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CITIES Foundation together with the Municipality of Amsterdam, is co-organizing an exhibition/workshop about Urban Agriculture. This event will take place during the Week of Sustainability, a 9 days program made by the city of Amsterdam to support and promote sustainable projects in the city.

CITIES, a platform for urban research based in Amsterdam, is currently researching and promoting alternative approaches for the development of temporary urban agriculture practice. The exhibition is part of the 'Farming the Cities' project.

Field-testing the Boskoi app and mapping the terrain of the demolished Calve (peanut-butter and mayonnaise) factory, during the Anarchitecture festival. http://www.levenaanhetspoor.nl/projecten-aan-het-spoor/anarchitecture

A wartime food storage prepared from local wild plants is presented by Wietske Maas at the fortress Ruigenhoek in the Netherlands. FoAM Amsterdam assisted with the map showing edible plant locations. Claud Biemans who helped with plant spotting, will give several plant excursions on the opening Sunday.

Exploring the unplanned forest with Wilfried. FoAM Amsterdam will present the Boskoi mobile phone foraging application.
See: http://fightthegooglejugend.com/

A solstice festivity celebrating the interactions between the human and the vegetal realms during a picnic in the Belgian Ardennes.

If you'd like to join, send an email to bxl [at] fo [dot] am at the latest on Friday the 18th of June 2010.

Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl of Loop.ph conduct an exploratory workshop on lightweight structures and hydroponic techniques for vertical gardening.

http://www.loop.ph/bin/view/Loop/MetaboliCity

A supper for pathologic appetites will be served 19:00h on 18 October 2009 in the W.G kunst, a former sanatorium as part of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis hospital complex, Amsterdam.

We are very proud to present our new site, displaying current and future missions, technical info and nice pictures. http://www.missiontothemoon.nl/

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, the Foamlab astronaut team will be re-enacting this historic event at the Space Expo centre that belongs to the ESA (European Space Agency) in Noordwijk. The event possibly will be shown by live-stream video to Museum Boerhave, Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10 in Leiden, The Netherlands.

EcoArt, lecture in cooperation with artist and scientist Boo Chapple, environmental artist / ecological researcher Brandon Ballengée and artist, bioartist Andy Gracie from England and FoAM member Theun Karelse.

Tuesday 26 May, at 8 pm in the Theatrum Anatomicum of the Waag. Entrance is free.

When astronauts return into the Ionosphere of the Earth, after yet another space mission, make their way though endless layers of spacejunk and touch down on the planet, who is waiting for them?
Is anybody still interested in their adventures?

Astronauts Johannes Sterk and Elias Tieleman are expected to arrive at 'In Search of the Unknown' an exhibition at NIMk, Amsterdam around 18:00 hours. (local time)

Meeting of Art and Science centers at NOW - CCCB

Theun Karelse will participate in a panel discussion with Adam Bly, Michael John Gorman and Marcos García. The participants will discuss about the role, function and formats of hybrid centres for art, science and technology in light of the "new culture" generated by the network society.

http://www.cccb.org/now/ca/
http://www.cccb.org/now/en/activitat-networks_nodes_and_bridges-30044

previous events for 2008 can be found in the calendar.

• Real Code at Piksel 08 festival
• 48 degrees Celsius
• Winter Solstice

http://fo.am/event/2008/11/01/list/all/all

• gRig's All Hallow's Eve
• Recipes for Disaster
• Food pairing & Molecular Gastronomy
• Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio
• Edible Perfume

On the longest day of the year two astronauts land in Amsterdam-West. They do a warm-up jog on the square before going into the Jerusalem Church where they get fitted into their suits.

According to palaeontologysts the first objects to be vererated were meteorites, and the metal in them. Later this was extended to monoliths, which were used as burial stones or judgementstones. In time this would also include stone statues, ivory or wooden statues, and long after that all kinds of religious relics and works of art. But it started apparently with astroliths.

A re-enactment of the Apollo 11 mission of 1969. Foamlab not only recycles this icon of technological confidence, but also the materials used to build it. At the exhibition 'Kunstvlaai / Art Pie International', two brave astronauts; Elias Tieleman and Johannes Sterk, can be seen jogging around in preparation for their mission. They exit the Lander accompanied by the original sound recordings from the Moon landing in '69, for general exploration of the lunar-surface, setting-up lunar camera's, collecting stone samples and planting the flag.