Collet, Carole (2019) Mycelium Textiles. [Art/Design Item]
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Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | Collet, Carole |
Description: | Mycelium Textiles (2015-2019) consists of a connected series of experimental textile design prototypes that explore the potential of bio-based mycelium techniques combined with textiles to develop new bio-integrated processes for sustainable textile fabrication and embellishment. Situated within the emergent biodesign practice for future sustainable design and manufacturing (Myers 2012), this project investigates the possibilities of integrating and controlling the living dynamic properties of mycelium into the textile design process, and of combining traditional textile craft know-how with the production of mycelium material to develop sustainable textile embellishment techniques for a post-petrol textile industry. Whilst in the past decade research in this field has focused on fabrication via mycelium-based materials (e.g. Phil Ross; Maurizio Montalti) or the fabrication of new soft mycelium materials (Aniela Hoitink), Mycelium Textiles at the time of development and first dissemination applies mycelium to develop bio-based sustainable surface treatment and embellishments for textiles. Accordingly this project has expanded the use of mycelium in relation to textile finishing research. Techniques such as mending, starching, and resist-patterning, pleating, binding and coating have been re-interpreted and adapted to a new context of use where living mycelium cultures interact with inert textile materials using a methodology that hybridises traditional textile craft techniques with lab-grown mycelium materials. This has resulted in the production of the self-patterning mycelium rubber, the production of a permanent pleating process at ambient temperature for cotton, the tie-dye mycelium textile on cotton, the development of an embroidery-like patterning effect on cotton, and the use of mycelium as a binding agent to assemble mixed textile materials to create a lace-like textile technique. Dissemination occurred at the Pompidou Centre (2019), The Saint Etienne Design Biennale, Synbitech 2019 and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2016), Germany. |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Biodesign |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Date: | 2019 |
Related Websites: | https://www.opencell.bio/biodesignherenow/synbitech, https://www.biennale-design.com/saint-etienne/2019/fr/programmation/?event=terrains-d-entente-143 |
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Related Exhibitions: | https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/c5nxa8r, https://biotopia.net/en/biotopia-lab/popupexhibition |
Related Publications: | ‘Grow-made Textiles’, Alive, Active, Adaptive, EKSIG 2017, International Conference organized under the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG). The New Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 19-20, 201, Chapter 8, Biotextiles: Evolving Textile Design Practices for the Bioeconomy and the Emerging Organism Industry in Soft Landing, CUMULUS THINK TANK. Edited by Nithikul Nimkulrat, Ulla Ræbild, Anna Piper, Le Biodesign, un cataliseur d’innovation ecologique pour l ‘industrie textile? P.117-128 in: Brayer, M.A; Zeitoun, O (eds). La Fabrique du Vivant, Mutations Creations.Pompidou Centre and Hyxx publishings, 2019. ISBN 978-237382-014-0, Biotextiles Making textiles in a context of climate and biodiversity emergency, Biodesign and the Allure of “Grow-made” Textiles: An Interview with Carole Collet |
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Martin Gropius Bau, Germany 30 September 2016 8 January 2017 Pompidou Centre, France 20 February 2019 15 April 2019 Saint Etienne Design Biennale, France 21 March 2019 22 April 2019 Synbitech 2019, London 24 June 2019 25 June 2019 Biotopia Museum, Germany March 2021 November 2021 |
Material/Media: | mycelium, waste marterials, textiles |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2021 15:15 |
Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2021 09:18 |
Item ID: | 15544 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/15544 |
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