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12/10/2025

🌿 Network Walk
Join a gentle exploration through Bengaluru’s hidden infrastructures — where telegraph buildings, internet cables, trees, fungi, and lichens weave together as living networks. Guided by Biplab Mahato and Iz Paehr, this walk invites you to sense the invisible ecologies and stories beneath the city’s surface.

07/10/2025

Life finds a way, even in the cracks of our cities. At Doresanipalya, a small protected forest hidden between apartments in South Bangalore, fungi thread through soil, roots, and fallen leaves, binding the forest together into a vibrant, interconnected web of life. As we walk, we pause, notice, and rediscover the city as part of nature’s living network.

03/10/2025

Fungi Find Foray is about wandering with curiosity, seeking fungi in unexpected places, listening to the stories they reveal, and learning how they weave life into the cracks of our cities. More than a walk, it’s a practice of attention: to notice, to wonder, and to reimagine the city as a living ecosystem.

26/09/2025

Big love to the amazing team behind ! 🌧️🍄🍄‍🟫

30 students, 2 weeks, 1 wild ride through art, ecology, and civic action 💪🏽🧽🖌️ From clearing footpaths to fixing streetlights with local authorities, this mural isn’t just paint, it’s participation.

A public art and nature education project led by and powered by the incredible students of Creative Education course.

From researching with artists and faculty to collaborating with Bengaluru’s civic bodies, these students didn’t just paint a mural, they activated public space. ✨

🎨 Featuring India’s first curated AR street art mural
📍 Opp. DYU Art Cafe, 8th Block, Koramangala
📲 Scan the panels with the Artivive app to experience the magic!

10/08/2025

Connections matter because they grow with intention, quietly building a web of strength, one mycelial thread at a time.

06/07/2025

We’re coming together to share something simple yet special —
a slow experience with mushrooms, stories, and seasonal nourishment. 🍄

On 12th July, join us at Bodhsara Studio for a small, sensory gathering hosted by .in ×

📲 DM us to join. Limited seats.

15/11/2024

🚨WORKSHOP ALERT🚨

🍄 Writing Telegrams to Fungi, Sending Bytes across Trees
A Network Walk at Cubbon Park

Networks are all around us: From digital devices that connect (some of) us to global communication structures, to the fine threads of mycorrhizal networks that interconnect the very trees that in turn hold internet cables channelling zeros and ones. During this workshop and walk at and around Cubbon Park, we will search for and trace networks in the ground, between trees and across buildings. Touching smartphones, lichens, soils and cables, we will sense into layered networked ecologies and learn about their (hir-her-his) stories by visiting the ruins of a building that once organized telegraph communications. Going deeper, we will move underground and play with sending signals through the tunnels that move people through the city’s soil and visit Art in Transit. Instead of understanding these networks as separate, we will pay attention to where they meet and interlink in the form of fluid and sticky networked ecologies. Join us to encounter mycelium, telegraph and digital networks. Let’s find out how connecting with soils, fungi, cables and internet protocols can shape whats kinds of networks we dare to dream towards.

This walk is organized by Iz Paehr (criptographic@) and Biplab Mahato () during Iz’s bangaloREsidency with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and .

🗓️Sunday, November17
⏰2 pm - 4pm
📍Meeting Point: Central Telegraph Office (exact location after registration)

Access Info: Cubbon Park can be reached via metro and has an elevator.

We will walk a maximum distance of 2 km. Please let us know your access needs and we will try to meet them.

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15/09/2024

Sharing a curated collection of books on ecology and fungi from ’s Gulbanoo Premji Library—an invaluable resource for enhancing our understanding of fungi. For those with access, we encourage you to explore the library’s ecology section.

As Shroomin celebrates 3 years and 4 months, we take a moment to reflect on a journey marked by growth, challenges, and continuous learning. The world of fungi offers essential insights into sustainability, ecological balance, and the interdependence of food and nature. This month’s adjacent newsletter by .mag features an insightful conversation with , delving into the fascinating intersection of fungi, food, and nature.

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03/09/2024

Celebrating an incredible experience with interdisciplinary artists and during their residency at , exploring the tiny worlds of lichens—where life intertwines in symbiotic harmony.

Lichens are nature’s toughest duo—a mix of fungi and algae, thriving through collaboration. These wonders highlight the beauty of connection, inspiring us to rethink boundaries and imagine new life forms through more-than-human collaboration. Reflecting on our journey through Symbiotica Vol. 2, where new possibilities were imagined and fresh perspectives embraced. Grateful for this unique adventure and the chance to see the world through nature’s collaborative lens. Thank you! 💚

22/07/2024

Absolutely grateful to have been a part of the Part II Residency at Sara Centre in July 2024! Engaging with local farmer leaders, village school students, and district college students has been an enriching experience. From thought-provoking ecology lectures and seminars to hands-on mushroom cultivation workshops, every moment was incredible. A huge thank you to everyone who joined the mushroom field walks and the mushroom soup-making crew. Together, we’ve nurtured a deeper connection with nature! 🍄

21/07/2023

Did you know mushrooms are the only natural food source of vitamin D?

Mushrooms present an exciting solution for addressing vitamin D deficiency in India, especially for those following a vegetarian diet. By harnessing the power of natural UV light exposure, mushrooms offer an effective, plant-based source of vitamin D.

17/05/2023

Are you cutting back on meat these days?

Did you know mushrooms have been found to reduce cholesterol and the risk of dementia?

Mushrooms are also one of the only food sources of vitamin D!

Mushrooms are turning up on dinner tables across Australia in greater numbers than ever, as people look for meat alternatives.