#8 Mushroom Coatings, Microbial Vending Machines and Some Fermented Passion - Emma van der Leest

 After this conversation, you'll want to zoom in on everything you wear, eat, touch, basically everything you see around you. Emma Van Der Leest is a biodesigner, researcher and teacher with a contagiously enthusiastic mission to rethink materials and to embrace microbial life. 🧫🦠 Through her (art) work she invites us to rethink our relationship to food, materials, all the things we use on a daily basis. We can create all of it with help of biotechnology, making it much healthier and sustainable. 🧪She moves between labs and lecture halls, between fungi and the building industry, between science and storytelling. 🌀She’s the best in connecting the dots and making the microscopic feel familiar through speculative design, but also through actual products. 🐚Emma's souvenir: Stay curious. At the end of each day, reflect on what you learned or what sparked your mind, whether it was a scientist, a book, or a vending machine at the train station. Visit Emma’s website to follow her work www.emmavanderleest.com  Hosted by: Daphne FrühmannEditing: Axel FrühmannMusic: Mark OomenInstagram: @theartofcoexistenceAn Ourcelium Publishers podcast