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From Extraction to Being (2025)
Material Exploration, Biomateials, Mycelium, Bioplastics
This work explores a simple question: What might it look like to build
relationship with an organism? For this work, mycelia became the focus.
Following its narrative and trails of its life world through human
documentation, a pattern quickly became evident: extraction was at the
core of this knowledge production. This project unpacks how scientific
framing, under the pretense of objectivity, shapes the ways we build
relationships with organisms and the Earth.
This research contributes to a growing body of knowledge around mycelia
and introduces a perspective not yet fully explored, one that centers
the life world and agency of the organism. The project situates itself
within foundational literature through a philosophical and
epistemological approach grounded in material science. Rather than
regarding mycelia solely as a material resource, the work builds from
speculative iteration to develop relational methodologies that
prioritize care, routine, and attunement over extraction.
What might it look like to build
relationship with an organism?
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