We don't manufacture what we live with. We grow it.

Mycelium stools held above a third on a plinth

Gus · Bauhau-AI, Milan 2023

SS-G-01 · Gus · stage 01

Imagine

Tilly, our AI designer, proposes the form.

Why we grow

The things around us are part of the brief too.

What we breathe, touch and sit beside every day shapes how the body feels. A grown material was alive before it was finished, needs no synthetic coating, and can return to the soil. In a sealed environment, far from Nature, it may be the first living matter people live beside.

SpecimenSS-G-01

Gus

TypeStool

Designed byTilly Talbot

Grown withMagical Mushroom Company

MaterialMycelium

ShownLondon Design Festival 2023

Gus resting on a mesh shelf inside a steel drying cabinet

No two are the same. The markings are a record of how each one grew.

Illustration · living light, pulsing

SS-G-04 · Living light · ongoing

Can light be grown?

Bioluminescent organisms grown in water, as a study for light that is alive. The protocol:

LightAmount controlled

TemperatureMonitored

SoundOne specimen, 30 minutes of music a day

Experiments

Four things, growing.

SS-G-01GusA stool imagined by a machine and grown by an organism.LDF 2023

SS-G-02The domeGrown panels on a curved timber frame. A room to sit inside.Built

SS-G-03The grown lightA giant bulb form, grown rather than manufactured.Growing soon

SS-G-04Living lightBioluminescence in water, under changing light, warmth and sound.Ongoing

Imagined by a machine, grown by an organism.

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