FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Take a virtual walk through the exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers. This exhibition was previously on display at the Nieuwe Instituut from 21 November 2025 to 9 August 2026.
FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Fungi – better known as moulds or mushrooms – satisfy many human needs. We have long eaten mushrooms, for example, and used penicillin to fight bacteria. Today, fungi are being embraced as a new, on-trend material in the worlds of design and architecture. Providing a counterbalance to this human-centred approach is FUNGI: Anarchist Designers.
This exhibition, curated by anthropologist Anna Tsing and architect and artist Feifei Zhou (terriStories), presents fungi as independent organisms that thrive in unique, multi-species environments and in the ruins of capitalism.