@fungi.futures
a project learning with fungi to map radical alternative futures

across the UK
2020 - present

@fungi.futures is Maymana Arefin’s central project, shaped by her award-winning MSc research, Mapping Alternative Futures through Fungi. The project builds upon her central thesis that mycorrhizal fungal networks (widely known as the “wood wide web”) can be used as a metaphor for activism and mutual aid. Since this research was published, Maymana continues to explore and experiment with her groundbreaking thesis that links mycelium networks in the soil to care work in human societies.

To do so, Maymana leads plant/fungi walks, runs creative workshops, gives keynote lectures and organises tailored interventions for youth centres, community groups, activists, social justice practitioners and more. This project is committed to radical, decolonial, ecofeminist and abolitionist praxis.

In 2023, @fungi.futures was invited by Peaks of Colour, a nature-for-healing club by and for people of colour only in collaboration with the Right to Roam campaign to facilitate a “walkshop” centred on our right to healing. Through leading an immersive fungi walk through the Peak District, Maymana invited participants on a storytelling journey through the woods, with drawing materials available for participants. Together, we co-created a dreamlike space to imagine radical alternative futures through the fungal encounters that we shared.

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