Katapult Future Fest - Fungi Exploration Workshop

Last week, The Future is Fungi Award hosted a fungal exploration workshop at Katapult Future Fest in Oslo.

We wanted to inspire to, and hold space for open imagination and radical creativity. Let people tap into both sides of their brains to come up with some rather novel ideas on how fungi can help solve some of our environmental challenges 🍄 We asked the question “If you could save the world with fungi, what would you make”? 🌎

What better place to do that than Katapult! Katapult Future Fest in Oslo, Norway each year gathers forward thinking sustainability pioneers, futurists, entrepreneurs and investors globally, as well as curious travellers of life.

And wow, what ideas came up! We were blown away by the innovative thinking and ideas, and the eagerness to put it out there and share it with us all! ✨

Disclaimer: this session was not focusing on coming up with the most realistic and scalable idea, but rather to let the limitless creativity flow and allow a space for it to unfold.

Curious to know some of the innovative ideas coming out of the session?
Check this out!

🌱A global mycelium computer that connects us with nature - to monitor the status of nature + allow us to interact with nature.
🌱 Fungi as electricity - can we plug into the energy of the forest?
🌱Wastebins made of mycelium that also ‘eats’ the waste🤣
🌱Same with landfills eating themselves with fungi :-)
🌱 Boats made of mycelium that cleans the oceans on their way🌊
🌱Building new coral reefs using fungi as scaffolding

And so much more!
We hope these ideas can inspire you as well - what would you make with fungi?

Thanks to our co-organizers Norwegian Mycelium with COO Christopher Snyder and DOEN Foundation with Merijn ten Thije.

We are already excited for more fungal innovation exploration🍄

From the Fungi Exploration Session at Katapult Future Fest