can mushroom join the future of design industry?

designing in the future may bring an abundance of potential materials. many vegan alternatives that are environmentally friendly to use are highly attractive to designers and researchers. these includes cellulose, algae, sunflower, leaf leather, and mushroom…… ?

yes, mushroom! the fungus kingdom.

do you know that aside from being the best umami-rich alternative to meat, the plant has been blooming for over a billion years, making it possibly join the evolution of the design industry in the future.

say…. home appliances, wallpaper and flooring materials, or even a facade made of mushroom material.. who knows if hundreds of years from now, our future generation will have a mushroom-based house, or a similar to the mushroom head-shaped roof made of the material itself, where they live underneath.

just…. maybe?

but the possibility is here since mushrooms already have their moment over the past decade.

mycelium, which refers to the white threads or the vegetative part of a fungus, has attracted designers in many ways to create a variant of home products such as…