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Let's Become Fungal!

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Let's Become Fungal!

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Twelve lessons in fungal activism, Indigenous knowledge and collaboration for artists, gardeners, educators and anyone intrigued by the fascinating life and inspiring metaphors of the mycelium and the mushroom.

The enormous popular interest in the world of fungi and the mycelium testifies to its tremendous resonance as a metaphor for new ways of thinking, new systems and behaviors. Taking its inspiration from this world, Let's Become Fungal! looks at a range of Indigenous practices from Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency--all suggestive of the behavior of the mycelium. Each of the book's 12 chapters offers teachings on collaboration, decoloniality, nonlinearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death and being nonbinary, while also examining the world of fungi. Let's Become Fungal! shows how fungi can inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policymakers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community leaders, farmers and others to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez (born 1984) works as a curator and researcher on art and ecology, and is based in Mexico City. She has founded and directed many international initiatives at the intersection of art and ecology, including the Green Art Lab Alliance (Asia, Latin America and Europe) and the Nature Research Department, the Van Eyck Food Lab, and the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL).

CURATED BY PICTURE BOOK:

Picture Book is an independent bookstore inside the co-working and event space HudCo in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Created in 2020 by Sara Davidson Johns, you can often find The Floral Society team perusing her thoughtfully curated collection of books a few times a week!

After a career in the Contemporary Art world, Sara is excited by curating books, and loves sharing that with her neighbors in the Rivertowns. Sara lives with her husband and two daughters in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Find the best books for your kids with ease from the curated selection, while also discovering your own grown up “picture book” -a gorgeous cookbook, hot new novel, or a stunning monograph on a Contemporary artist. Shop the full collection here.

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