Fungi Festival

Join us this October in Copenhagen to explore the science, art, and magic of the fungal kingdom — and meet the people making it happen.

Learn how fungi help build modern building materials, feed the world and fight disease, and support healthy ecosystems, agriculture and the gut microbiome!

Step into the fascinating world of fungi with many Danish organisations – from universities to industry – showcasing how fungi are inspiring science, architecture, art, health, and everyday life. 

 What to expect

 Fresh fungi exhibitions – explore unique species and their surprising uses.

•  Inspiring talks & displays on:
•  Fungi for Materials, Art, Architecture & Heritage
•  Fungi for Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Human Fungal Disease
•  Fungi in Microbiomes: Soil, Gut & Plants

Program

Saturday 4th of October

13.00 - Lene Lange: How fungi can save the world!
13.20 - VIlhelm Carlström: Modelling & Simulating Fungal Growth
13.40 - Dan Funck Jensen: Svampe i kamp mod plantesygdomme -  Resultater fra marken og de bagved   liggende biologiske mekanismer
14.00 - David B. Collinge: Bioteknologiske sygdommesbeskyttelse
14.20 - Mads Boserup Lauritsen / Julie Holm: Hjemmedyrkede svampe - fra mycelium  til måltid / Grow your own mushrooms -  from mycelium to meal
15.00 - Pablo Cruz-Morales: A marriage and a murder: Tales from Fungal Chemistry 
15.20 - Adrien Rigobello: Chorogram: knowledge sharing of mycoboscus craft
15.40 - Michela Gambino: Why fungi matter for the future of our heritage
16.00 - Jonathan Shik: Learning from Earth’s first farmers: Fungus  crop domestication by farming ants

Sunday 5th of October

13.00 - Lisbeth Garbrecht Thygesen: Svampe der spiser træ – er det et problem?
13:20 - Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen: Svampe er også på spil i Arktis
13:40 - Lene Lange: The positive effect of Psilocybin on the human brain and how it empowers the fungus
14:00 - Kasun Bodawatta + Kajsa Roslund: Hidden Fungal diversity in Cave ecosystems
14:20 Claudia Colmo: Living Fungal Materials - expanding design horizons
14:40 Rasmus Kjøller: Mycorrhiza - what is it and may you use it in your garden
15:00 Phil Ayres: Fungal Materials & Architectures
15:20 Sara Landvik: ‘Fungi between Science and Fantasy’
15:40 Jacob Heilmann-Clausen: Citizen science to explore fungal biodiversity in Denmark and Europe
16:00 Mikael Terp: ‘Fungal Food'

There will be an exhibition with Fungal Materials and Architectures, Yeasts as flavor generators in beer, Chemical and medicinal fungi, Fungal Biosolutions in your daily life and how to grow your own mushrooms, Molds potential and problems, in the indoors, in food and heritage yarn with fungal pigments, Fungus crop domestication by farming ants, Mycorrhiza and Plant root-symbiotic insect-pathogenic fungi and discover the Hidden Fungal diversity in Cave ecosystems, plus a mushroom exhibition with more than 200 different species from Svampeforeningen.