Barbara - Sustainability, design thinking, mycelium, biomaterials
BARBARA / sustainable design thinker / from ITALY / interested in bio-materials and mycelium design
Sustainable design is becoming nowadays, more than ever, an essential and powerful option; that's why in recent years I tried to push almost all of my projects in that direction. I believe innovation can be guided by nature but should be respectful of it. I specialize in sustainable design (with a master degree in Ecodesign & Ecoinnovation for the University of Camerino, in Italy) with an approach based on life cycle assesment.
The first phase of mushroom cultivation is the isolation of a pure culture of mycelium. These cultures are grown in petri dishes, with a medium (food) for the mycelium to digest. Here are some...
An essential characteristic for a insulating panel should be fire resistance, so we tested our samples to check how good they are against fire.
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...
At Mediamatic we're working on a project with the goal to create mycelium panels for insulating an old wooden barn. We are now researching which materials and developing the whole process..
which kind of material can you obtain with an eatable mushroom?
Here is a work in progress growing panels on the same substrate (straw) but with different mycelium strains
Some early design proposals for the Mediamatic's Biolab
mycelium texture again Plerotus Oysteratus panel's texture
We think that this could be a smart and optimal spatial distribution for our biological research laboratory
Mycelium of grey oyster grown on wheat chaff is held extinguishing! Mycelium is flameproof!
