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Fungi Cosmology is a 3-year  international transdisciplinary research project bringing together artists, scientists, curators and anthropologists around the topic of fungi. The aim of the project is to enable challenging collaboration and foster interdisciplinary innovation, develop new knowledge, languages and methods of research from the observation and analysis of the symbiotic relationships of fungi.  
The project is a collaboration between LABverde in Brazil, CAB in Chile, artists-in-labs program and foodculture daysin Switzerland. Together they have selected a group of artists and scientists from each of their regions that will go on 3 research trips together. These three trips are being held in the Amazon (Spring 2023), in Patagonia (Spring 2024) and lastly in the Swiss Alps (Autumn 2024), where the participants will be doing field research on the local fungi kingdom. 
Mixing the disciplines of visual arts, mycology, anthropology and linguistics, transdisciplinarity is the main focus and starting point of this three-year exchange. 

Fungi Cosmology was initiated in 2020 by an association between LABverde (Brazil/Manaus) represented by Lilian Fraiji and CAB (Chile/Patagonia) represented by Maria Luisa Murillo. With the artists-in-labs program (Switzerland) and foodculture days (Switzerland) the project’s initial concept was further developed into a mutual collaboration project of a wider scope and perspective adding Switzerland to the territories to be explored in this context. This core group is programming and managing the research trips as well as the overall project. 

Fungi Cosmology is sponsored by ProHelvetia and Swissnex Brazil.