Imagine if we could grow buildings…

Mycelium Knitting – Growing Room a street level experiment.

Growing a three metre high structure using mycelium (the root network of fungus) and knitted wool, which will be on display as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival at the National Museum of Scotland (30 March – 14 April 2024)

You can see this progress in a shop window on Westgate Road, although currently under wraps to keep a constant temperature, the structure will hopefully be revealed from 15th to end of March along with some other ‘Living Textiles’

Growing Room at the Assembly House owned by Newcastle Arts Centre is part of a programme of research by the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment at Newcastle University which is exploring a biological, sustainable and local future for construction.

http://bbe.ac.uk/the-growing-room-in-progress-follow-our-growing-process-in-the-newcastle-city-centre/

(link takes you to a third party website)

Vision

“Built environments which are life-sustaining and sustained by life.“

“Our vision is to develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of Living Buildings which are responsive to their natural environment; grown using living engineered materials to reduce inefficient industrial construction processes; metabolise their own waste, reducing pollution, generate energy and high-value products and modulate their microbiome to benefit human health and wellbeing.” “Our vision is to develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of Living Buildings which are responsive to their natural environment; grown using living engineered materials to reduce inefficient industrial construction processes; metabolise their own waste, reducing pollution, generate energy and high-value products and modulate their microbiome to benefit human health and wellbeing.”