Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology. She is the founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising seventy art organizations across Europe, Latin America, the United States, Canada and Asia and of the Future Materials Bank; a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. The mission of both is to foster relationships and knowledge exchange that contributes to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium. She is a self-proclaimed mycophile, interested in exploring the application of a mycological lens in defining fair models of collaboration and (self) organization. Her debut book, Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, came out in 2023 and is being translated in over five languages. After a year long of conducting workshops based on the book, all the learnings and further thoughts were brought together in a deck of Oracle Cards, weaving together Yasmine’s many encounters from fungi-enthusiasts in Asia, Latin-America, Europe and the Caribbean.