Various organisations including Citamine and GLIMPS have decided to reuse coffee waste by starting a circular oyster mushroom which in turn aims to encourage bottom-up innovation in the city with a system that should be easily reproducible.  

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With these goals, MushRoom was created to enable urban circular fungiculture. An opensource* platform that aims to collaborate with all different stakeholders in Mechelen. The idea is to help reduce waste and help the city become self-sufficient food producers. We designed 6 types of reproduceable rooms; the Nursery, the Community, the Members, the Shop, the Drop off Points and the Design studio ROOMs. 

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*An open-source network is the practice of providing DIY knowledge of products or systems for free, so that the broader community can redistribute or remodify. Open source is to shared knowledge in the effort to help the community to create a product or system by themselves with their own skill set and the available materials