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Tanglebots
We ask for the theoretical points where weaving and computer programming connect and develop codes and code machines to pursue these questions.
Durf Falen: Keep it Simple
Keep it Simple: Langeafstandsknuffelmachine wordt persoonlijke nachtmerrie, an article by Kira Van Den Ende based on an interview with Maja Kuzmanovic about one of FoAM's biggest failures: lyt_A
Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times
This paper discusses why working with futures is particularly relevant in times of social and environmental turbulence and suggests that a more widespread futures literacy can increase agency in uncertain conditions. We provide examples of FoAM’s works with experiential futures, to illustrate our experimental approach, aiming to bridge the gap between future visions and everyday life.
A grassroots remote sensing toolkit using live coding, smartphones, kites and lightweight drones
This manuscript describes the development of an android-based smartphone application for capturing aerial photographs and spatial metadata automatically, for use in grassroots mapping applications.
stillness
Stillness is a visual wandering, a series of stills from a world in incessant motion. Nik Gaffney's photographs, taken over the course of one lunar year, are observations on materiality and time at turns ethereal, evocative and timeless.
Organoleptic Interfaces: Exploring Embodied Methods in Foodscapes
In the move to re-acquaint urban green and in-between spaces as solely parks and open spaces, this research looks to the concept of emerging foodscapes to form a transformative behaviour with food in the city. Urban population growth, unstable food security, environmental consequences of industrial food production are all motives for concern, alongside individual awareness of food provisioning, seasonal availability and behaviour.
GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture
At the intersections of culture, gardening and technology, we investigate how plants could become organisational principles for human society in the 21st century.
Het verlangen te kunnen omdenken
Een burn-out ontstaat wanneer de kloof tussen je eigen diepe overtuigingen en de overlevingspatronen van je dagelijkse praktijk te groot geworden is. Daar waar passie en onmacht elkaar ontmoeten. Elk tijdperk kent zijn valstrikken, en uitgeput zijn is van alle tijden. Wat echter telt, is hoe we ermee omgaan.
stillness (series)
stillness is a collection of ambient photobooks, a year long series of experiments with ethereality, materiality and time. Each issue is published by FoAM on or near the new moons of the lunar year 2015/2016.
Thriving in Uncertainty
Thriving in Uncertainty discusses the uses of idleness and inhabiting transitions in and beyond the world of arts and culture.
Time for an Urban (Re)evolution – Negotiating Body, Space and Food
artistic method of butoh dance for an urban ecology
A Futurist's Fieldguide
A workbook and manual for people interested in experimenting with futuring techniques in practice.
Extracting Urban Food Potential: design-based methods for digital and bodily cartography
A bodily and digital cartography exploration for foodscapes
Futurish
Futurish is a rough-and-ready collection of thoughts and propositions related to futures, everyday life, experience and storytelling. It documents the Data Ecologies Symposium 2014 organised by Time's Up in Linz, Austria. The Book Sprint methodology, described as a "self-documenting conference", seemed like an appropriate way to gather the participants' excitement around thinking out loud about futures.
Approaching the Inexplicable
In the slow swarm of light they remain silent, luminous. Eyes in the place of eyes, Ears in the place of ears, tongues tasting chemical gradients across the fungal network of thread-like cells.
Resilients Handbook
Reflections and working notes on transforming the concept of resilience into concrete practices, experimental social structures and real-life labs.
Improving Realities
Transcription of FoAM's talk at Improving Reality 2013 conference
Borrowed Scenery: Cultivating an Alternate Reality
Inspired by 'Borrowed Scenery' gardening, FoAM developed an alternate reality narrative about a plant-inspired world, unfolding through hints, suggestions and immersive ambiance.
Borrowed Scenery short film
This film is about the physical narrative of Borrowed Scenery, a story about an alternate reality where plants are a central aspect of human society.
Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive
A paper on the use of smartphone software in citizen science and reserch tools published in Ecology and Evolution.
Magic, Mistakes and the multitude of the matter
Transcription of FoAM's talk at Design March 2013 in Iceland
Unmanned Aerial Ecologies
In many ways, media artists are uniquely qualified to frame a contemporary conversation about drones. Because today to have an interest in drone technologies, whether for military or civilian use, is to have a concern with, and interest in, the networked information space in which they belong. And that is the space that media artists, particularly artists who work from a tactical media perspective, are experts in.
PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives
On learning, creating, presenting and improving alternate realities and physical narratives.
Prehearsal Pocket Guide
This is a step-by-step guide to holding prehearsals for home futurists, distributed collectives and people with complex life-changing questions. It is a work in progress which has been tested with individuals and small groups, and will be revised and refined as more prehearsals are realised.
The Story of Tarot
Tarot is a pack of cards used from mid-fifteenth century to play card games, and includes Tarocchi/Tarocchini in Italy, Tarot in France and Tarock in Germany. However, Tarot is best known as a divination tool, popularised in the eighteenth century by mystics and occultists of Europe, used for discovering and expanding mental and spiritual pathways. Since then, Tarot has developed into an elaborate fortune-telling system.
Words which Matter to People
Resilience is a technical term, one which has spread along with the influence of systems thinking and come into use in a widening range of academic and professional fields. But it has no cultural roots; which is to say, it is not grounded in the experience of people’s lives and the ways in which people have made sense of that experience. Instead, with its aura of expert detachment, it belongs to that category of words by which we hold things at a distance. I doubt that anyone would joke about resilience in the way that Finns can joke about sisu, and for this reason I doubt that anyone can take it so seriously.
Prehearsing the Future
At FoAM we wondered how we could “rehearse” a possible future before it came to pass. How we could experience living in different scenarios and observe our reactions to them. Would such an immersive experience change our views about which scenarios might be most desirable? Could we cultivate more resilient mindsets and behaviours (i.e. being able to adapt and respond to challenging conditions, without loosing the essence of who we are and what we want to do) by “rehearsing” a future scenario?
Exploring and Designing our Future Robot Companions
This documentary focuses on the people behind the robots, in several thematically clustered interviews, interspersed with impressions of the robotic entities and devices in action.
Foodprints
Exploring the role of food in the functioning of society, FOODPRINTS discusses food strategies, urban metabolism and resilient futures of the Stockholm cityscape.
Hapstar: automated haplotype network layout and visualization
Haplotype Networks and Minimum Spanning Networks are commonly used for representing associations between sequences. HapStar is a tool for viewing both types of networks, and is designed to directly use the output data generated from Arlequin. HapStar is unique in that it automatically lays out the network for optimal visualisation, and provides the option to calculate a Minimum Spanning Network from a list of alternative connections. HapStar provides a user-friendly interface, and publication-ready figures can be exported simply.
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