Trees are communicating and sharing information right under our feet using a mycelium network: a complex and collaborative structure that has become known as the ‘Wood Wide Web’. Trees use the mycelium as pathways to connect, feed, and communicate with one another. Parent trees can identify their relatives and send signals and nutrition through mycelium networks. Through the mycelium network, the forest becomes a single organism with group intelligence.

Symbiosis is an exploration of the language of trees from a non-anthropocentric perspective, and mycelium is a design collaborator. Five handmade bio-electrical sensors are placed at different locations in Epping Forest, London, transmitting data on the mycelium's vital activity (electrical signals) in real-time to the exhibition space via a cloud-based network. The result is an immersive audio-visual experience. The changing soundscape represents the whisper of the mycelium, and the flowing light presents the nutrient transport through the mycelium network. The aim of this project is for the audience to understand the world from the perspective of the rhizome, in a dialogue with the forest and living in symbiosis with nature.