MYCOsella, Growing the Mycelium Chair - Manufacture Process Time-Lapse Video
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2019
- BA Architecture Dissertation
Time-Lapse Video Appendix
The video is a record of the manufacture process; an attachment to my dissertation work "MYCOsella- Growing the Mycelium Chair"
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The project is exploring mycelium as a composite material, by understanding and challenging its growth processes through the various forms and chair typologies.
This is an in-progress WIP record of the processes of the chair's assemblage.
For the results of the experimentation, find me on Instagram: @nataliapiorecka
or check out my dissertation.
To read more: issuu.com/nataliapiorecka/doc... 
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I really admire your dedication and love the final chairs! I saw a company trying to use mycelium to replace the foam used to make surf-boards, this is a much more environmentally friendly way I think the world needs people like you folks.
Extremely impressive, I have been amazed with mycelium as a material since I learned about it, as an architecture student i can't tell you how much good would this material do to mitigate pollution from traditional materials like concrete and clay bricks.
Exactly, right! I am doing architecture myself and it definitely has the potential to be implemented within the buildings. It is slowly getting there! 😊
When you fail something, you start over. You repeat this cycle until you reach success.
@@nc3826 my stomach needs meat:) weird I can't see this video no more, it's blocked in my country
Good luck getting your video watching privileges back...
FWIW the phrase is just "figure of speech"
Thanks for this valuable documentary. Too many of the tutorials on RUclips make it look like mycelium wrangling is easy, but the truth is there are lots of ways for things to go wrong. My only suggestion is that a picture of you sitting in the chair would have been the perfect ending. BTW you should get a grant from IKEA for showing the versatility of their products.
I love how you showed all the process and you dedication is amazing mashaallah. I wanted to try growing mycelium in the summer break and this video is really motivating and helpful. Thank you!
This vid is way too underrated. So badass!
Aww thank you. I wasn't really planning on filming it for any yt purposes, so its just a record of in progress videos of the growth that I decided to compile, so big thank you for the appreciation! 😊
Awesome video and experiment guys... Thx for doing this.
Artist to artist, I love mycelium and plan on growing it on fabric!
Muchas gracias por poner información valiosa en un video y hip hop sonando de fondo. Fascinante lo que hacen. Saludos desde Argentina.
You were really patient with it, Im impressed
Thank you, I did earlier some material testing so I knew that at some point it will succeed. I was looking if similar result would be achievable using other technique and in different conditions. 😁
Wow! Great project! I'm looking forward to where you move this idea! Very inspirational to me.
Thanks! That's really nice to hear, I am definitely not planning to leave it like that 😊
Excelente
Me encanta que hayan compartido todo el proceso experimental. Con aciertos y desaciertos. La perseverancia y la incorporar de variables fue genial
Hey, awesome video! Great tenacity in making mycelium furniture. Definitely inspirational :)
That's my kind of chair. Very cool project!
i love you Natalia! such an inspiration, thanks
Haha cute. I am pleased to hear that 😊
You are so talented...great job giiirl!!
Thank you for sharing your process!
awesome! great work!
You totally rock!!
Amazing! Thanks so much for showing this! I know that some mushroom farmers use lye to repel mold because oyster mushrooms can survive very high PH levels whereas mold cannot. I saw a tutorial where they brought water up to a PH of (I think) 12 (I think they said 12-13 range was fine, maybe 11-13), then used that to wet the substrate before adding the mycelium. They said it could decrease your mushroom yields (but that there was also some debate about that), but if you are not growing the mycelium for mushrooms it could be good.
Edit: I think they specified that it was builders lye, and that some types of lye could be harmful to the mushrooms.
great! :) Amazing how many failures you have made before you succeded :)
Great experiment and lots of patience on your side. What was the mushroom that worked best in those last 3 chairs? was it still the oyster mushroom or something else? Great music also.
One moment my brain just fell out my head 😔 oh dang , kudos of having some fun best wishes 🥂✨
Wow, lot's of work and determination. I also had mold problems when not using sterilization and moisture control. Wondering how to make surfboard blanks without the plastic wrap?
Amazing!
I'm impressed by the amount of plastic you used
Pretty much most of of despite the foil obviously and the final chair mould was reused packaging...
Where can I get ecovative dehydrated mushroom material?
very interesting project. it'd be good to get a feel for the firmness of the substrate colonized mycellium , or the structural properties to design some other cool furniture
It's dealing suprisingly well with the load! Happened that I had my dinner sitting on them and they survived untouched 😊
I assume that as long as you could get it to grow well, it could have a really amazing results with good structural potential!
Apart from Cardboard and the Oyster Mushrooms, what was that other thing in the bag, you put in the tub?
My knees hurt just from watching this.
The easy and less contamination is straw as subtrate.
Would replacing the flour with powdered millet improve the growth rate? I’ve heard flour isn’t a desired nutrient for most myc even though it is technically a grain.
if possible can you give some idea about the flour added to the subtract. As I am running a farm, just eager to know. one more thing, is this possible to grow with oyster mushroom...
is the mycelium mesh strong enough? a follow up video would be great!
Yes, they are actually fully functional chairs. I shall publish more of the results definately.
The final outcome is on Instagram: @nataliapiorecka
I keep updating it slowly 😊
So feel free to have a look if you are intetested.
This is amazing! I was wondering what your thoughts are on different substrate materials after going through all this? Also what type of mushroom were you using?
I would say to explore and understand the material and its possibility with different options. It is so broad with both the mushroom species and substrates. Also, be patient. Back when I worked on that project I didn't have enough time to test all the different aspects and I am coming back to those initial thoughts now. Other way is to concentrate on one and master it. 😊👍
I used Ganoderma in this one
@@nataliapiorecka4448 Very cool! Thanks for the quick reply. I think i've heard good things about oyster mushrooms and their aggressive growth so I will go from there! My hope is to be able to make mycelium based cups 🙂
@@midi.neutron Yeap, Oysters are good to start with!
very cool project! to dry it you left it in open air?
Yeap, next to the radiator.
Your not sterilizing anything with boiling water, you are pasteurizing it. There is a difference and this is where your contamination’s come from.
How to sterilize then?
Kudos for the patience...
The final result looks great - how are you stabilizing the mycelium after it's done, so that it doesn't keep growing and become black?
Also, this reminded me of tempeh - did you try with tempeh culture as well?
Thanks! The stabilization was provided by drying the sturcture out. Drying stops the mycelium from further growth and solidifies the whole structure. As long as the mycelium is not growing anymore, the colours doesn't change as well. 😉
@@nataliapiorecka4448 Very nice are you continuing to work on this? is there any place where I can see the final products?
@@anandrmnn Yes, you can see it on my instagram instagram.com/nataliapiorecka/
or u can find a document about it in here: issuu.com/nataliapiorecka
@@nataliapiorecka4448 FYI the issuu link isnt working anymore
What purpose does the shroom chair have? Is it for garden gnomes? Because that would be so cute.
Yes, as the material mix is engineered to be safe it could be used as both indoor and outdoor chair. I would just add that as an outdoor chair it would need some care to keep it in relatively dry environment, as exposed for the environmental factors the chair would start to degrade at some point. 😊
I was expecting mushrooms to grow at the end
Hah sorry for that, some of them started to grow on the chair surface, however they didn't fully developed because of drying the chair out.
They would probably continue to grow if the chair would continue to grow 😁😜
@@nataliapiorecka4448 do you know what kind of mushrooms they were? Oysters? Reishi?
@@nataliapiorecka4448 nvm i found your other comment where you say you used Ganoderma.
@@ETripsOfficial Reishi 😉
Did you try to sit on it or use it after that?
Oysters are a wood loving mushroom, I'm surprised the wood chair(#3) didnt work, maybe if you made a hard wood substrate instead of cardboard it would have held or maybe putting some chicken wire in the middle and some sticks placed vertically, kinda like concrete, idk this is so cool btw, good job
Which type of mushroom spawn used..
so cool! any updates?
There must a step by step instructions all over the internet
Is it strong to sit ?
Lovely, great job Natalia~!! As a fellow maker I know how though and time consuming it can be, you give me inspiration or showed me something I didn't know it could be done, mushroom chair next? :P jk greets Daan
IKEA must love u 🤔
Will it be possible to apply layer of varnish or resin? Or does this defeat the whole biodegradable vibe?
Sure it does
so much contamination
That's what happens when your new to mushrooms, have no lab or sterile place available, but balcony. And you still really want to give it a try in the DIY at home.
Geez this comment might be coming super late and somebody might have already said it but if you use a different mushroom type like reishi you might get better results.
Reishi like to create a very hard leather like skin around the substrate media
in indonesia Mycelium combine with soy, be a food called tempeh
U needed to keep it wet and warm
At about 18:40 you see the person push the chair down, and it’s pretty weak. I assume that’s the reason there wasn’t a demonstration at the end
No, it is actually rigid, durable and works pretty well as a chair. FYI the video shows only the process of making, as stated in the description.
If you want to see the result you can go to my ig where I posted results -> @nataliapiorecka
O delírio da gata 🙀
I'm sure there was good info on this video but I gave up trying to read it. White letters don't work to well on a white background just my 2 cents
I know, apologies for that. It was more of a process video, so it could have been better presented definitely!
Until next, better one! 😊
All I know is you have hella mushrooms
😂👍
this is great stuff, disregard all the nah Sayers, this old Sorcerer understands gods flesh as we call it, it's truly alien nature's, it's incredible building capabilities, but you should of asked one of us knowledgeable in substrates, we could have saved you tons of wasted time.... some day you'll grow a new house that feeds you, filters contamination and more ,someday...
but I think I will start a homegrown house company ...
That's the exciting future! 😁 Actually, when I was starting the project last year, I wasn't aware of how many available materials are and how many people are involved! It's great to discover that so many people are into it.
About the developing the material, I could have done it better milion times probably. But as first exploration and first touch with the material it worked quite well. I got super into it 😜😄
@@robertlavedas4964 I am more of a designer than biologist actually so give me a shout if u need one in your company hahah! 😜😁😊👌
I will send or post or both, I'm going to Puerto Rico my only issue will be mold lol... I wonder about this, when we treat for termites we use a boric acid solution that basically crystalizes the wood that in becomes very hard to penetrate, and the crystalization is not palatable..... I wonder if it would do the same to dead mysilium? if you try before me (after April for me) please show... also have you tried a "S" magnetic field while propagation of mysilium? also I am going to try to find substance's that mycelium will tolerate or even symbiotic with, see maybe a truffle that uses a hard wood as not only a needed symbiosis but as structural support also, say in mycelium watercraft/catamaran....
also liquid substrates interest me, if we could achieve something akin to what is being done with airogel materials with mycelium then harden a computer designed lattice grown in magnetic fields to custom said mycelium could make spacecraft and armor too, you. all are not scientist's your Sorcerer's saying your science folk!
I hope maybe my Ideas give new thoughts.... but remember to be respectful of the gods flesh, thank it for dying for us, not like a hippie, but like a priest of truth, and of course some Beethoven playing for it and laughter makes it grow like nuts...lol
your are using hydrogen peroxide as a additional sanitation assist right?
No time left to clean house 🤦♀️
That's a stool not a chair
Stools and an Easy Chair
Camera too close to action, makes you feel ill, music just awful
I wasn't planning on filming that professionally originally so it's a collection of progress videos that I then quickly combined for the purpose of the project. Don't be too harsh, I will keep your comments in mind before I do any next one. 😉
Youre wearing gloves yet have the bag open to the air, completely pointless sterilizing then.
The gloves were more for protecting my hands from touching the spores in the material than sterilisation itself.😛 However they keept me from adding any any additional contamination.
The experiments from the very beginning were exposed for poor sterilisation condition, as they were not conducted in the lab and that was actually one of the main project objectives. 😁 And it worked 😛
Your time lapse is horrible for my epilepsy
Hah sorry for that, hope you survived it😜
@@nataliapiorecka4448 It was still a good video nonetheless
@@runningsloth3324 Thank you 🤭😊
Great ideas, horrible video