The WitchLab is a collaborative ongoing research project between designers, artists and students located in southern Sweden. The lab is hosted at the .........................................................HQ in Växjö and open to the public during the Energy+Agriculture OpenLab hours on Tuesdays (go see their programme!).
The lab was founded in February 2022 as a common research ground for different students' projects. They put it together with some local designers from the Regenerative Energy Communities, and call themselves the wetlab witches. Learn more about them here!

Betül is a Design+Change Master student at Linnaeus University who turned her room into a fungi-friendly space. When she isn't thinking about thesis' deadlines, Betül enjoys a good afternoon of dog-sitting. Her work revovles around communication within multipsecies design, which she is currently experimenting by coliving with several samples of Pestalotiopsis Microspora; she is also responsible for getting Mathilde into the fungi side.
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* You can find the earlier stage of her fungal collaboration with Mathilde

Smaranda is a Design+Change Bachelor student at Linnaeus University, and our local witchcraft expert. Her fungi skills have been polished over years of growing mushrooms at home. Soon-to-be-graduate, Smaranda's research embraces aspects of techno-feminism within contemporary witchcraft and future fungal communication; we owe her the How to Wetlab Spellbook (coming soon).
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Miranda is a member of the Regenerative energy Communities project. She is a transdisciplinary cultural worker from Cape Town, focussing on socio-ecological sustainability through exploring the problematics and hopeful possibilities of technology. She has exhibited, performed research, made a mess, and given lectures and workshops across the globe in various art, science and public spaces. She has just recently graduated from Linnaeus University's Design+Change Masters program.
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Daniel is a member of the Regenerative Energy Communities project. He is a designer and a trained product developer who teaches at the Department of Design+Change at Linnaeus University. He focuses on Research through Design (RtD) as well as negotiating an understanding of the world through physical objects and prototypes that may transmit issues, ideas and alternatives to be less abstract – formulating a space of thought and action for change. He is also very devoted to co-creating customised sports equipment for/with people with physical impairment.
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Mathilde is a Design+Change Master student at Linnaeus University, currently wrapping up her thesis before the end of the academic year. A recenlty converted muhsroom enthusiast, Mathilde is particularly interested in waste and plastic-decomposing creatures; her research dives into speculative care and multispecies relations. She is the one who designed this website and went crazy with the graphics.
* You can contact/find her here:
* You can find the earlier stage of her fungal collaboration with Betül