Name: あなたの未来にある菌類 (The Fungi in Your Future)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:38:38.000Z
Duration: 5 min 23 s
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LUKE GROSKIN: The lowly mushroom, a primordial growth

sprouting from decay, perhaps a tiny morsel

We may find the humble fungus has much to provide.

PHILIP ROSS: As a designer and a thinker about form and space,

They can take our greatest resource, which is human waste,

and turn that into something that's really valuable for us.

They have the ability to give us everything that we want.

and he's the Chief Technology Officer of the San Francisco

based startup MycoWorks, a company seeking to harness

LUKE GROSKIN: Things that seem obvious upon reflection.

behind me is actually the hide or the skin of a type

so it's more how fast can we keep up with the organism.

LUKE GROSKIN: By comparison, a piece of cowhide the same size

PHILIP ROSS: And that takes a lot of resources

Our materials start off as agricultural waste, corn cobs,

hemp hurds, paper pulp waste, rice hulls, sawdust.

So all these bags of white stuff behind me

that's the mushroom that is eating the sawdust.

can see the encroaching network of cells that

LUKE GROSKIN: These cells are known as mycelium.

PHILIP ROSS: Mushroom mycelium is the root-like fibers

that grow underground that are part of a mushroom.

LUKE GROSKIN: It's out of these colonies of mycelium

PHILIP ROSS: In this thing, has the diversity of types

of materials that you ultimately can create things that

look like they're enameled, that look like insect skin,

that are kind of soft and leathery, things

that are porous, and all these really different expressions

of the organism are all part of the same thing.

LUKE GROSKIN: And by manipulating various conditions

you can transform mycelium from its basic state.

PHILIP ROSS: We give the mushroom types of food

And then the other things we do is manipulate

its immediate environment, its temperature, the humidity

levels, the amount of light, and then the exchange of gas.

to be a more than perfect leather substitute.

going to have benefits that will be unlike other things

that you're going to have patterns and colors that would

be impossible with actual animal hides and qualities that

So we can grow fasteners directly into ours,

we don't have to use glue necessarily, or even seaming.

It is breathable, similar to animal leather.

It's water wicking, and it's naturally antibiotic.

This is without any chemistry added into it at all.

some stylish prototypes, but they're still

testing various aspects of its production.

with this material for about three months,

and so we started first to test it for tensile strength.

from being as strong or stronger than lamb, sheep, and synthetic

leather, and now we actually have it as strong as deerskin.

LUKE GROSKIN: And while they're touting its strength,

MycoWorks has no plans to stop at leather.

PHILIP ROSS: Another thing that these types of mushrooms

here can make are kind of synthetic woods.

This thing that started off as waste sawdust

PHILIP ROSS: This chair that I'm sitting in, the walnut

we transformed that with a local version of this mushroom

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