Plants

🔍 Working with Roots

Zena Holloway is an artist working with roots. She made a lot of wearable, hanging pieces and jewelries with roots. Here to rootfull.com to read more about her works and her concepts.

One thing we feel really confused is how she preserved the roots. When working with the roots myself, I found it so hard to even cut down the roots from the growing plate. (here to my documentation on working with roots)

diana scherer is another artist working with roots. I didn’t do much research on her until this documentation. From her website, it seems that she is growing a massive amount of seeds!

🍄 Fungus

• The easiest fungi to grow: oyster, white button, and Shiitake | [reference](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-easiest-way-to-grow-mushrooms#:~:text=The 3 types of mushrooms,grow best in composted manure.)

• Basic requirements for mushroom cultivation | reference

  • Mushrooms grow from mycelium, the thread-like roots of fungi.
  • Temperature, gas exchange, and moisture, light
    • Vertical farming mushrooms requires a specific light spectrum and intensities for mushrooms’ crucial metabolic processes and tissue development. Too little or too much light can suppress mushroom formation and impact crop yields. – LED lights (blue and red LED spectrums mimic sunlight and stimulate fruiting in many edible fungi); LED lights also consume less energy
    • Brightness of the lighting should be adjustable as mushrooms transit between colonization and fruiting stages

  

  credit: https://www.slideshare.net/yasmain/fungi-notes

  reference

  What is Mycelium?

  Mycelium is the vegetative part of the fungus. It is a part of the widely popular food source- mushroom. While mushroom is the flowering part of fungi, mycelium is the living root-like structure.

Fabrics

⚪️ Mycelium Fabric

mycelium, the mass of branched, tubular filaments (hyphae) of fungi. The mycelium makes up the thallus, or undifferentiated body, of a typical fungus. (Britannica)

• Features of the mycelium fabric: The fabric created from mycelium is non-toxic, waterproof, and fire-resistant. It can be as thin as paper for dresses and lamp shades, or incredibly thick for heavy-duty items, and in both cases, the end result is remarkably flexible and strong.

https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/mushroom-life-cycle

• a company using the fabric to make stuff

• [reference](https://www.kleiderly.com/our-blog/sustainable-fabric-series-all-about-mycelium-fabric#:~:text=The fabric created from mycelium,is remarkably flexible and strong.)

  

  https://materialdistrict.com/article/mycotex-textile-mushroom-mycelium/

🧪 Bio-material Workshop (Apr. 22)