Fungal activism, Indigenous knowledge, and collaborative curriculums—for artists, gardeners, educators, and anyone curious about the fascinating life of mycelium and fungi and their inspiring metaphors
The enormous popular interest the world of fungi and mycelia has generated testifies to its powerful resonance as a metaphor—a metaphor for new ways of thinking, for new modes of behavior. Let’s Become Fungal! draws on this world to explore diverse Indigenous practices in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. These practices stem from multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliance, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up approaches, and interdependence—all qualities that resonate deeply with the behavioral patterns of mycelia.
The book’s twelve chapters each offer lessons on topics such as collaboration, decolonization, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimesis, death, and non-binary existence, while delving deeper into the world of fungi. Let’s Become Fungal! shows how fungi have inspired artists, collectives, educators, policymakers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, curators, urban planners, activists, gardeners, community leaders, farmers, and many others to become more “fungal” in their work and ways of being.
