The Future Material

  • Angelina Aleksandrovich

VR headset grown out mushroom mycelium, R&D Project, 2016

The research-led project explores fungi material as the solution to a number of resource and environmental problems. The project aims to raise awareness and demonstrate on practice how technology and biology can merge together to create new possibilities for the mankind. A mobile VR headset was grown out of fungi mycelium to show how something purely organic can become a piece of technology itself. Mushroom culture was planted in the 3d printed growing case and left there to grow and strengthen. Alongside the headset, growing live during the exhibition, a 360° film was made to demonstrate the methodology behind the process, ending in a virtual gallery presenting the research and other fungi application explored earlier.