The KDI student cohort invites you to join an audio visual celebration of mushrooms and mycelium featuring 20 short films from 17 countries. Wear your best festive fungi attire—a prize will be awarded for the best outfit!

Popcorn and beverages will be provided. Bring a mushroom-based dish to share.

Are you working on a research, art, or design project featuring mushrooms or mycelium? Bring your work to share with fellow fungi-philes. Tables will be provided for display.

Films
Amanita (11:06) – Alexa Angeles, Carolina Revilla (Mexico)
Batrachia (6:47) – Lorenzo Silano (Italy)
Dead Bird (1:29) – Matthew Lei (USA)
Flora, Fauna, Funga (16:51) – Sam Sheline (Chile)
Fungi Forage (2:10) – Molly Brown, Cy Henty, Al Ronald (UK)
Gold of the Plateau (5:52) – Miriam Follin (China)
How to Film a Mushroom (20:14) – Lucas Gortemaker (Netherlands / Belgium / Germany)
Il Fungo di Albaredo (3:40) – Lennart Reichel (Italy)
Misteria del Bosque (Mystery of the Forest) (4:40) – Ger Killeen (USA)
MUSH (2:12) – Maya Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria)
Mushlings (3:53) – Magdalena Berezowska (Poland)
Mushrooms in Space (5:05) – Rosi Bundz (Germany)
Mycelium (3:21) – Heather Whelton (UK)
Mycoaudiology: The Lost Tapes (6:32) – Sebastian Fontey-huety (UK)
Psilocybin (2:50) – Alvaro Giraldo Mesones (Spain / Canada)
Rot (2:00) – Autojektor (UK)
Silverphae (3:02) – Hannah Read (USA)
The Mushroom Keepers (16:08) – Naveed Mulki (India)
Visions of the Fungicene (5:48) – Angel Salazar (Argentina)

About the Kusske Design Initiative

A generous commitment from Manitou Fund to the College of Design at the University of Minnesota honors the memory of distinguished alumnus Christopher Arthur Kusske (BLA ’78). The Kusske Design Initiative (KDI) reflects his legacy through widely inclusive events and collaborations among a growing design community. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, co-creativity, and celebration of the natural world, KDI programs and inquiries have transformative potential for the products we use, the places we inhabit, and the systems we tend. Learn more at kdi.umn.edu.

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