Help grow a garden of ginormous, glowing, origami-inspired mushrooms for Burning Man this year.
Last year, the group of designers, engineers, and makers who comprise the arts and technology collective FoldHaus created Blumen Lumen, an installation of oversized flowers that open and close and change colors in response to the environment. This year, they’re back with Shrumen Lumen — a cluster of five interactive kinetic fungi that glow, fold up, and change color and shape. Filled with more than 1,600 computer-controlled color LEDs, with mushroom caps that span 12 feet in diameter, the sculptures will change color and shape depending on how people interact with octagonal control pads spread throughout the mushroom garden.
See how the team is making progress and lend a green-thumbed hand right here.












