Can the buildings that we live in come alive? Could such living buildings help us to create a healthier, more sustainable future? Could they become adaptive, resilient structures that care for the planet while empathizing, comforting and inspiring us? The Living Dialogs series brings together scholars and thinkers to collectively reflect on living architecture and its implications for our changing world.
We believe that knowledge creation, like living architecture itself, is a collaborative and living endeavour – that meaning is not simply created through the exchange of information but that ideas are formed through open and emergent conversations.
Podcast S3E2: Collaborating with living systems: How mycelium can help us rethink architectural practice
With Carole Collet and Merlin Sheldrake
41:51 — https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s3e2
February 12, 2024
In this episode, Living Dialogs host Edgar Cardenas is joined by Carole Collet and Merlin Sheldrake as they engage in a wide-ranging conversation about living systems, what mycelium can teach us about designing for the future, and what this means for the future of architecture as a practice.
Guests
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- Dr. Merlin Sheldrake,
- Biologist and Author,
- Vrije University Amsterdam
- https://merlinsheldrake.com
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- Prof. Carole Collet,
- Co-director, Living Systems Lab
- Central Saint Martins UAL
- https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/research-at-csm/-and-living-systems-lab-research-group
Supported by the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative and the University of Waterloo.
Podcast References
In the podcast you will have heard the following references; follow the links to find out more.
02:36 – Mycelium
02:53 – Alchemy/Alchemist
08:34 – Anthropocentrism
14:57 – Research on mycelial biomaterial production
32:33 – Compostable architecture
35:33 – Masters of Regenerative Design at the University of the Arts London
36:45 – Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds by Merlin Sheldrake
Living Dialogs Team
Rob Gorbet
Executive Producer
Edgar Cardenas
Executive Producer & Podcast Host
Sascha Hastings
Producer & Editor
Olivia Deneka Kopeschny
Project Manager & Marketing Coordinator
Graeme DePiero
Project Manager & Marketing Coordinator
Episode Archive
Podcast S3E1: Bridging the gap between living and architecture: metabolic buildings, technological species, and a culture of care
With Manuel Kretzer and Areti Markopoulou
October 23, 2023
Podcast S2E1: Listening to Many Voices: Inclusivity and Living Architecture
With Behnaz Farahi, Bianca Weeko Martin, Michael Lee Poy, Brian Porter
March 21, 2022
Podcast S1E3: Biology, Computation, and Care in the Anthropocene - Part 2
With Rachel Armstrong, Dehlia Hannah, and Mette Ramsgaard Thomson
October 21, 2021
Podcast S1E2: Biology, Computation, and Care in the Anthropocene
With Rachel Armstrong, Dehlia Hannah, and Mette Ramsgaard Thomson
August 30, 2021
Podcast S1E1: Principles, Aesthetics, and Sustainability of Living Architecture
With Jenny Sabin, Mitchell Joachim, Philip Beesley
March 15, 2021
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.