Mycelium Movement: Research and Exhibition by Student Artist in Residence Grace Schleck
Student Artist-in-Residence Grace Schleck presents: Mycelium Movement
The complexities of the climate crisis require new design paradigms to help build a more symbiotic world. Within this context, fungal mycelium emerges as an insightful teacher, with root-like networks that reflect potentials of connection, transformation, and mutual support.
The Mycelium Movement project explores pathways where mycelium becomes a partner in low-carbon and bio-based design. This multi-media installation brings collaborators across architecture, material science, mycology, food science, wild foraging, and the arts. Set in the Movement Lab with physical mycelium bio-design samples, Mycelium Movement aims to illuminate the movements of mycelium across scales: microscopically as a material, regionally as a resource, and communally as a connector between disciplines.
The exhibition will feature Dirty Mycelium and Mycelium Under the Microscope projects at the Columbia University GSAPP Natural Materials Lab, MYCRO: Illuminating the World Of Funga and Microbes, Kali Mushrooms.
Beyond its possibilities as a low-carbon and light-weight material in bio-design, mycelium illuminates the question: how can we collectively build a more symbiotic future?
Mentors: Olga Beatrice Carcassi, Lola Ben-Alon, Ignacio G. Galán
Collaborators: Columbia University GSAPP Natural Materials Lab, Columbia Nano Initiative, Anagha Guliam, Djassi DaCosta Johnson, MYCRO Magazine, Kali Mushrooms
Open hours, drop-ins welcome:
Saturday, May 4th | 12 PM - 5 PM
Sunday, May 5th | 2 PM - 8 PM
Panel and Co-Learning Session | 5 PM - 7 PM (RSVP encouraged — Max. capacity 40 people)
Monday, May 6th | 12 PM - 5 PM
Panel discussion and co-learning session on Sunday, May 5th from 5 to 7 pm ET. Join for conversations with researchers in architecture, material design, food science, and the arts.
The panel will have an ASL interpreter. If you have access needs that you would like to share for the event, please email gjs2149@barnard.edu, optimally with at least a week's notice.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.
Grace Schleck (Barnard College ‘24, Architecture) is a senior architecture student at Barnard. During her student artist residency with the Movement Lab, Grace worked with the Columbia GSAPP Natural Materials Lab to explore mycelium as a moving material.
For a glimpse into her creative world, you can learn more about her photography at https://graceschleck.myportfolio.com/.