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// BOOKS

• Abram, D. (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Vintage Books

• Ahsan, H. (2021) Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert. Pluto Press

• Bierend, D. (2023) In search of mycotopia: Citizen science, fungi fanatics, and the untapped potential of mushrooms. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing

• Bridle, J. (2024) Ways of Being. Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. Penguin.

• Hawken, P. (2021) Regeneration. Ending the climate crisis in one generation. Penguin Books.

• Kaishian, Patricia. O. (2025) Forest euphoria: The abounding queerness of nature. New York: Spiegel & Grau

• Kimmerer, R. W. (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions

• Krznaric, R. (2021) The good ancestor: How to think long term in a short -term world. Penguin Books.

• Meadows, D. H. (2008) Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Edited by D. Wright. Chelsea Green Publishing

• Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Y. (2023) Let’s become fungal!: Mycelium teachings and the arts. Amsterdam: Valiz

• Parkinson, S. (2024) Stinkhorn. Sternberg Press

• Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L., (2018). Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press

• Press, J and Celi, M. (2024) Designing sustainable futures: How to imagine, create, and lead the transition to a better world. 1st ed. Routledge.

• Sheldrake, M. (2021). Entangled life. Bodley Head

• Taylor Clark, C. (2025) Home, The Lost Muti. Available at: https://www.lostmuti.com/ 

• Tsing, A. L. (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press

• Wahl, Daniel. C. (2016) Designing regenerative cultures. Axminster, England: Triarchy Press

// OTHER

• Adrienne Matei, The Guardian (2025) - Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The Dissonance is real 

• Amy Martin, The Guardian (2025) - Nature’s secret soundscape: Listen with me to the world’s quietest creatures

• Amy Webb, World Economic Forum (2024) - What is strategic foresight and why is it so important? 

• Arup Foresight

• Avanade Intelligent Garden

• Christian Sarkar, Philip Kotler and Enrico Foglia; Regeneration Journal (2023) - Sustainability, Resilience, Regeneration – What’s the Difference? 

• Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium (2017) - Sustainability is not enough: we need regenerative cultures

• Distributed Press Blog

• Eugenia Bone, (2024) - Mycelium, Mycology and Metaphor

• Freddie Sukprasong, Liminal Substack (2025) - Decentring the Designer

• Fungi: Web of Life film

• Future Days 2025

• Future Observatory Journal (2024) Worlding

• HAQUE TAN - Design for Shared Futures

• Inflection Points by Jorge De la Mora

• Institute of Natural Law

• Jay Graber, Medium (2023) - Web3 is Self-Certifying

• Jess Jorgensen and Marios Levi, Sporesight Substack (2023) - Embracing the third F word: Fauna, flora, and Funga

• Laura Saunders, Wired (2010) - Slime mold grows network just like Tokyo Rail System 

• Michael Kibedi, First & Fifteenth Substack (2024) - Fifteenth #5: On more-than-human design

• Moth Rights - Nonhuman Animal Communication Technologies

• The National Infrastructure Commission for Wales & ARUP Foresight — Welcome to a Flood Resilient Wales in 2050

• The National Infrastructure Commission for Wales — Flooding Report

• Paradox Institute, YouTube (2025) - Do Fungi Have Thousands of Sexes?

• Planetary Civics Inquiry

• Pollination, Chapter Zero and Korn Ferry (2024) Nature for Boards: A primer

• Project CETI

• Regenerative Marketing Institute

• The Regenescape

• RegenIntel

• Renee Davis, Hyphal Extensions Substack (2025) - Painting as process / The world is being created

• Renee Davis, Journal of Wild Culture (2023) - Ghost pipe: Grief remedies and metaphors for the anthropocene

• Science Friday with Patty Kaishian (2024) - Fungi and Queer Ecology

• Space.for.Earth on Instagram - “The Earth has a pulse, and satellites help us see it”

• TWPF Reading Group ​(2024) Center for the Study of World Religions

// ACADEMIC PAPERS

• Adamatzky, A. (2022) ‘Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity’, Royal Society Open Science, 9(4). doi:10.1098/rsos.211926.

• Djoulakian, Hasmik. (2020) ‘The Science Underground’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2). doi:10.28968/cftt.v6i2.33523

• Frank, A., Grinspoon, D. and Walker, S. (2022) ‘Intelligence as a planetary scale process’, International Journal of Astrobiology, 21(2), pp. 47–61. doi:10.1017/s147355042100029x

• Microbial Biotechnology (2024) Article Title. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mmi.15118 

• Nowakowski, Patryk. et al. (2020) ‘The two faces of coprinus comatus functional properties and potential hazards’, Phytotherapy Research, 34(11), pp. 2932–2944. doi:10.1002/ptr.6741

• Gervais, N.C., Shapiro, R.S. Discovering the hidden function in fungal genomes. Nat Commun 15, 8219 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52568-z. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52568-z  

• Scott, J.A. et al. (2016) ‘Multilocus DNA sequencing of the whiskey fungus reveals a continental-scale speciation pattern’, Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, 37(1), pp. 13–20. doi:10.3767/003158516x689576 

• Smith, Gabriel .R. et al. (2018) ‘Competition–colonization tradeoffs structure fungal diversity’, The ISME Journal, 12(7), pp. 1758–1767. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0086-0

• Steinberg, G. et al. (2017) ‘Cell biology of hyphal growth’, Microbiology Spectrum, 5(2). doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.funk-0034-2016

• Stepney, S. et al. (2005) ‘Journeys in non-classical computation I: A grand challenge for computing research’, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 20(1), pp. 5–19. doi:10.1080/17445760500033291. 

• Wäli, P.P. et al. (2013) ‘Is the pathogenic ergot fungus a conditional defensive mutualist for its host grass?’, PLoS ONE, 8(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069249

This list was last updated on 1st September 2025.