historic, scientific, and cultural research

Resources

MycoWorks’ foundations are based on a coming-together of history, culture, craft, and design, and evolved from a hands-on approach to making objects and cultivating living systems.
Along our journey, we have published several scientific papers and publications, but have managed to push forward our technology by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Below you can find a selection of resources that inspired our genesis.

Please note the level of expertise:

🟢 Beginner
🔵 Intermediary
🟣 Advanced

CULTURE, THEORY, HISTORIES

• Biodegradable Architecture: Finite Constructions for Endless Futures | Munira Z. Karimjee 🔵
  Landscape and environmental consideration of mycotechnologies.
• Blood Spore: of Murder and Mushrooms | Hamilton Morris 🟢
• Mr. Bloomfield’s Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists | Nicholas P. Money 🟢
• The Mushroom at the End of the World | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 🔵
• Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms | Eugenia Bone 🟢
• Merging Science and Art Through Fungi | Vera Meyer 🟢
• The Beauty and the Morbid: Fungi as Source of Inspiration in Contemporary Art | Corrado Nai & Vera Meyer 🟢

MYCOLOGY

• Cornell Mushroom Blog 🟢 – 🟣
  Resources and narratives from the world of mushroom science
• Enabling Community-Based Metrology For Wood-Degrading Fungi | Rolando Perez et al. 🟢 – 🟣
• Fungi In Their Own Right | Joseph G.H. Wessels **
• Principles of Mushroom Developmental Biology | David Moore 🔵
• World of Fungi | David Moore 🟢 – 🟣
  David Moore’s mycology (fungal biology) resources for students and educators

DESIGN

• Mycelium Design | Dezeen 🟢
  Clearinghouse of stories about European mycelium design
• Mycelium Knowledge | Mediamatic 🟢
  Information about mushroom applications and other fermentation
• Mycotecture | MoMA 🟢
  The Superflux view of future mycelium

FERMENTATION AND CULTIVATION

• Growing Ganoderma Mushrooms | Alice W. Chen 🔵
• Mushrooms Industry & Trade | U.S. International Trade Commission 🔵
• Mycelium Running | Paul Stamets 🔵
  The classic guidebook to the tech and technique for growing mushrooms
• United Nations Training Manual on Mushroom Cultivation | Shu-Ting Chang 🔵

MATERIAL TESTING

• Advanced Materials From Fungal Mycelium | Nature 🔵
  Testing and justification of mycelium materials for industry
• Manual de Biofabricación Con Hongos | Laboratorio de Biofabricación Fadeu 🔵
  Spanish language biofabrication manual
• Mycelium Material Study | Studio Murmur 🔵
  Experiments and test results for mycotecture materials
• mycoFARMX_Living Architecture | AADRL 🔵
  Modeling, testing and proposal for urban scale mycotecture

OPEN LABS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• Bay Area Applied Mycology 🟢
  Mushroom NGO dedicated to cultivation and ecology workshops
• Biotech Without Borders 🟣
  Non-profit dedicated to democratizing the practice of biotechnology for the benefit of humankind and the planet
• Counter Culture Labs 🟣
  A community supported microbiology maker space
• Genspace 🟣
  New York based community lab focused on biotechnology
• North American Mycological Association 🟢 – 🟣
  Clearinghouse of information about local mushroom clubs, cultivation links, science literature for educators and more