What if there was a way to make sustainable, strong and affordable building materials?
Artist/designer Joshua English and founder of Okom Wrks Labs, has a plan that could make this a reality. Okom Wrks Labs uses low-tech means of creating load-bearing, structural components using only 3 organic ingredients: mycelium, hemp hurd, and cotton.
Joshua’s 27 years of experience in large system design and data visualization come to life in his 1,500 square foot industrial work space, located in Colorado Springs. Here, he and his talented crew indulge their not-so-mild obsession by finding and creating material solutions to human problems.
Joshua chose Colorado Springs to be the home of Okom Wrks Labs because one of his key ingredients, hemp, can be grown legally here, and because Colorado Springs also gives his new start-up access to some of the nation’s top science and engineering talent.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 6:00pm, Joshua English will demonstrate his patent pending process of growing structural mycelium for Pikes Peak Mycological Society. See firsthand the marvelous strides he is making toward a greener future using fungi!
We will be meeting at Bear Creek Nature Center, located at 245 Bear Creek Road.
This event is free and open to the public.