ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the contributions made by a seminar called MycoMatters, which introduced graduate level architecture students to the craft of growing structures with fungi-based materials. Although mycelium's inherent structural, isolative, and fire-resistant properties suggest it is possible, beyond imaginative pavilions no one has yet grown an entire house out of mycelium. The central charge of the seminar was that innovation with this material is possible and to that end, focused on craft, design, and fabrication with mycelium-composite materials in the context of residential building structures. Students gained intuition for growing myco-materials, learned to conduct focused material and structural experiments, and built numerous prototypes of increasing scale.
