She arranged soil into the shape of the British land mass, and marked cities using blocks of wood colonised with a fungus (the sulphur tuft, or Hypholoma fasciculare). The size of the wood blocks was proportional to the population of the cities they represented. ‘The fungi grew out from the “cities” and made the motorway network,’ Boddy recounted. ‘You could see the M5, M4, M1, M6. I thought it was quite fun.’
Using fungus to design motorways in Britain
