Myco-Materials With Catherine Euale And Jessica Dias Of Fungal Matters The Stories We Tell podcast

Myco-Materials with Catherine Euale and Jessica Dias of Fungal Matters

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Myco-materials is an emerging field that uses mycelium and fungi to solve a vast array of problems--from sustainable design, to biodegradable packaging, to home + construction, and architecture + design. Companies like Ecovative and Loop (s/o Marc Violo) pioneered this industry, but there are hundreds of startups and entrepreneurs expanding on the solutions in the space.

Jessica Diaz & Catherine Euale have been partners in all things mycelium for many years now, and their most recent project is called Fungal Matters--an online myco-materials design course. Catherine comes from a textiles and fashion design background, and Jessica comes from an architecture background, so they bring a wide mix of knowledge and experience to their collaboration

In this episode, we'll touch on

Mycelium design course
What kinds of mushrooms they use in myco material making
Ethnomycological uses of mycelium and mushrooms - aka how it has been used for centuries
New projects for Catherine and Jessica, like:
3D printing in myco materials
Mushroom material surfboard
Myco-leather research

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
4:40 - What are myco-materials?
5:37 - Myco-Materials design course (Fungal Matters)
10:22 - What mushrooms to use in myco-materials?
13:45 - Ethno-mycological (historical) uses of myco-materials
18:23 - How to prevent fruiting
19:20 - 3D Printing in myco-materials
22:00 - How Jessica and Catherine got into mycology
29:53 - Myco-Materials Design Course - Mycology 101
34:07 - Innoculation + Incubation
36:10 - Substrates, Composites + Membranes
41:47 - Digital Fabrication, Finishes + Fungal Futures
44:55 - What comes next?
47:50 - Other projects they're working on
54:00 - Outro

Resources

Theme Music: Lacuna (ft. Sunsquabi) by Cloudchord

My info

Website: https://www.remarkablemushroomemporium.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remarkablemushroomemporium/

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