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Out of the Ground and Into the Living. Written by @isbn.billy for @disegnojournal sharing a story we felt we needed to tell on making space for the things we can’t control. Words by Billy De Luca Photographs by Daniil Kotliar The piece can be found in @disegnojournal Issue #42 on Transformation Thank you Oli Stratford for making space for us to share this experience.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this past weekend to wander and learn in the mystical Fontainebleau Forest. We felt the effects of the summer’s heatwaves, and as parts of the forest recovers from the recent fires, we were reminded of how constantly is changes and the role fungi play in these processes. Hoping to make it back very soon for those who couldn’t make it this time. Follow @systemsofmatter for more wonderful events!
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WORKSHOP SEASON 2026 | Color Experiments with Fungi This immersive workshop, led by design studio Aléa Work, explored color as a living, evolving process through fungi. Participants engaged in hands-on experimentation, dyeing with foraged mushrooms and natural pigments, while also experimenting with mycelium to degrade and transform color in existing textiles. Participants moved between individual investigations and collective experiments, testing pigments, growing mycelium on textiles, and documenting color transformations. Challenging the common perception of mycelium as monochrome, the workshop revealed an underexplored fungal spectrum in which color emerged through interaction, time, and material agency. Season curated by : Guillermo Gil Fernández @guillegilfernandez & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity

Tutors : Aléa @alea_work
Miriam Josi @mimivert & Stella Lee Prowse @stellaleeps Assisted by Paula Schulte @paula_schulte_ 
 Boisbuchet Media Team: Photos : Yachu Hsu (Joy) @xxyachu
 Led by Manon Arrougé @m_arrouge & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity Boisbuchet Technical Team: Daniel Hernández @daniarmario
Lucía Navas @lucianavassss Yannis Hotz @yannishotz Led by Dean Toepfer @deantoepfer
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WORKSHOP SEASON 2026 | Color Experiments with Fungi This immersive workshop, led by design studio Aléa Work, explored color as a living, evolving process through fungi. Participants engaged in hands-on experimentation, dyeing with foraged mushrooms and natural pigments, while also experimenting with mycelium to degrade and transform color in existing textiles. Participants moved between individual investigations and collective experiments, testing pigments, growing mycelium on textiles, and documenting color transformations. Challenging the common perception of mycelium as monochrome, the workshop revealed an underexplored fungal spectrum in which color emerged through interaction, time, and material agency. Season curated by : Guillermo Gil Fernández @guillegilfernandez & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity

Tutors : Aléa @alea_work
Miriam Josi @mimivert & Stella Lee Prowse @stellaleeps Assisted by Paula Schulte @paula_schulte_ 
 Boisbuchet Media Team: Video: Yachu Hsu (Joy) @xxyachu
 Led by Manon Arrougé @m_arrouge & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity Boisbuchet Technical Team: Daniel Hernández @daniarmario
Lucía Navas @lucianavassss Yannis Hotz @yannishotz Led by Dean Toepfer @deantoepfer
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WORKSHOP SEASON 2026 | Color Experiments with Fungi This immersive workshop, led by design studio Aléa Work, explored color as a living, evolving process through fungi. Participants engaged in hands-on experimentation, dyeing with foraged mushrooms and natural pigments, while also experimenting with mycelium to degrade and transform color in existing textiles. Participants moved between individual investigations and collective experiments, testing pigments, growing mycelium on textiles, and documenting color transformations. Challenging the common perception of mycelium as monochrome, the workshop revealed an underexplored fungal spectrum in which color emerged through interaction, time, and material agency. Season curated by : Guillermo Gil Fernández @guillegilfernandez & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity

Tutors : Aléa @alea_work
Miriam Josi @mimivert & Stella Lee Prowse @stellaleeps Assisted by Paula Schulte @paula_schulte_ 
 Boisbuchet Media Team: Photos : Yachu Hsu (Joy) @xxyachu
 Led by Manon Arrougé @m_arrouge & Pablo Sevilla @sevillaisnotacity Boisbuchet Technical Team: Daniel Hernández @daniarmario
Lucía Navas @lucianavassss Yannis Hotz @yannishotz Led by Dean Toepfer @deantoepfer
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Flower lover. Artichoke bouquets, planting plans, planting pallets (includes mostly edibles - caper flowers, passion fruit, wild hibiscus, artichoke, fig, pomegranate, poppies, clover), wildflower bouquets and stolen fruit with the best friends. In another season of loss watching flowers through their life cycles and remembering that at the end of their bloom a flowers death is the start of many seeds. Forever a flower eater and a guerrilla flower grower, a flower student and a flower lover. And lucky that often this is what work looks like. 🌞 Thank you @lena.ghaninejad for the wild artichoke challenge! Love you always!
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Week three at @boisbuchet complete. This week we welcomed @wesamasali & @boveda_tabicada, @alea_work and @xaviermanosa & @venathadrien for an extended 10 day workshop. Wesam and Salvador introduced the centuries-old craft of tile vaulting, where participants worked together to construct a full-scale ceramic pavilion using thin clay tiles and traditional building techniques. Aléa invited participants to explore fungi as both a living material and a source of colour, experimenting with mycelium, and natural dyes to uncover new possibilities for regenerative material practice. Meanwhile, Xavier Mañosa and Hadrian Venant ceramics workshop explored the relationship between clay, surface, and form, culminating in a 3 day firing of the anagama wood-fired kiln. Another inspiring week of experimentation, collaboration, and learning. Looking forward to seeing what next week brings. Thanks to the the technical team @lucianavassss @daniarmario @yannishotz
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@systemsofmatter off to an amazing start! I began this creative programming around ecology because it is something I craved in Paris! And the momentum and response has been humbling. So grateful for this growing community and for the incredible teachers who have been part of it so far (even in this heatwave)! From watercoloring with river water on the Seine with @fernandaballesterosf to a lecture about the sublime with @anitra_l to herbalism blends with @panaceaplants , to seed bombing and a trees of Paris bike ride with me @lepelotonstudio ! Programming for the fall is in full swing, and I can’t wait to share. We have dye workshops, clay meditations, lectures on beauty, local plant cyanotypes, seed keeping and gathering, and and and!!!! Watch this space! And if you want to propose a workshop, please do! No time like now to be engaged with the more-than-human world. Xx
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For the past year, we have been exploring mycelium’s capacity to transform and degrade certain dyes. Playing with subtractive processes of making, patterns emerge through the traces of growth in ways beyond what we could imagine or plan. This project is supported with deadstock fabrics from @kupptextiles and with research support from @prohelvetia A selection of these pieces is currently on view this weekend at @anticipation.festival at @gaitelyrique as part of the festival’s exhibition programme. Big thank you to @ameurdaneta helping us this past month!
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AGRAFA 26 ✨ Circles - What a wonderful experience it was to be in Katowice 🇵🇱 connecting with new friends and truly special people who will always have a place in my heart! I thank my dear Justyna Szklarczyk-Lauer for the invitation and all the hospitality; it has been an enormous privilege to meet such lovely people as Enrico Bravi, Sheila Hollins, @annaorska @stellaleeps @alea_work @andreas_uebele Mariana Paszkowska, Lucyna Talejko-Kwiatkowska, and Jan Kubasiewicz. Many thanks to my dear Agnieszka Nawrocka @koralowce_ Many thanks to the whole team: Zofia Oslislo-Piekarska, Jacek Mrowczyk, Agata Korzeńska, Dobromir!! What a great job! I’m sure I’m forgetting many more—you know who I’m talking about! It has been a true privilege to meet you all and share so much this week! Thank you so much, my dearest @basiaflores 🌺 The Flores family is all over the world doing wonderful things! 😉 I already miss you all, but I’m sure I’ll be back soon and we’ll do even more amazing things together!! I love you all so much! #poland #katowice #orbehstudio
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Aléa in Poland Thank you @agrafa.katowice for inviting us to share our work and spend time in Katowice. Leaving with many lingering thoughts and feelings on the theme of Cycles. A thought that stuck is that progress isn’t linear. Thank you to the organizers, inspiring speakers, sign language interpreters, and everyone who made the gathering feel so thoughtful.
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Denim scraps assembled with Pleurotus mycelium, grown in soil. Photos @victorpoullain
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