Bricolage Initiatives
This is very much a work-in-progress page, whereby I can drop my “bricolage” initiatives within the sustainability and regeneration space.
Lévi-Strauss’s 1966 introduction of bricolage, defined as “making the most of available resources“, Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2303426
Bricolage also parallels similar colloquialisms or words in other nations, such as the “number 8 wire” mentality in New Zealand.
The driving force behind this for me, is a kind of “Kymmenykset“, which is captured in Victor Papanek's book 'Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change'. We could also call it “social self-tithing” through art-form (and it parallels other terms within other cultures and belief systems), but in essence, it manifests itself as an altruistic desire to design solutions for the sake of addressing the systemic needs of Earth as an interconnected biome (humans, flora, fauna etc.). There is an inherent wholesomeness that is also implicit here in this creative act of “Kymmenykset”:
“The imagination is committed to the justice of wholeness…Where the imagination is awake and alive, fact never hardens or closes but remains open, inviting you to new thresholds of possibility and creativity.” J. O’Donohue
From a personal standpoint, my list is in its infancy, but I do intend to build on this. I always admired Nikola Tesla, he dared to dream and was driven by his own form of 'kymmenykset', I love these quotes of his:
“But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.” - Nikola Tesla
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.” - Nikola Tesla
So I naturally started to tinker.
Distributed Manufacturing & Remediation
1 - FungAI
FungAI™ harnesses the power of fungi, physics, and AI to accelerate bioprocesses — delivering safer, more sustainable outcomes and unlocking new value from waste.
The FungAI™ System, fuses fungi, physics, and AI to provide operators real-time visibility and adaptive control over microbial processes. The result is fast, smart, circular bioprocessing that:
- Increases throughput and reduces yield variability
- Reduces waste and contamination risk
- Unlocks new value pathways from waste.
Designed as a modular and portable platform, the FungAI System adapts to customer needs – from containerised units for toxic timber remediation to retrofits of existing bioreactors and on-site infrastructure.
Video summary: coming soon...