MY-CO PLACE – Architecture of Sustainable Growth

MY-CO PLACE is now open! The transdisciplinary urban laboratory of the TU Berlin is a learning station, exhibition space and discussion platform that places mushrooms and mushroom materials at the center of the debate about a future way of building and living. In this place, people from science, art and urban society come together and discuss their ideas for a jointly built and sustainable future. In MY-CO PLACE, visitors can come into direct contact with the microscopically small but macroscopically tangible world of fungi. MY-CO PLACE is a transdisciplinary real laboratory by Prof. Vera Meyer (TU Berlin) and Prof. Sven Pfeiffer (University of Bochum).

The lecture series in the context of the temporary urban laboratory MY-CO PLACE was opened by biotechnologist and molecular biologist Vera Meyer. Her inter- and transdisciplinary research projects combine natural and engineering sciences with art, design and architecture and create bio-based scenarios for possible future living and housing worlds.

Mondays, 7.00–9.00 pm
Mon, 05.06. Die künstlerische Materialkreislauf-Werkstatt | Mitkunstzentrale | Valeria Fahrenkrog, Nora Wilhelm und Erik Göngrich
Mon, 12.06. Fachdialog der Bauakademie | Antonia Diel
Mon, 19.06. Tegel Projekt und Urban Tech Republic | Stephanie Ambrosius-Groß
Mon, 26.06. Open Science, Citizen Science und Pilzbiotechnologie | TOP lab e. V. | Alessandro Volpato
Mon, 03.07. StadtManufaktur-Insights #1 | Grit Bürgow und Anja Steglich
Mon, 10.07. Textile Architektur in Zusammenhang mit Pilzen | Matters of Activity | Natalija Miodragović und Dimitra Almpani-Lekka – Find more information below!
Mon, 17.07. StadtManufaktur-Insights #2 | Grit Bürgow und Anja Steglich
Mon, 24.07. Kreislaufwirtschaft | Johannes Scholz
Mon, 31.07. Podiumsdiskussion – Was haben wir gelernt? | Adrienne Goehler, Albert Lang, Sven Pfeiffer und Vera Meyer

10 July 2023
Myko.Plektonik - An Exploration of Fungal Growth on Structural Textiles
Natalija Miodragovic & Dimitra Almpani-Lekka, »Plektonik« group, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«.
Assisted by MA Student Andrija Mihailovic.
Supported by the Department of Applied and Molecular Microbiology at TU Berlin

The project »Myko.Plektonik« investigates architectural design as a co-operation between plants and filamentous fungi, driven by mycelial growth and textile techniques. In »Myko.Plektonik«, fungal mycelium is grown within knitted willow structures, intertwining the biological and the built environment. It is a project that defines new ways of collaboration between design and science as well as between different local species. During the lecture we will have the opportunity to see, touch and smell some of the prototypes and discuss a future of architecture in the cities where we can grow buildings and live in a flexible symbiosis with nature.