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Dust and Shadow
Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace
Dust and shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University), exploring environmental issues specific to the desert of the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with speculative design and action research to explore divergent approaches to desertification (both ecological and cultural), zombie-utopias, panpsychism, beyond-human relationships and probabilistic future preparedness.
In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU).
- fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com
- FoAM activity page: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/
Field trips
- fieldtrip 3 planned for March 2018
- fieldript 4 planned for spring 2019
timecycles
How all of this might unfold (TBC and subject to change without notice)
- Spring 2017 (may/june): fieldtrip, observations, questions, travelogue, etc.
- Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research questions, literature research, mapping, etc.
- Fall 2017 (end november → ~15th december): FoAM presentation/talk at LCT, research retreat, formulating hypotheses/propositions for experiments, commonplace publication pt1
- Spring 2018: temporary FoAM lab @ ASU: prototyping, experiments (first iteration), FoAM's 'injections' in (graduate) courses (?), commonplace publication pt2 (fieldguide for further experiments)
- Fall 2018 (or spring 2019): Second action research cycle, ending in a public experiment, printed publication (and possibly an 'exploded publication' in the form of an exhibition)
- (+ continuous online documentation)
publication(s)
- in progress → reader_1
- book and booklets as a proposition
We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark