Tallinn Architecture Bienniale 2022 explored architectural strategies of local production and self-sufficiency, but also, operations that use by-products of urban life, replacing the traditional linear systems with circular ones that aim to limit material and resource loss.

Bienniale titeled “Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism” curated by Lydia Kallipoliti, Areti Markopoulou in collaboration with Chief Local Advisor Ivan Sergejev.

Our installation for the main exhibition was called “Interface Organism” a term coined by the legendary Paul Stamets who describes fungi as the great recyclers of our planet, disassembling large organic molecules into simpler forms, which in turn are useful for the other members of the ecological community.

To showcase the duality between life and death that fungi embody, our installation consisted of elements that are inert and usable as building materials and parts that are still growing and alive.???? Through out the exhibition visitors could see the material develop before their eyes.

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