What is Mushroom Sculpt?

Mushroom Sculpt is an exciting project using an emerging eco-material made from fungus, using waste products like straw and paper to make “mycelial blocks”.

Mushroom Sculpt will take scrap cardboard - donated by The Bound - and use it to build a pop-up bookshop inside The Biscuit Factory for the Late Shows. A bookshop grown from bookshop waste!

Award winning design...

Designed by Stuart Macalister of the award-winning architect firm Heatherwick Studios, the installation promises to captivate visitors with its innovative fusion of art, sustainability, and literature in what the team believes to be the first interpretation of this material into a functioning 'bookshop' structure.

More than a bookshop

Curated by Helen Stanton of Forum Books, the bookshop installation will feature a carefully curated collection of literary titles. Visitors can expect an immersive experience as they explore the intersection of literature and sustainable architecture within the unique fungal environment.

Underground Kingdom - The Illustrated Lab

Accompanying the installation will be an exibition of selected limited edition prints taken from new children's book 'Underground Kingdom'. In collaboration with the artist, Jenni Colquhoun of The Illustrated Lab; the book is a poetic exploration of a fungus life-cycle.

A family reading of The Underground Kingdom will take place on 30 May, with the opportunity for you to contribute to the final edit of the forthcoming book!