What can this extraordinary organism enable us to build, to mitigate, to express, to imagine?

Members examine the affordances of the fungus—whether formal or literal. Speakers will consider fungi—and/or their components: mushrooms, mycelium, or the mycelium’s individual filaments, the hyphae—as protagonists in diverse domains such as literary form, rhetorical fictionality, ecology, climate pedagogy, computing, eco-art, speculative fiction, posthumanism, collectives, and emergent storytelling.  

Creatively exploring the affordances of the fungus—itself a boundary-defying, taxonomically “problematic” creature—can shape cross-disciplinary research and offer solutions with wide-ranging applications.