Growing Material Cultures
Growing Material Cultures, is a collaborative project exploring how biomaterials can be grown and foster innovation within communities.
Working with bacterial cellulose grown from kombucha cultures, mycelium from fungi and bio-composite materials, this initiative identifies and utilises local resources.
It brings food waste experts, creatives, community scientists, and researchers together to grow, shape, and explore more sustainable material intelligences.
The project, led by the Auckland University of Technology’s BioFabrication Studio, is a partnership between the AUT School of Future Environments and Awhiworld.
Professor Frances Joseph leads the project together with PhD student Claudine Nalesu. Together they are researching how emerging fibres can connect, upskill, and economically support communities.
The project connects to AwhiWorld’s Strange Intelligences Lab, an ongoing meta-project investigating plant, artificial, and etheric intelligences—now expanding into new organic forms.
Growing Material Cultures is an AUT Biofabrication Studio (School of Future Environments) research initiative delivered in partnership with AwhiWorld and funded by AUT’s Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Contestable Fund.
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Growing Material Cultures is an AUT Biofabrication Studio (School of Future Environments) research initiative delivered in partnership with AwhiWorld and funded by AUT’s Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Contestable Fund.
For AwhiWorld it falls within our larger Strange Intelligences Lab
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