Guest Lecture by Feifei Zhou: FUNGI

What does it really mean to "design with fungi"? In recent years, fungi have captured the public imagination, often portrayed as friendly, tasty, or easy to play with for human use. In the design and architecture worlds, mycelium has become a trendy new material, celebrated much like concrete in the 1950s or plastic in the 1970s. Despite this exciting enthusiasm, these treatments reduce fungi to just another resource for human goals, overlooking their complex ecological roles and long evolutionary history as powerful agents in their own right.

FUNGI, Anarchist Designers shows you a different fungal trajectory by viewing them as anarchist designers. From destroying the entire plantations to wiping out species of animals, fungi can be a dangerous threat to humanity if we underestimate them. But they can also be our allies if we care to understand and learn from their own designs. Showing a unique set of research-based collaborations between scholars, on the one hand, and artists and designers, on the other, this exhibition tell true stories around the world to show us how fungi can lead the way as designers.

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