Ideation¶
Before starting Fabricademy, Pauline Gamore, Textile Lab Lyon organized a SHEMAKES codev was in May 2022. During this sessions my questions was:
How do I gather my ideas and find the connections to make a concept emerge?
The most idea was going up is to make a manifest object. With matter, user, color.
In december when the question about the project start I feel completely stress and forgot totally this question.
Step 1- Making a problematic and finding the 5W¶
Mapping map¶
with Marion, we took an evening to use post it, writting and audio recording of the discussion of our subjects in december.
References
1- Paula Ulargui Escalona, Naturaleza Simbiotica
2- Emilie Burfeind, project Sneature
3- Jen Keane, This is grown. / Bioweave 4- Faber Futures by Natsai Audrey Chieza / Ginkgobioworks
5- Vogesella Indigofera, Bioshades
6- Dianjen Lin
7- Kombucha fabrics
8- Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt - Tale of the non-human, 2015
10- Maÿtu
11- Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt - Tale of the non-human, 2015
12- BioKnit Prototype – HBBE (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003023555/structures-architecture-viable-urban-perspective-paulo-cruz-marie-frier-hvejsel?refId=15c7dcc6-c74f-41c0-a14c-cffcc65fcd93&context=ubx)
14- The QR-Code panel is part of the “Dynamic Type Field” series by Communication Designer Nina Flaitz.Mycelium Ressources
15- Mycelium Ressources create by Nina Flaitz
16- Elise Elsacker, Thesis in 2021 :MYCELIUM MATTERS: An interdisciplinary exploration of the fabrication and properties of mycelium-based materials.
17- The Growing Lab / Mycelia is an artistic research project investigating and reflecting upon possibilities for the establishment of active relations and thorough cooperation between human and non-human agents (i.e. fungal microorganisms). by Officina Corpuscoli / Maurizio Montalti
18- Blast Studio
19- Hacketeria, Bio Lab infrastructure
20- Hacketeria, generic lab equipment
22- Mycotree
My first idea was to dedicated of Mycelium, was fews months I was obsess for learning about them.
Question 1, in December : How can the production and use of mycelium be made accessible to citizens?
Following this question, Pauline Gamore of the Textile lab Lyon propose me the opportunity to do a workshop of mycelium for a student designer.
Fews experimentations, meeting and reading later, my subjects was more large...
Question 2, in February : How can the production and use of microorganism be made accessible to citizens?
Step 2- Making a choice¶
I made the choice to not to create on a product, nor an object. When I starting the project I would like to make structure in mycelium. Exploring the raw material for learning the basic on this seemed more like an obvious choice.
I often felt helpless and at a loss. Accepting that my project would not be finished and that it would not have a final form, at least not for the moment. I had this need to understand, to understand how the world of mushrooms works, how it works! To understand the technical part, the process part in its entirety. This exploration brought me back to kombucha and from there it is the world of the living in the broadest sense, I then realized that I was interested.
One thing is certain: I wanted to get closer to the materials, particularly the living, nature, and the earth.
I believe in a better future, a future where we will be in symbiose with nature, mushrooms, bacteria and micro-organisms that surround us.
I start with this utopia :
/if/ the world was a better place
/if/ pollution did not exist
/if/ urbanization was C02 neutral
/if/ our clothes were biodegradable / living / vegetative / fermented
/if/ our furniture was organic
/if/ our trash was an alternative
[...]
This project is more of 3 months project during Fabricademy, and I do not know yet know what form or evolution it will take.
In the last few months, my ideas have only changed day after day, from discoveries to opportunities, discussions, exchanges, and encounters. This is what has made the project evolve. Working with living organisms implies changes and evolutions every day, requiring adaptability as we go along. It has not been and still is not easy to accept this part of the unknown when working with a material where there is no certainty.
These last months have shown me that doing is more important than having something perfect and completely finished. Doing is a first version. Afterwards, I realized that there are many V1s started in this project: a test V1, a collab V1, a workshop V1, a cookbook V1, a documentation V1, a video V1 which is itself a V12, and more.
I realize that I had a need to open several doors to discover several possible fields maybe too much. For be honest I'm lost and still lost inside this project but I don't know why I have this feeling and motivation inside me who push me to learn about it. I'm confident of the mushrooms and micro organism will be help us for the climate change.
I start to crash and didn't know nothing about micororganism and biology before starting Fabricademy too. It involves struggles and continuous trial and error. It brings me back to something very down to earth, to understand the daily needs.
After one year I realize of the idea to make a manifest object and structure is still running in my mind today.
But this project is aswell more some keys for if I continue to work with living organism what is the organization, what's the things are important to take in concideration for working on it.