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- | === Go Ask A Mushroom === | ||
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- | Musings on mycelial collaborations and (perma)culture | ||
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- | By Natalia Borissova | ||
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- | What possible intelligent natural systems can we look to for guidance and inspiration in the patterning of our human living environments, | ||
- | Granted, there’s nothing new in assigning to the “artist” the multifunctional role of a “mushroom, | ||
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- | ===Spawning the resilium=== | ||
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- | Looking at forestry, farming and permaculture of natural systems, mycelia links all the elements of these environments together, redistributes resources according to need, converts rock into food for other species, increases soil depth and richness (like an ingenious farmer or a mushroom-engineer). Mycelia does cardinal, life-enhancing work on a grassroots, upside-down level (like a good artist). And when the conditions are right, the mycelia’s multifarious fruits rise up overnight, feeding critters, opening minds, bestowing the world with beauty, and seeding other mycelial systems. | ||
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- | By analogy with mycelia as the vegetal part of a fungal culture, a “resilients-organism” (“resilium”) could be compared with a mycorrhizal fungus which spreads out widely through time and space, popping up in the most unexpected places to spark joyful illuminations. It adsorbs reality upside down, digests it externally by freely relishing enzymes of knowledge, and makes it available for other organisms to feast on. Efforts of the resilium need to be focused on the cultivation of healthy soil (aka a non-discriminative and co-creative environment), | ||
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- | ===From self-sustaining ecosystems to growing cultural communities=== | ||
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- | What layout or design of our environment-gardens could be “nature-logical”? | ||
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- | When each individual organism has multiple roles and interconnections within this kind of ecosystem, edges can be optimised and resources reused. Problems, limitations and mistakes can be embraced creatively, and the environment thrives. There is no need to impose connections from the outside, as each of the ecosystem’s parts is self-organising. The design of this interconnected, | ||
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- | If we believe that cultural communities are real and not merely constructs used for formal and pragmatic convenience, | ||