Slime Mold Urbanism: Let People Make Mistakes, conversation with Anthony Mattacchione and Raphael Kay
Update: 2025-11-21
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I had so much fun speaking with Anthony Mattacchione and Raphael Kay.
They apply what they learned from slime mold to architecture and planning. This fascinating single-cell organism sends pulses through its body and can build efficient networks that resemble cities and transportation systems, only more resilient!
They apply what they learned from slime mold to architecture and planning. This fascinating single-cell organism sends pulses through its body and can build efficient networks that resemble cities and transportation systems, only more resilient!
I learned that we need a bit of “individual stupidity” for bottom-up community design to work. And that digital twin-making for cities already exists! What are we going to learn from it?
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