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Research into Coral and Algae:

When I started this project I looked into various micro-organisms ranging from slide mould to forms of fungi. I found myself particularly interested in ‘Algae’. The first thing I did was type  ‘Algae’ to Google and it gave me an array of definitions, wikipedia’s was the easiest for me to understand: a simple non- flowering, and typically […]

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Algae, Edible Culture, and Contemporary Design

The vast fields of deep sea grass and thick diffused fog of iridescent river microbes share a common ancestry – both of Familiae Eukarayota, or Algae, in a partnership going back 1,600 million years. Human interaction with algae came after hundreds of million years of evolution, first introduced as edible seaweed to Chinese nobility around […]