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My journey at Srishti and mycelia research connection - Coggle Diagram
My journey at Srishti and mycelia research connection
CE
play and invent (cycle 1)
focus
Understanding play, toys and games through human behavior and psychology.
Learning outcomes
How humans learn, evolve, and sharpen skills through play.
Connection between cognitive growth and leisure activities.
Connection to Mycelia
Just like mycelia expand and form networks, games and play help the human mind form new neural connections.
Both involve growth through interaction, mycelia connect plants; play connects people and thoughts.
The idea of continuous learning and adaptability mirrors mycelial resilience and flexibility in new environments.
Looking in Between the Lines (cycle 2)
focus
Designing a product inspired by animal dwelling spaces to solve problems for college students.
Learnings
Observed how animals use materials and spaces for comfort, safety, and coexistence.
Understood relationships between species and their environments.
Project outcome
created a solution that enhanced personal space, privacy, work efficiency and emotional well-being in shared living spaces (like hostel dorms)
Connection to Mycelia
Mycelia build symbiotic relationships, similar to how animal habitats rely on balance with surroundings.
The interdependence of species in ecosystems parallels how mycelia link plants and animals.
Inspired realization: humans also need balance between personal space and collective existence, much like mycelial networks balance individuality and community.
Workshop
Poetry of Lines
Focus
Finding beauty and meaning in minimal and overlooked forms like lines, textures, natural patterns.
Activities
Replicating vein patterns of dried leaves.
Observing bark, grass, ant hills, beehives.
appreciating negative spaces
recognising things that are often ignored or under appreciated
appreciating patterns created by nature like the path of a drop of ink, tear of paper, flow of pencil in a lose hand etc
Learning outcomes
Appreciating subtle structures and the spaces between lines that form complete beauty.
Seeing how simple patterns can lead to complex systems.
understanding the need to appreciate miniscule details.
Connection to Mycelia
Mycelial networks visually resemble vein and root systems, showing hidden beauty beneath the surface.
Both express the idea of unseen interconnections that sustain visible life.
Helped me recognize that design and nature often mirror patterns of growth, decay, and regeneration.
Research on Mycelia
Scientific understanding
Mycelia are the underground root-like structures of fungi.
They form vast decentralized networks that share nutrients and information among plants.
Act as ecosystem engineers, aiding soil regeneration, decomposition, and water absorption.
Were crucial for plants’ evolution from water to land millions of years ago.
Symbolic understanding
Mycelia represent growth, connection, and collaboration, the unseen but vital forces.
Reflect self-actualization in humans which is the tendency of expanding mentally, emotionally, and socially.
Teach sustainability, cooperation, and resilience, values echoed throughout my learning at Srishti.
Core Connections Between Srishti Learnings and Mycelia
Learning human behavior through play
Mycelia’s adaptive, ever-expanding nature mirrors human learning and growth
Studying habitats and biomimicry
Mycelia’s ecological relationships mirror natural coexistence and self-preservation
Observing natural patterns
Mycelial networks embody invisible patterns that sustain ecosystems
Emphasis on creativity and observation
Mycelia inspire designs that merge function and organic intelligence
Understanding individuality and community
Mycelia balance self-expansion with shared benefit, similar to collaborative human ecosystems