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  • Image: Lizan Freijsen

    fungus magnified

    Magnified fungal cultures. This artwork is part of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition.
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  • Lizan Freijsen 1 Oct 2011

    Fungi

    Photographic installation

    Fungus is spreading across our walls, magnified to a large scale and infiltrating our exhibition space.

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...
  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.
  • Project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • Mold That Eats Plastic

    This mushroom loves having plastic for dinner

    A little mushroom is making big headlines after it has been found to break down plastic faster and more effectively then its fungal and bacterial predecessors.

  • The Mold Fight Begins!

    Our first mold battle

    Our newest installation at the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition is a tiny agar-filled stadium where we will host mold fights. The first fight will be between our visitor Marco's bacteria and the...

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.
  • Book: Cath Cool, H.A.A Van Der Lek 1 Jan 1943

    Paddenstoelenboek II

    Het boekje was het eerste met uitgebreide determinatiesleutels, waarin paddenstoelensoorten konden worden uitgesleuteld.

    Het Paddenstoelenboek deel II is een vervolg op het Paddestoelenboek I. Het uiterlijk van het boek is geheel identiek aan deel I; een stevig boek met een historisch uiterlijk. Ook hier ontbreken de...
  • Book: G.D.Swanenburg de Veye 1 Jan 1945

    Paddenstoelen

    in woord en beeld

    Men heeft zich al flink uitgeleefd op dit pocket-size antiek boekje over paddestoelen. Dit is niet zo gek aangezien het al meer dan 60 jaar bestaat. Aan de papiersoort en de kaft is duidelijk te zien...
  • Book: Rob Chrispijn 1 Jan 1999

    Champignons in de Jordaan

    De paddestoelen van Amsterdam

    Dit is de weerslag van vijf jaar onderzoek naar het voorkomen van paddestoelen in Amsterdam en naaste omgeving. In die vijf jaar heeft Rob alle hoofdstedelijke plekken die ook maar even in aanmerking...
  • Book: William Robinson 1 Jan 1870

    Mushroom Culture

    Its extension and improvement

    William Robinson's mushroom culture book is a complete source of information on the culture of mushrooms.
  • Book: Nina Lovering Marshall 1 Jan 1905

    Mushroom Book

    A popular mushroom guide

    A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties.
  • Book: Ewald Gerhardt 1 Jan 2011

    De grote paddenstoelengids voor onderweg

    Paddenstoelengids

    Voor de grote paddestoelen fans onder ons hebben we 'De grote paddenstoelengids voor onderweg'. Dat er maar liefst 1000 soorten worden beschreven is ook te zien aan de dikte van de gids. Alle...
  • Book: Eva Wrange, Bo Nylén 1 Jan 2005

    Gott med svamp

    Plocka säkert - Laga läckert

    Little Swedish cook book. Gives recipes and tips about how to use certain mushrooms. Includes delicious looking risottos, pastas, pizza's and curries. Gott med svamp translates as 'good with...
  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 Jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...
  • Project: 5 Dec 2011

    Mycological Material Research

    Artists and designers experiment and play with a new form of myco-material

    We were the first in the Netherlands to get our hands on this new batch of myco-material from Ecovative . Together with some local artists and designers we are conducting material research of our own.
  • Project: 1 Jan 2012

    Coffee Grinds Mushroom Growing Infographic

    Growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee grinds

    Rather then sending our used coffee grinds to the landfill, we're taking them on a much shorter journey down to the Urban Mushroom Farm in the Mediamatic Bank.

  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.
  • Michel Blazy 1 Jan 2007

    Mur de Double Concentré de Tomate

    Installation

    Facilitating the observation of nature through the slow processes of decay and moulding, Michel Blazy's installation brings fungus to a whole new level.
  • Book: Paul Stamets 1 Jan 2005

    Mycelium Running

    How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

    Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text...

  • Artworks in the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition

    September 2011 - July 2012

  • Book: Terence McKenna 1 Jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...
  • Book: Sean Williams 1 Jan 2009

    Jesus and the magic mushroom

    Relationship between religion and psychedelics

    This book points out the undeniable similarities between the teachings of Jesus via the Gospel of Thomas, the psychedelic experience, mysticism, and the near death experience, to guide us down the...
  • Book: Jay Dayva 1 Jan 2003

    I

    The mystical mushroom enlightenment poems

    This artistic, illustrated volume is filled with information and insights, in a highly-enjoyable format. From the informative introduction, to the collection of 16 poems, this very unique book is one...

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