Plant-based composite bio-leather (Mykkö)

污染和气候变化正在成为我们有生之年必须面对的最具影响力和最具影响力的威胁。我们制造、购买和消费的东西将影响我们的后代。时尚业作为污染最严重但利润最丰厚的行业之一，现在被迫面对其活动的后果。随着我们目前面临的水/二氧化碳污染、纺织废物和全球资源危机等挑战，迫切需要更现实的生态纤维替代品。Mykkö是一种以植物为基础的纯素选择，适用于奢侈皮革和面向工业的材料。我们的研发项目将致力于为时尚业提供一种前卫的可持续材料，重点放在配饰和皮具上，同时仍适用于后续发展阶段的服装。我们创新的纺织品生产工艺采用菌丝体和植物性可生物降解纤维相结合。通过使用有机纤维实现良性循环，我们的产品的生命周期将嵌入循环经济。通过这项提议，我们将建立我们的第一个试点制造设施，使我们能够完成为制造而设计的研发，以及进一步优化我们当地的野生菌丝体培养，以确保生产达到预期目标。最终使生物制造成为时尚行业的现实，我们将通过打破纺织品生产的枯竭线性循环，为更广泛的供应链做出贡献，并提供一种全新的模式，依靠生命系统创造新的美学和材料，以吸引越来越多有意识的客户。

Pollution and climate change are becoming the most influential and impactful threats that we will have to face in our lifetime. What we make, buy and consume will affect many generations after us. Fashion, as one of the most polluting yet lucrative industries, is now forced to face the consequences of its activities. With the current challenges we are facing in terms of water /CO2 pollution, textile waste and global resource crisis, there is an urgent need for more realistic ecological fibre alternatives.Mykkö is a plant-based vegan option for luxury leather and industry-facing material. Our R&D project will aim to offer an avant-garde sustainable material for the fashion industry with a strong focus on accessories and leather goods, while still being applicable to apparel in following development phases. Our innovative textile production process employs mycelium combined with plant-based biodegradable fibres. Materialising a virtuous cycle by using organic fibres, our product's end-of-life will be embedded in the circular economy.Through this proposal, we will set up our first pilot manufacturing facility, allowing us to complete R&D on the design-for-manufacturing as well as further optimisation of our local wild mycelium cultures to ensure that the production achieves its intended goals. Eventually making bio-fabrication a reality for the fashion industry, we will contribute to the wider supply chain by breaking the exhausted linear cycle of textile production and offer a radically new model that relies on living systems creating new aesthetics and materials to appeal to more and more conscious customers.