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FLUSHED digest the rest Each day, a large number of pharmaceuticals, their degradation products, and other micropollutants end up in our wastewater. The concentration of heavy metals, hormones, and antibiotics in the groundwater is therefore increasing strongly impacting our environment.The toilet paper flushed has a mycelial component that is only reactivated during flushing. The hyphal …

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COMPOSITE’S CHARACTER mycelium based printing Using traditional printing techniques, such as stencil and screen printing, wood can be precisely inoculated with mycelium. By coating the wood with a mycelium-based printing paste, a cushion-like structure grows partially out of the wood. With the penetration of the mycelium into the surface and the guided growth process, a …

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BEEVACC Bees, vaccinated Honey bees, which are often infected by the varroa mite transmit diseases to wild bees and other insects in their habitat by seeking out the same flowers as a food source. The virus attacks larvae in the developmental stage and usually leads to the death of the brood cell or the entire …

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NOTHING PERMANENT Reuse of individual packaging Nothing Permanent explores the value of packaging materials and gives them another use. We imagine that a second life of packaging materials would already be integrated into the design.Could fungal spores already be incorporated into the cavities of a film? Are the air cushions shaped more like a shoe …

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TROTHAER GARTEN A cooperative garden for everyone This project wants to bring people together around an unusual place, an abandoned gas station. For now, a city gas station is a cold place, covered in concrete and polluted by gasoline. But it is also a large unused area. Some myceliums have the ability to break down …

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MYCELIUM PARACHUTE Artificial meteorochory Fungal hyphae grow on surfaces in hairy filamentous structures. These should grow around plant seeds which could not fly by nature and thus enable them to be spread by the wind. Examples are hair- or paragliders like taraxacum seeds.For this purpose, the plant seeds are coated with a thin layer of …

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OSSMANNSTEDT Blue Dots in Grey Matter This project uses the fungi Aspergillus nidulans to heal an old silo in Oßmannstedt, a village close to Weimar. The silo, built in the 1930s near the Buchenwald concentration camp, was most likely erected as part of the wartime economy. This trauma needs healing, and the abandoned place people …

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