Mycelium Knitting Workshop

Mycelium Knitting Workshop

Textiles have inspired architects for decades. From ornamental aspects in early modern times to developments in composite materials today.
But could textile production techniques influence the way we build and design spaces?

In this block seminar we will explore knitting as a lever for designing and constructing spaces from mycelial composites.

Mycelium is the root-like structure of fungi which, when cultivated on organic particles (hemp shives, wood dust, etc.), can form a building material with properties similar to cork. Due to the emergence of the material during the cultivation process, all the parameters we normally associate with the cultivation of plants (humidity, sunlight, temperature, etc.) can have a crucial role in the formation of the material. These parameters will also influence the way we construct, design and imagine the spaces created with this living organism.

The seminar will be conducted by the staff of IBK2 (Eliza Biala and Piotr Fabirkiewicz) together with designer Anne-Kathrin Kühner (https://annekuehner.com/).

Selection process:
Please send a short letter of interest of why you want to participate in the seminar to: eliza.biala@ibk2.uni-stuttgart.de and register on the waiting list on C@mpus

Semester schedule:
All meetings takes place in Future Material Lab

[FuMaLab, University of Stuttgart, Echterdinger Straße 57, Bau 10]
Googlemaps: https://goo.gl/maps/Zcn7qrXaZB6p3Q697

First meeting Friday, 21.04.2023 15:00 – 17:00
Preparatory meetings with lectures and introductory workshops:
Fridays, 15:00-18:00: 28.04.2023, 5.05.2023, 12.05.2023

Block-seminar building workshop: 23-26.05.2023