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I am Marina, a nurse and a mushroom enthusiast. I believe we need to stay curious and playful, and step away from the daily seriousness that disconnects us from ourselves. I have been experimenting with mushroom cultivation for some time and I am fascinated by fungi as a broader phenomenon, including its folklore, symbolism, and material intelligence. This curiosity eventually led me to start running workshops.

The Soft Rot Library is a project that invites people to return to their own playground as an antidote to autopilot living, machinery, and everything increasingly robotic. In this workshop, participants bring a softcover book (up to 300 pages), which is used as a substrate for oyster mushrooms, creating a living object that they take home and continue to witness as it undergoes real-life metamorphosis.

In the process, we explore mushroom folklore, symbolism, and fungi as a phenomenon, while connecting with like-minded people through shared attention and conversation.