growth on the spent grain from our myco brewery, so we thought the best way to celebrate this is to share our knowledge of the...

  • Imagining an Exhibition

    Designing the process and exhibition of the Myco Insulation project.

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • Building with Living Materials

    Architectural design with biology programme at Mediamatic

    In 2014 Mediamatic started to develop a new program that combines architecture with living materials in experimental ways. Living materials cannot only be more ecological, they offer very exiting new...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Inga Tilda

    Chocolate Tempeh!

    In the CleanLab we have been testing a new substrate... chocolate! We have been using Cacoa Nibs for this process, some also infused with orange and lemon peel, to give more of a citrusy taste!  We...

  • Bio Clean Lab Inventory

    The things you can expect to find

    Find out here about the standard equipment, what you will get to use when you come work here, and what stuff you will have to bring yourself or buy in the new Bio Art Supply Store.

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • Proposal PRINTING - CULTIVATING - APPLICATING

    A functional way to transfer and cultivate the qualities of mycelium.
  • magic mushroom

    Ganoderma - Reishi

    wikipedia "The Mushroom of Immortality."

  • Discussion

    Please share your thoughts, notes and ideas, and comment on those of others.

  • The mushroom of immortality!

    super healthy mushroom

  • 'Myco-brewing'?

    Two Processes become one!

    Combining the beer brewing process with our Myco Insulation process for smart production of new materials.

  • Fungal Futures

    Exhibition at Utrecht University

    Oude Hortus, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht | March 24 - May 16 2016 A collaborative project between Utrecht University, Officina Corpuscoli and Mediamatic.

  • BioTalk: Bulletproof Skin and growing Mycelium…

    Wednesday April 9th. Food at 19:00, talks at 20:00

    Jalilla Essaïdi and Jonas Edvard talk about their projects, both engaged in the development of sustainable products. Jalilla is creating a bulletproof skin of spider silk and is optimizing this as a...

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