Festival Reino Fungi 2026 takes place in Pucón, Chile, from 30 April to 3 May, bringing together scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and local communities around the theme of decomposition as a force for regeneration. The fifth edition builds on the 2025 event, which drew more than 10,000 attendees, and expands its international reach with speakers from Argentina, Colombia and beyond. The festival frames fungal intelligence as a model for rethinking innovation, culture and ter

Graphic design has long operated under an unspoken assumption: that printed materials should endure. Posters weather seasons on hoardings; textiles persist in landfill for decades. Yet the messages they carry are often redundant within days. This tension sits at the heart of GROWinK, a project developed by Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet , a Thai designer completing the MA Material Futures programme at Central Saint Martins in London. Credits: Punxh Punxh's background is in product

MycoWorks has ended as we once knew it. The company has changed hands, with none of the founding team remaining affiliated with it. I would like to share my view of a long arc. Before the Before MycoWorks began, like so many things in San Francisco during the late eighties, with mutual aid. The pot clubs of that era were community initiated health clinics, and a good representation of that ethos. Marijuana was offered alongside a constellation of other remedies: acupuncture,

The Fungi Film Festival, now in its 6th edition, showcases 16 films from 8 countries exploring mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi beyond typical infection narratives

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Refugee-led initiatives in Uganda and Kenya are training thousands in low-cost mushroom cultivation, creating revenue streams through products ranging from oyster mushroom coffee to medicinal skincare African mushroom entrepreneurs challenge persistent misconceptions that fungi cannot be cultivated, demonstrating that mushroom farming offers faster income generation and better climate resilience than traditional crops With 1.5 bi