MYCOFOUNDRY PRESENTS AT ANCHORAGE DESIGN WEEK

This past February, three of MycoFoundry’s co-founders were invited to attend Anchorage Design Week hosted by the Anchorage Museum. 

Design Week is a yearly event that brings together community members and creatives to imagine the future of place-based design that supports the lifeways of Northern regions.

This year, the presentations and seminars focused on sustainable materials and practices as an avenue of promoting community connections and challenging designers to reimagine their practices in the context of the rapidly changing climate. 

Under this theme, MycoFoundry co-founder and Director of the University of British Columbia’s Biogenic Architecture Lab (BAL), Joseph Dahmen, presented some recent projects including the BAL’s mycelium-based waste-separating toilet installation and MycoFoundry’s development of biobased acoustic wall panels for the construction industry.

Other notable presentations included a keynote by Carson Chan, Director of the Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

We want to extend a big thank you to our hosts at the Anchorage Museum, as well as the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Biomaterials Lab for making this trip possible!