PERSPECTIVES

More perspectives. Wider frames.
Deeper realities.

Perspectives is an evolving collection of ideas, arguments and encounters that question the frames through which we understand reality.

From complex systems and the intelligence of living worlds to artificial minds, culture, consciousness, matter, cosmos and the human search for meaning, these essays, films, conversations and publications are invitations to look again.

ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

How to Be Right
About the Wrong World

What if our most consequential mistakes begin with a picture that is perfectly correct?

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Conceptual editorial interpretation of Brunelleschi’s perspective experiment, showing fixed architecture beneath a sky left open to the changing world.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 13 MIN READ

What Must We Give Up?

What if the choice between two competing needs is the very thing that needs to change?

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An empty executive room arranged around marked opposing corners, with a city beyond.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

When Capital Runs Out of Patience

What happens when an extraordinary possibility is forced to follow an ordinary financial timetable?

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A young tree and a clock stand together on a boardroom table.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

The Stories We Mistake for Nature

What happens when the stories shaping our relationship with nature become the inheritance of artificial intelligence?

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A luminous sun sends streams of energy towards Earth above a living coastal landscape.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

A Species Above Its Station

What gives one species the right to place itself above the life that makes its existence possible?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
An empty executive chair stands on a plinth within a mountain wetland.
TALK & CONVERSATION | TEDxBoston | 2025

Can our deep past help us secure our future?

What can the history of life teach us about designing a future in which humanity can thrive?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Can our deep past help us secure our future?
PUBLICATION | UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | 2025

Building Bridges for Ukraine: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity

A UCL white paper explores how Ukraine’s reconstruction can support lasting prosperity, with Ukrainians at the centre of its design and delivery.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building Bridges for Ukraine white paper cover
FEATURE | Sustainable Ventures | 2023 | 0:54

The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures

The Prince of Wales meets Ehab Sayed and other climate technology founders during a visit to Sustainable Ventures.

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The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | British Board of Agrément | 2022 | 17:05

BBA: Building on Heritage of Innovation

A BBA roundtable asks how construction can accelerate innovation through education, shared intelligence and new approaches to testing.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building on Heritage of Innovation
FEATURE | Forbes | 2024

Forbes: Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win

A Forbes feature explores the relationship between biomimicry and artificial intelligence, including Biohm’s work with living systems.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Apollo 17 Blue Marble photograph used as the lead image for the Forbes feature Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win
FILM | The Index Project | 2021 | 3:35

Biohm: The Index Award 2021

The Index Project introduces Biohm’s approach to material innovation in its film for The Index Award 2021.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
BIOHM — The Index Award 2021
TALK & CONVERSATION | World Economic Forum | Radio Davos | 2021

Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world

A Radio Davos episode introduces UpLink and some of the ideas being developed to address global challenges.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Circular Economy Show | 2023 | 7:33

Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium

The Circular Economy Show explores Biohm’s use of mycelium to develop building materials from waste.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium
TALK & CONVERSATION | London Design Biennale · Chatham House | 2024 | 38:47

Chatham House: London Design Biennale | Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future?

Ehab Sayed joins a London Design Biennale panel at Chatham House to explore how design can help transform economies for a bio-based future.

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Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future? panel at the London Design Biennale Summit at Chatham House.
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Doctoral Thesis | Northumbria University | 2022

Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment

Ehab Sayed’s doctoral thesis investigates biomimicry as a basis for systemic innovation in the built environment.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Talks at Google | 2019

Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds

Ehab Sayed presents Biohm’s approach to circular construction in a Talks at Google conversation about food waste and future buildings.

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Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | BBC Four | 2018 | 59 MIN

BBC Four | The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age

BBC Four explores the materials shaping modern life, including Biohm’s early work with biological construction materials.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age
PUBLICATION | Architectural Design | Vol. 96.1: Biodesign in Architecture | 2026

The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign

Ehab Sayed contributes to Architectural Design’s Biodesign in Architecture issue with an essay examining the place of life within design.

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The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign
PUBLICATION | Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design | Birkhäuser | 2026

Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony

Ehab Sayed’s chapter in Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design explores biomimetic transformation, from fungal networks to wider relationships across the cosmos.

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Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Klosters Forum Podcast | 2023 | 23:41

Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Hannah MacInnes to discuss why construction needs to rethink its established practices.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction
FEATURE | Fast Company | 2021

Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms

Fast Company examines Biohm’s development of mycelium insulation as an alternative for the construction industry.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms
FEATURE | The Guardian | 2020

The Guardian | Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?

The Guardian examines Biohm’s use of biotechnology to rethink materials for construction.

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Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Circular Economy Show Podcast | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | 2023

Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy

Ehab Sayed joins the Circular Economy Show Podcast to discuss biotechnology and the possibility of growing our buildings.

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Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | Biomimicry Institute | Ray of Hope Prize | 2021 | 3:03

Training Fungi to Turn Waste into Green Building Materials: From Mycelium to Insulation

A Biomimicry Institute film introduces Biohm’s work turning waste into mycelium building materials.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
From Mycelium to Insulation
FEATURE | Dezeen | 2021

Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings

Dezeen explores Biohm’s mycelium insulation and its potential role in reducing the impact of buildings.

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Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings
FEATURE | Material Source | 2023

6° Hayes Pavilion | Glastonbury Festival 2023

Material Source explores the mycelium materials behind Glastonbury’s Hayes Pavilion and its 6° installation.

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6° Hayes Pavilion — Glastonbury Festival 2023
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Exeter Centre for Circular Economy | 2022 | 6:45

Biohm | Ehab Sayed

A short Exeter Centre for Circular Economy interview with Ehab Sayed about Biohm and the ideas behind its work.

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Biohm — Ehab Sayed
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology | 2019

Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future

A book chapter examines how biomimetic thinking could inform innovation in offsite construction.

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Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Neighbourhoods of the Future | 2019

A bio-revolution in home construction

A contribution to Neighbourhoods of the Future explores a biological approach to home construction.

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A bio-revolution in home construction
FEATURE | CGTN Europe | RAZOR | 2020 | 15:00

CGTN Europe: Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community

CGTN Europe’s RAZOR explores Biohm’s fungal research and its relationship with local manufacturing and regeneration.

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Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community
FEATURE | The Observer | The Guardian | 2022

The Guardian | The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world

The Guardian explores the growing interest in fungi and their relationships with the wider living world.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world
FEATURE | HuffPost | 2020

HuffPost: Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World

HuffPost explores the environmental possibilities of fungi, including Biohm’s work with mycelium.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | The Guardian | 2018

The Guardian: Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators

The Guardian visits London’s Open Cell community to explore emerging work at the intersection of biology and design.

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Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Getting in the Loop | 2020

Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Getting in the Loop to discuss regenerative design, circular materials and construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Re-think Circular Economy Forum | Tondo | 2022 | 13:57

A Biomimetic Future

Ehab Sayed explores the possibility of a biomimetic future in a talk for Tondo’s Re-think Circular Economy Forum.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A Biomimetic Future
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Green Architecture Sessions | Brighton Permaculture Trust | 2020

A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity

Ehab Sayed and Sally Lowndes discuss how nature can inform the built environment and the restoration of local equity.

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A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity
FEATURE | Cundall | 2022

Sustainnovation: Obscure lampshades

Cundall’s Sustainnovation series introduces Obscure lampshades and the use of organic waste in product design.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Sustainnovation — Obscure lampshades
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | Time Out London | 2020

Time Out: The plant-based building

Time Out London considers Biohm’s biological building materials in a feature on the future of housing.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Time Out: The plant-based building
PERSPECTIVES

More perspectives.
Wider frames.
Deeper realities.

Perspectives is an evolving collection of ideas, arguments and encounters that question the frames through which we understand reality.

From complex systems and the intelligence of living worlds to artificial minds, culture, consciousness, matter, cosmos and the human search for meaning, these essays, films, conversations and publications are invitations to look again.

ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

How to Be Right
About the Wrong World

What if our most consequential mistakes begin with a picture that is perfectly correct?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Conceptual editorial interpretation of Brunelleschi’s perspective experiment, showing fixed architecture beneath a sky left open to the changing world.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 13 MIN READ

What Must We Give Up?

What if the choice between two competing needs is the very thing that needs to change?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
An empty executive room arranged around marked opposing corners, with a city beyond.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

When Capital Runs Out of Patience

What happens when an extraordinary possibility is forced to follow an ordinary financial timetable?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A young tree and a clock stand together on a boardroom table.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

The Stories We Mistake for Nature

What happens when the stories shaping our relationship with nature become the inheritance of artificial intelligence?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A luminous sun sends streams of energy towards Earth above a living coastal landscape.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

A Species Above Its Station

What gives one species the right to place itself above the life that makes its existence possible?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
An empty executive chair stands on a plinth within a mountain wetland.
TALK & CONVERSATION | TEDxBoston | 2025

Can our deep past help us secure our future?

What can the history of life teach us about designing a future in which humanity can thrive?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Can our deep past help us secure our future?
PUBLICATION | UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | 2025

Building Bridges for Ukraine: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity

A UCL white paper explores how Ukraine’s reconstruction can support lasting prosperity, with Ukrainians at the centre of its design and delivery.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building Bridges for Ukraine white paper cover
FEATURE | Sustainable Ventures | 2023 | 0:54

The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures

The Prince of Wales meets Ehab Sayed and other climate technology founders during a visit to Sustainable Ventures.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | British Board of Agrément | 2022 | 17:05

BBA: Building on Heritage of Innovation

A BBA roundtable asks how construction can accelerate innovation through education, shared intelligence and new approaches to testing.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building on Heritage of Innovation
FEATURE | Forbes | 2024

Forbes: Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win

A Forbes feature explores the relationship between biomimicry and artificial intelligence, including Biohm’s work with living systems.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Apollo 17 Blue Marble photograph used as the lead image for the Forbes feature Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win
FILM | The Index Project | 2021 | 3:35

Biohm: The Index Award 2021

The Index Project introduces Biohm’s approach to material innovation in its film for The Index Award 2021.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
BIOHM — The Index Award 2021
TALK & CONVERSATION | World Economic Forum | Radio Davos | 2021

Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world

A Radio Davos episode introduces UpLink and some of the ideas being developed to address global challenges.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Circular Economy Show | 2023 | 7:33

Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium

The Circular Economy Show explores Biohm’s use of mycelium to develop building materials from waste.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium
TALK & CONVERSATION | London Design Biennale · Chatham House | 2024 | 38:47

Chatham House: London Design Biennale | Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future?

Ehab Sayed joins a London Design Biennale panel at Chatham House to explore how design can help transform economies for a bio-based future.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future? panel at the London Design Biennale Summit at Chatham House.
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Doctoral Thesis | Northumbria University | 2022

Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment

Ehab Sayed’s doctoral thesis investigates biomimicry as a basis for systemic innovation in the built environment.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Talks at Google | 2019

Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds

Ehab Sayed presents Biohm’s approach to circular construction in a Talks at Google conversation about food waste and future buildings.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | BBC Four | 2018 | 59 MIN

BBC Four | The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age

BBC Four explores the materials shaping modern life, including Biohm’s early work with biological construction materials.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age
PUBLICATION | Architectural Design | Vol. 96.1: Biodesign in Architecture | 2026

The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign

Ehab Sayed contributes to Architectural Design’s Biodesign in Architecture issue with an essay examining the place of life within design.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign
PUBLICATION | Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design | Birkhäuser | 2026

Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony

Ehab Sayed’s chapter in Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design explores biomimetic transformation, from fungal networks to wider relationships across the cosmos.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Klosters Forum Podcast | 2023 | 23:41

Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Hannah MacInnes to discuss why construction needs to rethink its established practices.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction
FEATURE | Fast Company | 2021

Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms

Fast Company examines Biohm’s development of mycelium insulation as an alternative for the construction industry.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms
FEATURE | The Guardian | 2020

The Guardian | Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?

The Guardian examines Biohm’s use of biotechnology to rethink materials for construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Circular Economy Show Podcast | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | 2023

Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy

Ehab Sayed joins the Circular Economy Show Podcast to discuss biotechnology and the possibility of growing our buildings.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | Biomimicry Institute | Ray of Hope Prize | 2021 | 3:03

Training Fungi to Turn Waste into Green Building Materials: From Mycelium to Insulation

A Biomimicry Institute film introduces Biohm’s work turning waste into mycelium building materials.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
From Mycelium to Insulation
FEATURE | Dezeen | 2021

Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings

Dezeen explores Biohm’s mycelium insulation and its potential role in reducing the impact of buildings.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings
FEATURE | Material Source | 2023

6° Hayes Pavilion | Glastonbury Festival 2023

Material Source explores the mycelium materials behind Glastonbury’s Hayes Pavilion and its 6° installation.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
6° Hayes Pavilion — Glastonbury Festival 2023
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Exeter Centre for Circular Economy | 2022 | 6:45

Biohm | Ehab Sayed

A short Exeter Centre for Circular Economy interview with Ehab Sayed about Biohm and the ideas behind its work.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm — Ehab Sayed
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology | 2019

Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future

A book chapter examines how biomimetic thinking could inform innovation in offsite construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Neighbourhoods of the Future | 2019

A bio-revolution in home construction

A contribution to Neighbourhoods of the Future explores a biological approach to home construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A bio-revolution in home construction
FEATURE | CGTN Europe | RAZOR | 2020 | 15:00

CGTN Europe: Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community

CGTN Europe’s RAZOR explores Biohm’s fungal research and its relationship with local manufacturing and regeneration.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community
FEATURE | The Observer | The Guardian | 2022

The Guardian | The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world

The Guardian explores the growing interest in fungi and their relationships with the wider living world.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world
FEATURE | HuffPost | 2020

HuffPost: Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World

HuffPost explores the environmental possibilities of fungi, including Biohm’s work with mycelium.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | The Guardian | 2018

The Guardian: Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators

The Guardian visits London’s Open Cell community to explore emerging work at the intersection of biology and design.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Getting in the Loop | 2020

Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Getting in the Loop to discuss regenerative design, circular materials and construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Re-think Circular Economy Forum | Tondo | 2022 | 13:57

A Biomimetic Future

Ehab Sayed explores the possibility of a biomimetic future in a talk for Tondo’s Re-think Circular Economy Forum.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A Biomimetic Future
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Green Architecture Sessions | Brighton Permaculture Trust | 2020

A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity

Ehab Sayed and Sally Lowndes discuss how nature can inform the built environment and the restoration of local equity.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity
FEATURE | Cundall | 2022

Sustainnovation: Obscure lampshades

Cundall’s Sustainnovation series introduces Obscure lampshades and the use of organic waste in product design.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Sustainnovation — Obscure lampshades
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | Time Out London | 2020

Time Out: The plant-based building

Time Out London considers Biohm’s biological building materials in a feature on the future of housing.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Time Out: The plant-based building
PERSPECTIVES

More perspectives.
Wider frames.
Deeper realities.

Perspectives is an evolving collection of ideas, arguments and encounters that question the frames through which we understand reality.

From complex systems and the intelligence of living worlds to artificial minds, culture, consciousness, matter, cosmos and the human search for meaning, these essays, films, conversations and publications are invitations to look again.

ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

How to Be Right
About the Wrong World

What if our most consequential mistakes begin with a picture that is perfectly correct?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Conceptual editorial interpretation of Brunelleschi’s perspective experiment, showing fixed architecture beneath a sky left open to the changing world.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 13 MIN READ

What Must We Give Up?

What if the choice between two competing needs is the very thing that needs to change?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
An empty executive room arranged around marked opposing corners, with a city beyond.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

When Capital Runs Out of Patience

What happens when an extraordinary possibility is forced to follow an ordinary financial timetable?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A young tree and a clock stand together on a boardroom table.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 12 MIN READ

The Stories We Mistake for Nature

What happens when the stories shaping our relationship with nature become the inheritance of artificial intelligence?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
A luminous sun sends streams of energy towards Earth above a living coastal landscape.
ESSAY | UNFRL Perspectives | 2026 | 11 MIN READ

A Species Above Its Station

What gives one species the right to place itself above the life that makes its existence possible?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
An empty executive chair stands on a plinth within a mountain wetland.
TALK & CONVERSATION | TEDxBoston | 2025

Can our deep past help us secure our future?

What can the history of life teach us about designing a future in which humanity can thrive?

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Can our deep past help us secure our future?
PUBLICATION | UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | 2025

Building Bridges for Ukraine: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity

A UCL white paper explores how Ukraine’s reconstruction can support lasting prosperity, with Ukrainians at the centre of its design and delivery.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building Bridges for Ukraine white paper cover
FEATURE | Sustainable Ventures | 2023 | 0:54

The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures

The Prince of Wales meets Ehab Sayed and other climate technology founders during a visit to Sustainable Ventures.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The Prince of Wales celebrates climate tech innovation at Sustainable Ventures
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | British Board of Agrément | 2022 | 17:05

BBA: Building on Heritage of Innovation

A BBA roundtable asks how construction can accelerate innovation through education, shared intelligence and new approaches to testing.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Building on Heritage of Innovation
FEATURE | Forbes | 2024

Forbes: Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win

A Forbes feature explores the relationship between biomimicry and artificial intelligence, including Biohm’s work with living systems.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Apollo 17 Blue Marble photograph used as the lead image for the Forbes feature Interesting Biomimicry For The AI Win
FILM | The Index Project | 2021 | 3:35

Biohm: The Index Award 2021

The Index Project introduces Biohm’s approach to material innovation in its film for The Index Award 2021.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
BIOHM — The Index Award 2021
TALK & CONVERSATION | World Economic Forum | Radio Davos | 2021

Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world

A Radio Davos episode introduces UpLink and some of the ideas being developed to address global challenges.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Radio Davos: Big ideas that could save the world
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Circular Economy Show | 2023 | 7:33

Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium

The Circular Economy Show explores Biohm’s use of mycelium to develop building materials from waste.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm: Transforming the built environment with mycelium
TALK & CONVERSATION | London Design Biennale · Chatham House | 2024 | 38:47

Chatham House: London Design Biennale | Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future?

Ehab Sayed joins a London Design Biennale panel at Chatham House to explore how design can help transform economies for a bio-based future.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Are We Ready for a Bio-Based Future? panel at the London Design Biennale Summit at Chatham House.
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Doctoral Thesis | Northumbria University | 2022

Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment

Ehab Sayed’s doctoral thesis investigates biomimicry as a basis for systemic innovation in the built environment.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetic Intelligence for Systemic Innovation in the Built Environment
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Talks at Google | 2019

Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds

Ehab Sayed presents Biohm’s approach to circular construction in a Talks at Google conversation about food waste and future buildings.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biohm: Food Waste to Future Builds
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | BBC Four | 2018 | 59 MIN

BBC Four | The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age

BBC Four explores the materials shaping modern life, including Biohm’s early work with biological construction materials.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age
PUBLICATION | Architectural Design | Vol. 96.1: Biodesign in Architecture | 2026

The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign

Ehab Sayed contributes to Architectural Design’s Biodesign in Architecture issue with an essay examining the place of life within design.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
The ‘Bios’ in Biodesign
PUBLICATION | Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design | Birkhäuser | 2026

Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony

Ehab Sayed’s chapter in Mycelium Resources in Architecture and Design explores biomimetic transformation, from fungal networks to wider relationships across the cosmos.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetic Transformation: From Sprawling Hyphae to Cosmic Harmony
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Klosters Forum Podcast | 2023 | 23:41

Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Hannah MacInnes to discuss why construction needs to rethink its established practices.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Biomimetics and their role in the Future of Construction
FEATURE | Fast Company | 2021

Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms

Fast Company examines Biohm’s development of mycelium insulation as an alternative for the construction industry.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Fast Company: Your next house could be insulated by mushrooms
FEATURE | The Guardian | 2020

The Guardian | Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?

The Guardian examines Biohm’s use of biotechnology to rethink materials for construction.

VIEW PERSPECTIVE →
Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?
TALK & CONVERSATION | The Circular Economy Show Podcast | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | 2023

Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy

Ehab Sayed joins the Circular Economy Show Podcast to discuss biotechnology and the possibility of growing our buildings.

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Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economy
FILM | FOUNDATIONS | Biomimicry Institute | Ray of Hope Prize | 2021 | 3:03

Training Fungi to Turn Waste into Green Building Materials: From Mycelium to Insulation

A Biomimicry Institute film introduces Biohm’s work turning waste into mycelium building materials.

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From Mycelium to Insulation
FEATURE | Dezeen | 2021

Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings

Dezeen explores Biohm’s mycelium insulation and its potential role in reducing the impact of buildings.

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Dezeen: Mycelium is “part of the solution” to carbon-negative buildings
FEATURE | Material Source | 2023

6° Hayes Pavilion | Glastonbury Festival 2023

Material Source explores the mycelium materials behind Glastonbury’s Hayes Pavilion and its 6° installation.

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6° Hayes Pavilion — Glastonbury Festival 2023
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Exeter Centre for Circular Economy | 2022 | 6:45

Biohm | Ehab Sayed

A short Exeter Centre for Circular Economy interview with Ehab Sayed about Biohm and the ideas behind its work.

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Biohm — Ehab Sayed
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology | 2019

Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future

A book chapter examines how biomimetic thinking could inform innovation in offsite construction.

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Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future
PUBLICATION | FOUNDATIONS | Neighbourhoods of the Future | 2019

A bio-revolution in home construction

A contribution to Neighbourhoods of the Future explores a biological approach to home construction.

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A bio-revolution in home construction
FEATURE | CGTN Europe | RAZOR | 2020 | 15:00

CGTN Europe: Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community

CGTN Europe’s RAZOR explores Biohm’s fungal research and its relationship with local manufacturing and regeneration.

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Plastic-hungry fungus rebuilds a community
FEATURE | The Observer | The Guardian | 2022

The Guardian | The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world

The Guardian explores the growing interest in fungi and their relationships with the wider living world.

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The magic of mushrooms: how they connect the plant world
FEATURE | HuffPost | 2020

HuffPost: Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World

HuffPost explores the environmental possibilities of fungi, including Biohm’s work with mycelium.

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Why People Think Mushrooms Could Save The World
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | The Guardian | 2018

The Guardian: Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators

The Guardian visits London’s Open Cell community to explore emerging work at the intersection of biology and design.

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Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Getting in the Loop | 2020

Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction

Ehab Sayed joins Getting in the Loop to discuss regenerative design, circular materials and construction.

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Regenerative Design for a Circular Economy in Buildings & Construction
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Re-think Circular Economy Forum | Tondo | 2022 | 13:57

A Biomimetic Future

Ehab Sayed explores the possibility of a biomimetic future in a talk for Tondo’s Re-think Circular Economy Forum.

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A Biomimetic Future
TALK & CONVERSATION | FOUNDATIONS | Green Architecture Sessions | Brighton Permaculture Trust | 2020

A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity

Ehab Sayed and Sally Lowndes discuss how nature can inform the built environment and the restoration of local equity.

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A Biomimetic Future: How can nature inspire us to revolutionise the built environment and restore local equity
FEATURE | Cundall | 2022

Sustainnovation: Obscure lampshades

Cundall’s Sustainnovation series introduces Obscure lampshades and the use of organic waste in product design.

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Sustainnovation — Obscure lampshades
FEATURE | FOUNDATIONS | Time Out London | 2020

Time Out: The plant-based building

Time Out London considers Biohm’s biological building materials in a feature on the future of housing.

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Time Out: The plant-based building
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