The book gives readers unique tools for designing architectural forms and creative works using the slime mould, understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life, it sparks new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts, architecture, science and engineering.
1 Myxomycetes and Art 2 Introduction to the Myxomycetes 3 Many-Headed: Co-creating with the Collective 4 A Nonlinear Approach to Generate Creative Data Using Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors 5 The Plasmodium Consortium: When Art, Science and Philosophy Form a Policy Think Tank 6 Polycephalum Wetware: Reasoning across Architecture, Biology and Computation 7 Living Screens: The Foraging of Atmospheric Patterns 8 Slimedia: Physarum as Medium and Cultural Mediator 9 Explorative Growth for Art and Architecture 10 Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimagining City Infrastructures with Slime Mould 11 BioLogic - Living Structures and Swarm Bodies 12 Slime Intelligence 13 Pulse, Flow - Artistic Exploration of Physarum polycephalum 14 Disruptive Material Intelligence of Physarum: Liquid Architecture of a Biological Geometry Computer 15 Protoplasmic Routes: A Post-human Vision of Livability and Co-existence 16 The Chemical Machine 17 Cell Memories 18 Ctrl: Quantify, Compare, Optimize, Repeat