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Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies
How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?
Een moeras is een taal
Een moeras is een taal (A swamp is a language) is a poetic exploration of an encounter between human bodies and the body of a swamp near Massiaru (Estonia).
Rooted Hauntology Lab: Attempts at vegetal curation
A personal attempt of co-working with plants as ghosts and how this started to shape a curatorial practice that resists extractivism.
AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research
We outline the AccessLab workshop format for decentralising research skills, creating new open access advocates, and building links between communities.
Making Things Physical
A cross-section of FoAM and Timeās Upās work with physical narratives (PNs), which draw upon experiential futures and experience design.
Visualising the urban green volume: Exploring LiDAR voxels with tangible technologies and virtual models
Using waveform LiDAR data to measure the three-dimensional nature of the urban greenspace, we explore different ways of virtually, and tangibly engaging with volumetric models describing the 3D distribution of urban vegetation.
Data collection and storage in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies: The Mongoose 2000 system
We describe a system we have developed called Mongoose 2000 for the study of multiple individuals in the wild over many years.
An emerging viral pathogen
...truncates population age structure in a European amphibian and may reduce population viability. This paper shows for the first time that Ranavirus truncates the age structure of amphibian populations, and that this increase in adult mortality could heighten the vulnerability of frog populations to stochastic environmental challenges.
A novel approach to wildlife transcriptomics
Provides evidence of diseaseāmediated differential expression and changes to the microbiome of amphibian populations. We compared gene expression of frogs with and without epidemic disease, and by chance also find differences in the frog microbiomes indicating an interaction between the microbiome and disease.
An ecological role for assortative mating under infection?
Wildlife diseases are emerging at a higher rate than ever before meaning that understanding their potential impacts is essential, especially for those species and populations that may already be of conservation concern.
Sonic Kayaks: Environmental monitoring and experimental music by citizens
The Sonic Kayak is a musical instrument used to investigate nature and developed during open hacklab events. The kayaks are rigged with underwater environmental sensors, which allow paddlers to hear real-time water temperature sonifications and underwater sounds, generating live music from the marine world.
Textility of Code: A Catalogue of Errors
This article presents a series of informal experiments in software and weaving, most of which were conducted as part of the Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves project.
Coding with Knots
In this paper we explore new ways to approach understanding of the mysterious Precolumbian quipus, using both visual and sonic interpretations. We base our investigation on the Harvard Quipu Archive, starting with graphical visualisation techniques that give us an overall view so we can compare textile structures and perform basic cryptanalysis. We use listening and sonification in order to filter and compare the different modes of data representation (knot type, colour, twist and material). This provides new ways to explore both currently understood and unknown patterns of meaning in quipus.
Population genetic structure in European lobsters: implications for connectivity, diversity and hatchery stocking
In this paper we use genetics to see if lobsters form separate populations around the coast of Cornwall in the UK. This information is useful for conservation organisations which release hatchery reared young lobsters into the wild in an effort to replenish lobster numbers.
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.
Population genetic structure in European lobsters: implications for connectivity, diversity and hatchery stocking
This publication is part of Charlie Ellis' PhD, which was co-supervised by FoAM Kernow. Here we assess lobster population structure at a fine scale in Cornwall, southwestern UK, where a hatchery-stocking operation introduces cultured individuals into the wild stock, and at a broader European level, in order to compare the spatial scale of hatchery releases with that of population connectivity.
Relative advantages of dichromatic and trichromatic color vision in camouflage breaking
This publication results from our Egglab and Project Nightjar citizen-science games. When searching for clutches of eggs ā which were more variable in appearance and shape than the adult nightjars ā the simulated dichromats learnt to detect the clutches faster, but were less sensitive to subtle luminance differences.
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 FoAMās 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.
Time for an Urban (Re)evolution ā Negotiating Body, Space and Food
artistic method of butoh dance for an urban ecology
Extracting Urban Food Potential: design-based methods for digital and bodily cartography
A bodily and digital cartography exploration for foodscapes
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.
Luminous Green
Transdisciplinary discussions and collaborations with a human world that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and living in a fertile symbiosis with the planet.
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.
Human-Scale Systems in Responsive Environments
FoAMās work in responsive environments focuses on how human movement can shape media environments and how responsive media might raise participantsā awareness of their effect on the surroundings.
