Biofabrication and myco-materials

Biofabrication and recycling with fungi

Biofabrication is a rapidly growing industry that aims to replace plastics and other unsustainable materials with renewable and biodegradable materials. This mixed-delivery course will cover everything you need to know to get started in the industry. It includes the fundamentals of mycology, cultivating fungi, laboratory work with fungi and biofabrication of sustainable materials. The course has 10 hours of theoretical components, 10 hours of practical components on general laboratory work and growing fungi and a further 10 hours of practical components focussing specifically on biofabrication.

We are running this course together with our partner organisations Haddon Community Learning Centre and myco-materials company Fungi Solutions. You will get an opportunity to work in a laboratory that produces many different types of myco-materials for professional clients.

Theory component:
Every Tuesday at 6pm from February 1 – April 5

Practical component (at Fungi Solutions in Thornbury):
12pm-4pm Saturdays February 12th and 26th, March, 12th and 26th and April 9th

Ten funded places are available for people who are:

• Over 16
• Not attending school
• Living in Victoria
• Agree to fill in the ACFE form and provide a Medicare number (as proof of ID)

Course fee: $200 (including course and amenities fees)
Payment plans can be arranged if need be. For more info contact mycommunity@myco.org.au

Your teachers:
 

Amanda Morgan is founder and Director of Research at biofabrication company Fungi Solutions. She studied design at RMIT and has an Honours in mycomaterials. At Fungi Solutions we believe that collaborative partnerships, supporting community outcomes and careful custodianship of our delicate natural resources is the best way to care for the land and people. We would like to deepen our relationship with country and ensure that our mission to produce clean circular material solutions is conducted with respect for and in consultation with indigenous regenerative practices.

Ema Corro has a Bachelor of Applied Science from RMIT and has researched mycomaterials in her honours project. She has been growing and foraging for mushrooms for 7 years. She is coordinator of MYCOmmunity Applied Mycology as well as the Wild Fungi DNA project which is developing environmental DNA techniques that citizen scientists can use to search for rare and endangered fungi.