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From the Molecule Up
The Reading Room
Welcome back. Pick a material and read it with care, on its own terms. A new Reading joins the shelf every two weeks.
Some properties you can take from a material. Some you have to keep in place. Some you have to tend, kept alive, for as long as the thing you make is meant to last. Part of every read is knowing which, and what that asks of you.
Materials
New Reading every two weeks
Mycelium
The grown composite. The threads and the wall that hold it together, and why it is killed to become a product.
Algae & cyanobacteria
Bacteria
The kombucha pellicle and its cellulose, the bacterial colour that carries no pigment, and the other things bacteria build.
Fibres
Spider silk seen at the protein, and the fruit that makes the brightest colour in nature with no pigment.
Bio-cement
Sand bound into stone at room temperature by a single enzyme.
Slime mould
The single cell that finds its way through a maze, and the molecular signals that move it.
Other
The uncommon and the in-between, materials that don't sit neatly in one group yet.
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Read one living material with care, then meet the next on its own terms.
