MUSHROOMJAM: RE-MATTERING is an interactive website for research and contemplation alongside lichen. Visitors are welcome to engage, shift, disrupt and alter content.  

Queen's University is situated on the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek.


Ne Queen's University e'tho nońwe nikanónhsote tsi nońwe ne Haudenosaunee tánon Anishinaabek tehatihsnónhsahere ne óhontsa.


Gimaakwe Gchi-gkinoomaagegamig atemagad Naadowe miinwaa Anishinaabe aking.MUSHROOMJAM: re-mattering is a transdisciplinary research project, thinking alongside the lichen actively metabolizing the stone structures of Queen’s University, in particulat Stauffer Library. These composite organisms (symbiotic fungi, algae and cyanobacteria) engage an ecology of collective softening, forming complex communities in otherwise inhospitable locales.

The website will remain-in-progress, with content changing alongside the human and more-than-human organisms engaged. New interactive components will be added between June—August 2023, including a guided walk and a virtual reading group.

              


What perceptual shifts occur when we reframe the institution through the more-than-human beings that are disrupting and re-mattering its colonial structures?


How might lichen lead us on diffractive, rhizomatic paths to generative sites of multi-species care?


How might we in turn co-conspire adaptive and affective strategies of resilience? 

Enter Mural


The MUSHROOMJAM mural is an evolving map of the website, highlighting the threads between pages, topics and questions. Visitors are invited to alter and add to the map, suggesting new pathways through the project. 

To enter the different research threads, select the corresponding lichen above.