The Living Room by Arts and Culture - University of Exeter published on 2021-12-07T10:50:10Z 'The Living Room' is a podcast created by TrailMix[ED] (Dr Bram Thomas Arnold)which features original sound work and conversations between Professor Caitlin DeSilvey from University of Exeter and Professor Martin Grünfeld from the University of Copenhagen. These podcast has been released to coincide with an exhibition at Copenhagen’s Medical Museion which explores explores what happens when museum objects are allowed to change and decay. Objects on display in the ‘Living Room’ at Copenhagen’s Medical Museion include audio reels colonised with mould and pink oyster mushrooms growing on discarded medical books. Opened to the public in November 2021, the room in the museum’s basement contains objects that are not part of the official collection, which would otherwise have been disposed of. Professor Grünfeld, of Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, collaborated with Professor DeSilvey, of the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute, to develop the ideas that informed the collective interdisciplinary project at Medical Museion. Collaborating across conservation science, artistic practice and the humanities, the Living Room project accommodates—and sometime actively encourages—the appetites of ‘heritage eaters’ such as fungi and insect larvae. Find out more here: https://www.museion.ku.dk/en/living-room/ Created by TrailMixed[ED] Image credit: Sara Vale Rocha Genre Learning