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Acknowledgements
Thank you...
Architect and Doctoral Researcher Maiju Suomi for fruitful discussions, brainstorming and commenting on the design of Kudos – Library for Material Relations, and for your friendship.
My thesis supervisor Associate Professor Tomek Rygalik and advisors Senior Lecturer Antti Pirinen and Associate Professor Julia Lohman for support and advice.
Fellow researchers and academic board of Area doctoral school of artistic research for support, feedback and enlightening discussions.
Kone foundation and Aalto University for funding my research.
Harvey Shaw and Cisil Heltimoinen for assisting in the workshops.
Annantalo Cultural Center for Children and youth and the wonderful staff there for collaboration and the children (some of whom wished to stay anonymous so their names will not be mentioned here) in the summer course for their participation.
Students of Aalto summer workshop for their participation and contributions to Kudos – Library for Material Relations: Sini Hintsala, Ruta Jagelaviciute, Sofia Jokhadze, Sara Kannasvuo, Julia Töyrylä, Ziyue Yin, Li Yulan.
Architect Moritz Schineiss for woodwork, Clay Artesan Mari Hermaja for collaboration in clay workshops and Kalle Kataila for video production.
Senior Lecturers Panu Halme and Sari Timonen for interviews in mycology and to Sari Timonen, Julia Lohman and Maiju Suomi for discussions at Kudos Talks and for everyone who joined us.
All Aalto facilities without which this project would not have been possible: Aalto workshops (especially Josh Krute), Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts (Larisa Chernyaeva), Space 21 – Space for the Unexpected (Jason Selvarajan), Aalto Studios Take Out (Laura Törnroos), Designs for the Cooler Planet exhibition for including Kudos and the computational resources provided by the Aalto Science-IT project .
Thank you family, friends and neighbours for love, patience, glass jars and cardboard boxes.
Thank you fungi.