03/10/2026
📚 Dogeared Rubrica | Book of the Week
Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez published by Publisher Valiz ( you know by now we are a huge fan)
This is one of the best books we have read since a while! It is a book that is much more than a book. It is a ways of seeing things, learning from the mycelium.
“There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.
Drawing on art and mycology, Let’s Become Fungal! shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency, all in line with how the mycelium behaves.
Every chapter is phrased as a question. They don’t lead to answers but to twelve teachings on collaboration, decoloniality, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death, and being non-binary, while venturing deeper into the world of fungi.
It’s an invitation to pause and ask: what would it mean for my practice to become more fungal, right now?
Because the teachings of the fungus can inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policy-makers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change-makers, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community leaders, farmers, and many others to work and be differently.”
A book we recommend when you want to rethink how you connect, collaborate and sustain your practice 🤍
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