Faber Futures

The Museum of Symbiosis is a science fiction story about a society that has harnessed biotechnology and reorganised itself to enable human flourishing in symbiosis with the living world. Here, Faber Futures present an immersive audio experience of this powerful story. A speculative model made from mycelium and bronze grounds the narrative, taking the audience on a journey through the institution to explore the roots of this transformative change through real-world artefacts donated by people shaping the field today.
Designer Maurizio Montalti’s replica of a seventeenth-century microscope makes visible the life with which people are entangled, whilst also representing colonial scientific methods which alienate people from nature. Farmer Chido Govera’s mushroom reveals the erasure of Indigenous knowledge systems and what becomes possible when their originators reclaim them.

Authorial collaborators
Claire L. Evans
Technical collaborators
Mogu, Mathias Arrignon, Francesco Anselmo, Bronze Age London
Team
Ioana Man, Camille Thiery, Laura Vent, Magdalena Obmalko
With special thanks to
Megan J. Palmer, Cameron Fox, Melissa Salm, Elissa Prichep, Christina Agapakis, Lotte Asveld, Selassie Atadika, Margo A. Bagley, Marlene van Bergeijk, Rob F. Beudeker, Tom Bosschaert, Roel Bovenberg, Fernando ‘Nano’ Castro, Carole Collet, Drew Endy, Paul Freemont, Chido Govera, Pim Klaassen, David Sun Kong, Douwe Korting, Natalie Kuldell, Kyle Lauersen, Emma van der Leest, Gillian Marcelle, Maurizio Montalti, Nhlanhla Msomi, Geoffrey Otim, Megan J. Palmer, Jahnavi Phalkey, Julia Rijssenbeek, Corinne Okada Takara, Kassahun Tessfaye, Ionat Zurr
With the additional support of
African Futures Institute