MYX – Jonas Edvard – (Denmark)

9 October 2018

Kingdom: Vegetabile.

//Description

“MYX consist of plant fibre and mushroom-mycelium. The material is grown into shape during a period of two to three weeks, where the mushroom mycelium grows together the plant fibres into a flexible and soft living textile. After two weeks, you can harvest the healthy Oyster mushrooms. The waste product can then be dried and used as a lightweight material, that is both organic, compostable and sustainable.

The mushroom mycelium stabilizes the construction by physically growing together the material behaving as a glue between the fibres. The MYX consists of waste – the mushroom organism comes from a commercial mushroom farm and the plant fibres is a leftover material from the textile industry, MYX is an optimized end-waste product with a nutritious food product during the growing cycle.” (Edvard, 2014)

Material Qualities

Kingdom Attributes

Organic
Natural
Fredom of Shape
Textured
Honest
Wrinkled
Matte

Specific Material Attributes

Aggressive
Extravagant
Uncomfortable
Dense
Bumpy
Freform
Covering
Fluid
Disgust
Pleasant Surprise

Basic Ingredients

Oyster Farmed Mycelium
Plant filaments

Contact

Studio Jonas Edvard

T +45 29845273

info@jonasedvard.dk

www.jonasedvard.dk

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Images property of the material owners.

-Edvard, J., (2014) MYX. Retrieved from http://jonasedvard.dk/work/myx/