MIT mushrooms pop up in São Paulo

The 32nd So Paulo Biennale, due to open on 10 September (until 10 December), will play host to an installation of objects created by an unusual designer: the vegetative fungus mycelium. Students and professors at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grew the fungusstudied as an alternative to plasticto create objects that aim to consider the role of cross-species technologies and our interaction with them, explains Laura Knott, the consulting