Pick a material and read it with care, on its own terms. A new Reading joins the shelf every week.
MattersNew Reading every week
01MyceliumThe grown composite. The threads and the wall that hold it together, and why it is deactivated to become a product.Read this matter →
02Algae & cyanobacteriaThe blue in spirulina, and the carbon a living culture draws in. Two behaviours that ask very different things of you.Read this matter →
03BacteriaThe kombucha pellicle and its cellulose, the bacterial colour that carries no pigment, and the other things bacteria build.Read this matter →
04FibresSpider silk seen at the protein, and the fruit that makes the brightest colour in nature with no pigment.Read this matter →
05Bio-cementSand bound into stone at room temperature by a single enzyme.Read this matter →
06Slime mouldThe single cell that finds its way through a maze, and the molecular signals that move it.Read this matter →
07MicrobiomeThe communities in soil, in a ferment, and over every surface of a human body, and what they do together that none of them does alone.Read this matter →
08OtherThe uncommon and the in-between, materials that don't sit neatly in one group yet.Read this matter →
