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Entangled Systems is a speculative material inquiry beyond the obsolescence of discarded digital media—an experiment in the interplay between digital media waste and fungal networks.

In this museum of obsolescence, imagined, reside renewed living systems, found growing in electronic waste landfills.

Set 100 years in the future, it envisions a world where obsolete technologies, buried in the soil, have evolved without human interference and become entangled with non-human ecologies. Living sculptures of mycelium and obsolete media explore how decaying digital forms meet fungi—and the hybrid bio-digital materialities that may emerge. It reframes obsolete digital media as living repositories of memory, both material and digital.

And finally, prompts us to rethink digital media not as ephemeral things, but as living systems, hopefully encouraging more responsible and conscious design practices in the future.