Ometeotl - ARC - Computational Framework for Fabricating with Sustainable Living Materials

This project aims to develop a computational framework founded on the growth characteristics of mycelia to enable scalable and consistent re-manufacturing with organic waste. As well as the uses of the material through design practices.

Fundamental advances made in the proposed project will directly influence follow-up research in computational fabrication, microbiology, design, fabrication and graphics. The project will deliver significant scientific advances, creating new knowledge and models characterising mycelia growth and hyphal fusion, methodological advances to sustainable
remanufacturing with living materials, and new algorithms and tools in computational fabrication leading to multiple research outputs and intellectual properties. The multi-disciplinary nature of the project will influence other relevant fields of research, such as digital fabrication, computer graphics, design, architecture and agriculture.

• Investigators

  • • Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga, Monash Art, Design and Architecture
    • Dr Anusha Withanage Don, The University of Sydney
    • A/Prof Michael Kertesz, The University of Sydney
    • Dr Phillip Gough, The University of Sydney
    • A/Prof Katia Vega, University of California, Davis