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PAPERS: More than Human Climate Learning: Systems, Translation and Regeneration Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Stockholm University Session Chair: Heitlinger Sara, University of London, UK | |
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Co-creating with fungi: mycelium toys and pedagogies for regenerative futures 1: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria; 2: Mycotech Lab, Bandung Indonesia This practice-based research project presents BLX, a series of mycelium-based educational toys. Shaped like inflated building blocks, BLX invites children (early years to primary education) to construct playful structures whilst materialising biological and anthropogenic circularity through design. Unlike plastic toys that embody permanence, BLX can be played with, composted, or repurposed as plant pots—rendering regenerative processes tangible. Drawing on speculative design and material studies, the project positions mycelium as both educational medium and more-than-human collaborator. By embracing decay as (re-)generative, BLX challenges material cultures of permanence and offers children embodied encounters with temporality and transformation. This contribution is threefold: methodological by designing with living materials for pedagogy, conceptual by reframing temporality as pedagogical, and material by emancipating mycelium as an educational agent. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.604
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