Myco-Materials with Catherine Euale and Jessica Dias of Fungal Matters
The Stories We Tell · Ryan Hodes
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Show Notes
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
- Fungal Matters Instagram
- Catherine's Instagram
- Jessica's Instagram
- Catherine's Myco-leather research
- Jessica's Myco-surfboard project and Ongo Boards instagram
Theme Music: Lacuna (ft. Sunsquabi) by Cloudchord
My info
Website: https://www.remarkablemushroomemporium.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remarkablemushroomemporium/
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