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Last week, I had the opportunity to present my PhD research and the MUSE project at the Design Research Society (DRS) Conference in Edinburgh. Beyond sharing my poster, the conference left me with a few reflections: → The language we use to describe living materials matters. → We still need stronger frameworks for evaluating and integrating biodesign into practice. → The field is growing rapidly, but there is still huge question: how we move from experimental projects towards meaningful real-world applications? It was inspiring to exchange ideas with researchers and designers from diverse disciplines and to see how biodesign and bio-integrated approaches are being positioned within the broader design landscape. A special thank you to @barbara.imhof and @granitegirl8 for the great company and many insightful conversations throughout the conference. What do you think is the biggest challenge for biodesign today? #DRS2026 #DesignResearch #BioDesign #BioIntegratedDesign #LivingMaterials taken in University of Edinburgh, Scotland by @nataliapiorecka
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a month ago
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Another collab. Another rethink. Today’s innovator, @nataliapiorecka , is growing furniture instead of making it 🌱 Introducing: the mycelium chair! Natalia’s MYCOsella Viridis turns agricultural waste into a durable, compostable seat using fungal roots. Why? Well, Europe alone discards 10.8 million tons of furniture every year, with most ending up in landfills. But with this solution less landfill, more life cycle ✅ ————— Whilst we have your attention, what are your thoughts on our Meet the Inventor series so far? Feeling inspired, curious, motivated? Do you have a good idea yourself? Please reach out to us or upload your idea FOR FREE directly on our page. Link in Bio 💚 #greeninnovation #greendesigner #circulareconomy #circulardesign #redoplease by @nataliapiorecka
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Jak to juz i podcastach to "back to 2023..." Ostatnio, przy okazji kolejnych rozmów i podcastów o biomateriałach, przypomniał mi się wyróżnienie z dosyc intensywnego roku 2023 - udział i wyróżnienie w programie „Jutronauci” organizowanym przez @gazeta_wyborcza i @incredibles_program_by_sk Sebastiana Kulczyka. 🌿 To było dla mnie wtedy duze wyróżnienie, znaleźć się w gronie młodych osób działających naukowo, projektowo, społecznie czy biznesowo wokół tematów przyszłości. Myślę, że był to też jeden z tych pięknych momentów, kiedy poczułam, że tematy, nad którymi pracuję - biomateriały, grzybnia, biodesign i projektowanie z żywymi organizmami zaczynają rezonować szerzej i stają się częścią większej dyskusji o przyszłości. 🍄🧪 Całe to doświadczenie przyniosło mi wtedy mnóstwo inspirujących rozmów, kontaktów i ogrom energii do dalszego działania. Jednym z efektów była również rozmowa z Joanną Sosnowską dla „Wyborczej” - jeden z moich pierwszych tak poważnych podcastów/interview po polsku o biomateriałach i projektowaniu przyszłości. Byl stresik jak talala I mimo, że stresik dalej mnie otacza to ciekawe wracać do takich momentów po kilku latach i widzieć, jak wiele od tamtego czasu się rozwinęło, zarówno w samych projektach, jak i we mnie samej (a wcale znowu tak duzo czasu nie minęło). Wiele rzeczy, które wtedy były jeszcze eksperymentem albo wizją, dziś stało się realnymi badaniami, prototypami, publikacjami, kursami czy długoterminowymi projektami badawczymi. Czasem jedno wyróżnienie, jedna rozmowa czy jeden podcast nie zmieniają wszystkiego od razu - ale mogą dać ogromną motywację, pewność i energię, żeby dalej konsekwentnie rozwijać swoje idee. I chyba właśnie to najbardziej pamiętam z tamtego czasu. 🌱 Jako, że Instagram jest pewnego rodzaju moim profeszynal pamiętnikiem to bede wracać tutaj do roznych eventow na co wcześniej nie bylo czasu 🫶💪 by @nataliapiorecka
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2 months ago
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Podcast jest już też na Spotify 🎙️✨ Więc jeśli ktoś przegapił live we @freirad_innsbruck albo ma ochotę posłuchać na spokojnie, to zapraszam 💚 Trochę o tym jak to kiedys bylam prezydentem, jak to grzyby przejęły moja codzienność, i o tym jak pierwsze pomysly rodzily się w akademiku w Newcastle (doslownie). Niepowtarzalna okazja usłyszeć troche o co tak naprawde ze mną chodzi 🍄🌱 Odcinek 25! 🫶💪 Zapraszam! Link w bio 🔗 by @nataliapiorecka
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Little announcement 🌿🎙️ W piątek o 19:00 wpada rozmowa ze mną w @freirad_innsbruck ✨ Po polsku z @polka_na_zagraniczu! 🇵🇱 Bedzie trochę o mnie, trochę o tym co robie, trochę architektury, designu i oczywiście grzybów 👀🍄 Będzie o projektach, pracy badawczej, eksperymentach i o tym, jak w ogóle znalazłam się w tym wszystkim. Jak macie ochotę posłuchać, to wpadajcie 💚 🔗Link w bio Albo łapcie nas na fali stacjonarnie: UKW 105,9 MHz, 89,6 MHz, 106,2 MHz. (Innsbruck i okolice) taken in Innsbruck, Austria by @nataliapiorecka
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3 months ago
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Intellectual travel bucket list ✅ From MIT to Harvard, Cornell, and GenSpace, what an experience the last USA visit brought me - but what truly made the last visit so exciting was the PEOPLE. 🫂🎓 Friends, colleagues, familiar faces intertwined across so many contexts, cities and disciplines: from courses like HTGAA, symposiums, collaborations, and common colleagues. One thing led to another. 🔁✨ A web of conversations, labs, ideas, and reunions that makes you feel connect - part of the community🙏 With each other year, I value the communities around the world I am surrounded with more and more and that trip was just an example of how strong it can grow and how important is to cherish it! 💪 Very grateful for these encounters, shared curiosity, and the energy that comes from the exchange and learning together. It was awesome to visit you all! 🌱 @mitmedialab @genspacenyc @howtogrowalmostanything @lifefabs by @nataliapiorecka
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6 months ago
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~2025~ Coming back — but from the other side 🌿 In 2025, I returned to @howtogrowalmostanything as a Teaching Assistant (TA). Supporting others while continuing to learn myself was a challenge, but left natural as part of the journey. I joined one of the laboratory nodes @lifefabs - in London, often tuning in from Innsbruck. They definitely cool guys! Teaching in this context isn’t about having all the answers - it’s about learning together, holding space for experimentation, and translating curiosity into practice. They beauty of discovery. It's been super fun to be part of such an exciting team from the @mitmedialab Very grateful for the trust and the opportunity to give back. And cheers to all 15h Final Presentations Zoom Meetings, filled with participants, TAs around the globe and presentations of all the cool ideas developed there 🥂 its definitely something special ✨ 📢 The applications for HTGAA 2026 are now open, find more: @howtogrowalmostanything and @davidsunkong by @nataliapiorecka
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6 months ago
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~ 2024 ~ Some journeys start quietly 🌱 I joined How To Grow (Almost) Anything as a student in 2024, driven by curiosity and a long-held fascination with genetics - almost a childhood dream of understanding how life works from the inside. 👷‍♀️👩‍🔬 Listening, experimenting, asking questions, and learning alongside others opened up an entirely new way of thinking about materials, systems, and living processes. What started as a curiosity project slowly became direction for my PhD! 🥊💥 Don't get me wrong its hella of a challenge as an architect to get into genetics. But the @howtogrowalmostanything with @davidsunkong Is doing it well! Grateful for a space that allowed me to begin this journey. by @nataliapiorecka
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Our "Image of Science", published in Zukunft Forschung magazine, captures something rare: 🕰️ visible imprints of time on a living material. A trace of growth, transformation, and biological rhythms unfolding beyond human control. Science doesn’t always freeze moments. Sometimes, it lets them breathe. by @nataliapiorecka
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As one of many "pushes" before the end of the year, I particpated in the UIBK PhD Symposium "Abstractions" organized by @0___more where I showed the updates in my PhD work. The positive comments came to my suprise, thinking I was a bit confused, not having enough to show, somehow chaotic, not "yet" ready - proved me wrong and showed that these "little pushes" are worth it! So if you are not sure if you should particpate in something or you feel like you dont have enough, just go for it, give it a try! You probably do have enough! 💪 Turned out a little motivatinal, but maybe somone will need it at the end of the year 😅 by @nataliapiorecka
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7 months ago
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🟠 Fungal Fruiting Forms What happens when we stop suppressing fruiting bodies growth in mycelium materials and instead design with it? This project explores the structural and aesthetic potential of fruiting bodies: mushrooms that emerge naturally during cultivation. By letting them grow, we discovered they can bio-weld elements together — forming rigid, living joints and rich surface textures. It’s a shift from suppressing fungi to collaborating with them inviting their full lifecycle into design. 🍄 The project is now exhibited as part of the Virtual Exhibition @cocoon.bio! 💚 Link 🔗 https://www.cocoon.bio/virtual-exhibit (also in bio) #mycelium #fruitingbodies #biodesign #biofabrication #mushroommaterials by @nataliapiorecka
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Space architecture activities at @integrative.design.extremes at the @uniinnsbruck featured in a first @orftirol broadcast @barbara.imhof @nataliapiorecka @judithaj15 @la.b.ve @lipkensa @simonsch28 @luigi_2_4_ Henning Doerfler 🔗https://on.orf.at/video/14303666/15999970/universitaet-innsbruck-erforscht-architektur-fuer-mond-und-mars by @nataliapiorecka
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