Myco-Communities - Growing our Future Science Week
Science Week 2018
|Canberra, ACT.
Free Science Week Event for schools in Australia to get involved and harness the untapped potential of fungi as self-growing materials - building materials, insulation, packaging, fabrics, sculptural art. Register closed for school projects. Myco-Communities will be on display at Science in ACTion.
Time & Location
Science Week 2018
Canberra, ACT.
About the event
For Science in ACTion 2017, student and members of the public enjoyed Fungi Co’s hands-on MycoPower workshops (demonstrating the power of fungi to convert paper waste into mushrooms). Fungi Co have extended this concept by designing ‘Myco-bricks’; small living bricks made of fast-growing mushroom mycelium grown on waste paper. Under the right conditions, these modular bricks can be used to build structures that will then, over several days, fuse together into one conglomerate fungal structure.
Participating schools have been provided materials and tuition for students to design and build their own myco-structures from mushroom mycelium and waste material (e.g. using: shredded paper, leaves, eggshells, books, clothing, etc). Students will be encouraged to apply mushroom biology, art, design and engineering to grow buildings or sculptures approximately 50cm in height.
For the duration of Science in ACTion 2018, our ‘Myco-Communities’ event will have on display each participating school’s structures alongside…