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<p><font size=3><strong><font color=#008000 size=5 face=Cambria>MIND THE
FUNGI<br><br></font></strong></font><font size=4><font face=Cambria><font
color=#008000><strong>MATERIAL DRIVEN DESIGN. Sculpting with Bioplastic
Textile</strong><br></font>Online discussion and workshop with Fara
Peluso<br><br></font></font><font size=3><font face=Cambria><strong>
6 May 2020 | 6 – 8</strong> <strong>pm<br></strong><br></font></font><font size=3
face=Cambria><strong>Livestream at </strong><a
href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-Material-Driven.htm"><strong>http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-Material-Driven.htm</strong></a><br><br><img border=0
src="cid:782400_061801588266557000@ArtLaboratoryBe"><br><br>Today Material Research is a central point in the
theory and practice of designing new technologies, in cooperation with art and
design. These fields are currently collaborating, merging their knowledge and
practice to develop a new generation of materials, by focusing on specific
characteristics, to create new environmentally friendly materials. Another
approach, however, has also arisen in the last years combining making, crafting
and personal fabrication of new materials through a form of Do It Yourself (DIY)
biology and craftmaking.<br><br> </font><font size=3 face=Cambria>This
<strong><em>Mind the Fungi</em></strong> workshop discusses this new material
driven design movement and methodology, learning how to build a new material by
studying and using a living organism like mycelium. Discovering the features,
possibilities and limits of mycelium-based materials, the participants will work
together growing material and developing new material, building sculptures,
assembling DIY packaging and drawing and cutting patterns on a new material made
of biofilm.<br><br></font><font size=3 face=Cambria><strong>Due to the COVID-19
crisis the full hands-on workshop, initially planned for March 2020, has
been postponed and will hopefully take place later this year. This online
discussion and workshop will offer the public a look into Fara Peluso's
research as artist and designer-in-residence in the TU Berlin Institute of
Biotechnology as part of the <em>Mind the Fungi</em> project.
<br></strong></font><font size=3 face=Cambria><strong>Livstream on 6 May 2020,
from 6 pm <a
href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-Material-Driven.htm">here</a>.<br><br></strong></font><font
size=3 face=Cambria><br></font><font size=3 face=Cambria><em><strong>Fara
Peluso</strong>, a Berlin based artist-designer, graduated in industrial design
and graphic design at University of Spienza, Deptm. for Architecture, Rome.
Through speculative research her work connects the human being with nature,
living organisms and biological processes to form a deeper relationship.
Together with biologists, she has pursued deep research into algae, taking
constantly inspiration from them, experimenting and understanding how to work
with them inside the fields of Art and Design. In collaboration with BioArt
Laboratories in Eindhoven, she developed the prototyping of a speculative
wearable accessory, WeaReactor, which connects the algae's photosynthesis
process with the breath of the wearer (exhibited at DDW17 in Eindhoven in 2017;
at Art Laboratory Berlin in 2019). Peluso has extended this knowledge over the
last 15 months by working with researchers at the TU Berlin Institute of
Biotechnology on mycelium-based materials as an artist-designer-in-residence in
the project Mind the Fungi.<br><br></em></font><font size=3
face=Cambria><em><strong>Mind the Fungi</strong> (2018-20) is a collaborative
project between the Institute of Biotechnology TU Berlin and Art Laboratory
Berlin. Biotechnologists and process engineers are researching local tree fungi
and lichens (Prof. Vera Meyer/ Applied Molecular Microbiology; Prof. Peter
Neubauer / Bioprocess Engineering). The focus is on developing new ideas and
technologies for fungal and lichen based materials for the future. Art
Laboratory Berlin bridges the gap between science, art, design and the public
and offers various Citizen Science formats. The Artist- and Design-Residencies
with Fara Peluso and Theresa Schubert bring in art and design as constructive
sources of ideas for this research project.<br></em><a
href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-Mind-the-Fungi.htm">More
information</a></font></p>
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</font><font size=3><br></font><br><br><strong><font size=2><font
face=Cambria><em>Mind the Fungi</em> enjoys the generous support of the Technische
Universität Berlin as part of the program <em>Citizen Science - Forschen mit der
Gesellschaft</em></font>:</font></strong><br><br><img border=0
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size=2 face=Cambria>Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz<br>Prinzenallee 34, 13359
Berlin<br></font><a href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org"><font
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