Entangled Mycelium explores grown textiles as sculptural and spatial forms. The project develops a hybrid filament, a textile sleeve filled with mycelium, which is knitted, woven, or knotted into flat and three-dimensional structures. Forms are shaped through hanging or stretching, allowing gravity and material properties to influence the outcome. During growth, color, surface, and form change, and fruiting bodies may appear, which are embraced as part of the material’s contribution to the work.

The project shows how natural growth and material processes contribute to structure, texture, and visual presence, creating biodegradable objects that respond to their environment. By combining textile techniques with living or solidifying substrates, it produces sculptural, spatial, and tactile qualities while highlighting the material’s agency.

The resulting solidified textiles emerge through negotiation with the material rather than imposed control, emphasizing slow, attentive practice and care for material transformation. Entangled Mycelium demonstrates how textiles can participate in regenerative design, making growth and ecological processes tangible and educational.

Anne-Kathrin Kühner is a designer working across textile and material design research, with interest in hands-on experimentation, textile construction and material systems. She develops hybrid filaments and solidified textiles, creating sculptural and three-dimensional forms that evolve through growth and material processes, exploring how textiles can engage with ecological and regenerative practices.