Dóra Márföldi
textile designer, assistant lecturer at the Fashion and Textile Department of the Budapest Metropolitan University
BIO
Dóra Márföldi is a Hungarian textile designer. She studied at the Master program of Fashion and Textile Design at the Budapest Metropolitan University, where she started to work as an assistant lecturer after graduation. In 2021, she and her colleagues founded the Szimbio Lab, where, in addition to biomaterial research, they are engaged in educational activities on the topic. Her research field is composite research for architectural purposes in collaboration with mycelium. Besides her research she regularly produces bioart works, which are exhibited in Hungarian and international exhibitions.
Abstract
Artistic research in partnership with mycelium
In contemporary art, the boundaries between genres have become increasingly blurred and overlapped. Design and art also cannot always be clearly separated. As sustainability challenges have come to the frontline, more and more unconventional materials have come to the forefront of creative or design thinking, resulting completely new ways of thinking and processes in the field. The most significant of these are the growing materials, which have completely rewritten the fine art and design with their living, self-organising way of being. The living organism is an active participant in these processes, which opens up completely new and different perspectives in the field of art and design.
Keywords: sustainability, sustainable design, biodesign, bioart, growing materials, mycelium, textile design