Exciting news on the way – We are currently building our Bioknit Prototype Nr. 4 #The Growing Room. A three-metre high architecture composed of fungal mycelium […]
From light pollution to e-waste and healthy ageing to biomaterials, the Festival of Futures at Lancaster University is all set to show how design research can […]
In January 2024 Living Textiles welcomed visiting researcher Jan Konicek from FUA Technical University Liberec to The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment. Working alongside […]
The Living Textiles Research Group has been established as a core research theme for the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment. Living Textiles, led by […]
Visit our work at Edinburgh Science Festival this year! HBBE is present with several exhibition pieces in the main atrium of the National Museums Scotland on […]
How can the intersection of textile practices, biofabrication, and computation disrupt industrial construction processes to deliver scalable solutions for regenerative architecture? Materialised through a textile logic, […]
This paper investigates the design potential of monolithically grown Mycelium-based Composites (MBCs), focusing on integrating 3D knitted formworks within the fabrication process. Mycelium has gained attention […]
The Living Room is a mycelium-knit biohybrid architecture that consists of an exposed knitted formwork on the interior and a smooth mycelium plaster on the exterior, […]