Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the the following DIY course at Top Lab:
Mind the Fungi | Workshops by TopLab & ALB & TU Berlin
Mind the Fungi:
cultivation course
Dates:
27 April 2 - 6PM
4 May 2 - 6PM
11 May 2 - 6PM
18 May 6 - 8PM
TopLab
will host a mushroom home-cultivation course in collaboration with Art
Laboratory Berlin and the faculty of Applied and Molecular Microbiology (TU
Berlin)
By taking the course, you will learn how to isolate and grow
mushrooms for different purposes. You will learn to create and shape own
mycelium based objects, such as packaging materials, furniture, building
materials and even leather. Additionally, you will learn how to set up a culture
to grow edible mushrooms.
You will also participate in a mycelium
packaging experiment, grow together a mycelium box and ship it per post to test
the material's resistance.
For further details visit TopLab's
webpage http://www.top-ev.de/biolab/mind-the-fungi/ or do not hesitate to contact TopLab via email: lab@top-ev.de
Pre-registration is required.
Registration deadline: April 24th, 6PM.
https://eventyay.com/e/9a13b699/
TopLab, is happy to announce its collaboration on 'Mind The
Fungi', a research project of TU Berlin, Institute for Biotechnology and Art
Laboratory Berlin (2018-2020). Within this collaboration, TopLab will host a
mushroom home-cultivation course for 4 Saturdays from 27.04.19 to
18.05.2019.
What experience will you get by
attending the course?
• Learn directly from TU Berlin scientists and
TopLab's practitioners how to grow fungal mycelium at home for different
purposes.
• Bring home some fungi growing on agar plates, a custom shape
object made of mycelium and an inoculated bag out of which will grow edible
mushrooms.
• Learn how to set up a self-organized mycology laboratory at
home.
• Participate into a scientific project about
biomaterials.
What are the
requirements?
• No prior biology knowledge is needed to attend.
Crash course will be given at opportune moments during the course.
•
Participation fee of 25€ to book your place (more under terms and
conditions).
• Attending the first introductory session is
mandatory.
The team:
Prof Dr.-Ing.
Vera Meyer, Head of chair at TU Berlin, Department of Applied Molecular
Microbiology (AMM)
Dipl. Ing. Bertram Schmidt, Research assistant at TU
Berlin, AMM
Dipl. Ing. Carsten Pohl, Research assistant at TU Berlin,
AMM
Christian de Lutz, Curator, Researcher & Co-Director of Art
Laboratory Berlin
Regine Rapp M.A., Curator, Researcher & Co-Director of
Art Laboratory Berlin
Dr. Flavia Barragan, Chemist & Co-founder of
TopLab
M.Sc. Alessandro Volpato, Biologist & Co-founder of
TopLab
Program:
Day 1 – 27.04.2019, 2 –
6PM
This is the
first meeting of the workshop that you are expected to attend for fundamental
introduction to the four-week-long workshops.
• Get introduced into the "Mind
the Fungi" project
• Mycology* and laboratory crash course
• Start your
fungal cultures for the project
*Mycology is the branch of biology concerned
in the study of mushrooms
Day
2 – 04.05.2019, 2 – 6PM
• Learn
about applications of mycelium as biomaterial
• Learn how to shape a mycelium
culture to create objects
• Expand a fungal culture in a jar or in a shaped
object
• Isolate a mushroom
Day 3 – 11.05.2019, 2 –
6PM
• Learn about the industry that
grows edible mushrooms and how to grow your edible mushrooms
• Expand your
culture in a big grow bag and grow the fruits
• Isolate a
mushroom
Day 4 – 18.05.2019, 4PM
– open end
• Keep isolating your
mushrooms
• Network event: beer and mushroom
The last day of the workshop! You will be discussing what you have learned throughout the session and preparing your materials to share with public in pop-up exhibition at Top Transdisciplinary Project Space.
Book your place
now!
For further details, do not hesitate to contact Top
Lab via email: lab@top-ev.de
Pre-registration is
required.
https://eventyay.com/e/9a13b699/
Terms
and conditions of the registration:
The payment of the fee in
advance is mandatory to book a place for the workshop.
In case of
overbooking, a waiting list will be created.
In case of cancellation of a
reserved place, the ticket will be refunded just in case another participant
takes over that place by covering the fee.
Registration deadline: April 24th,
6PM.
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Mind
the Fungi
Art Laboratory Berlin together with TU Berlin, Institute for Biotechnology work on the Art & Science project Mind the Fungi, which is dedicated to the research of local mushrooms and current fungal biotechnology.
Mushrooms are used in biotechnology as cell factories to produce antibiotics, immunosuppressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs, antimalarials, insulin, prebiotics, pigments, organic acids, enzymes, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and more. The fungal biotechnology of the 20th century managed to establish itself as an essential platform technology for innumerable branches of industry and thus decisively shapes our daily life and our lifestyle in an invisible way.
At the moment, fungal biotechnology is undergoing a disruptive innovation process, which we want to co-design with citizen scientists in a sustainable manner. Mushrooms, which are produced on the basis of renewable vegetable raw materials in the biotechnological process, are to be converted, with far-reaching consequences, into packaging materials, building materials, and even leather.
In the project Mind the Fungi we use the interdisciplinary concept from STEM to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Art) to expand scientific research with artistic and design-based research. The Institute of Biotechnology works with Berlin citizens, artists and designers to develop new ideas and technologies for mushroom and lichen-based materials of the future. The Artists in Residence programme brings art and design into the project as a constructive source of ideas, multipliers and communicators of scientific issues, and supports the process of sharing research processes and findings with the public.
With the expertise of applied
and molecular microbiology in the field of fungal biotechnology (Prof. Meyer),
bioprocess engineering (Prof. Neubauer) and art and science communication (Art
Laboratory Berlin) the aim of the project is also to establish a new, innovative
and interdisciplinary field of research at the TU Berlin, which dares right from
the beginning to build a bridge in the growing Citizen Science Community in
order to integrate their expertise at an early stage.
More information: http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-Mind-the-Fungi.htm
Mind the Fungi is supported by the Technische
Universität Berlin
Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz
Prinzenallee 34, 13359
Berlin
www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
presse@artlaboratory-berlin.org
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