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| [[http://payload19.cargocollective.com/1/6/195556/2699591/Foodprints_ruler%20cover.jpg|Foodprints Ruler]]\\ | [[http://payload19.cargocollective.com/1/6/195556/2699591/Foodprints_ruler%20cover.jpg|Foodprints Ruler]]\\ |
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| == Seculative culture == | == Speculative culture == |
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| In our previous newsletter we celebrated the closure of Resilients and PARN, two of our projects that put our work in speculative culture on the map. Since then the PARN publication has been printed and distributed (if you'd like a copy email us at bxl@fo.am), and we've started **Future Fabulators**, a European project that combines our work with alternate reality narratives and future preparedness and continues our fertile collaboration with Time's Up in Linz. | In our previous newsletter we celebrated the closure of Resilients and PARN, two of our projects that put our work in speculative culture on the map. Since then the PARN publication has been printed and distributed (if you'd like a copy email us at bxl@fo.am), and we've started **Future Fabulators**, a European project that combines our work with alternate reality narratives and future preparedness and continues our fertile collaboration with Time's Up in Linz. |
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| In Future Fabulators we're extending our research into speculative culture, scenario building, future pre-enactments, physical narratives and other forms that embody possible futures today. We began by reflecting on our current work, first at the Improving Reality conference in Brighton, where Maja discussed using future preenactments and alternate reality narratives as ways to guide us through the swarm of possible futures. Following this Nik and Maja headed off to the Brionian islands in Croatia for the Summit of Practical Utopias, a four-day workshop where participants playfully designed and experimented with the seemingly paradoxical notion of creating a utopia that can be practical. We realised that creating and maintaining FoAM is an exercise of practical utopianism, always balancing on the fine edge of becoming impractical. | In Future Fabulators we're extending our research into speculative culture, scenario building, future pre-enactments, physical narratives and other forms that embody possible futures today. We began by reflecting on our current work, first at the **Improving Reality conference** in Brighton, where Maja discussed using future preenactments and alternate reality narratives as ways to guide us through the swarm of possible futures. Following this Nik and Maja headed off to the Brionian islands in Croatia for the **Summit of Practical Utopias**, a four-day workshop where participants playfully designed and experimented with the seemingly paradoxical notion of creating a utopia that can be practical. We realised that creating and maintaining FoAM is an exercise of practical utopianism, always balancing on the fine edge of becoming impractical. |
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| A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed Sarah Neville and her daughter Florence in Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. These residents spent a couple of intensive weeks exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate changes.This residency will continue in our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia in February 2014, and may involve Sarah's possible return to Europe for a Future Fabulators public event. | [[http://fo.am/improving-reality/|Improving Reality conference]] and [[http://libarynth.org/improving_realities|Transcript of Maja's talk]]\\ |
| | [[http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/|Practical Utopias]]\\ |
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| Since September when the project started, we facilitated several scenario planning workshops, fine-tuning the method to different audiences and subject matters. We worked with the Vooruit to design the future of the Possible Futures festival. At the Future Fabulators kick-off in Linz, we investigated what we'd like the legacy of the project to be and more widely - what will happen to fear in about thirty years. With Timelab and Lisa Ma we focused on the future of invasive species in Ghent and beyond. Nik Gaffney participated in AltArt's version of forecasting in Cluj, Romania, looking at the future of the city. We're currently designing a series of scenario workshops with M-ITI (Madeira Institute of Technology) to assist their staff, students and sponsors in designing technologies and programmes that could be used in some of Future Fabulators' physical narratives and pre-enactments. We're also plotting and scheming workshops and seminars for the spring, summer and autumn of 2014, but first we'll take a couple of months to delve into the research of the philosophy, ethics, aesthetic and methodology of speculative culture that will inform most of our activities in 2014. Keep your eyes on the Future Fabulators wiki to find out more as the project develops. | A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed the **residency** of Sarah Neville and her daughter Florence in Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. These residents spent a couple of intensive weeks exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate changes.This residency will continue in our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia in February 2014, and may involve Sarah's possible return to Europe as part of a Future Fabulators public event. |
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| | [[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|Sarah Neville and family in residence]]\\ |
| | [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes, in Progress]]\\ |
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| | Since the start of Future Fabulators in September, we've facilitated several scenario planning workshops, fine-tuning the method to different audiences and subject matters. We worked with the Vooruit to design the future of the Possible Futures festival. At the Future Fabulators kick-off in Linz, we investigated what we'd like the legacy of the project to be and more widely -- what will happen to fear in about thirty years. With Timelab and Lisa Ma we focused on the future of invasive species in Ghent and beyond. Nik Gaffney participated in AltArt's version of forecasting in Cluj, Romania, looking at the future of the city. We're currently designing a series of scenario workshops with Madeira Institute of Technology to assist their staff, students and sponsors in designing technologies and programmes that could be used in some of Future Fabulators' physical narratives and pre-enactments. We're also plotting and scheming workshops and seminars for the spring, summer and autumn of 2014, but first we'll take a couple of months to delve into the research of the philosophy, ethics, aesthetic and methodology of speculative culture that will inform most of our activities in 2014. Keep your eyes on the Future Fabulators wiki to find out more as the project develops. |
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| [[http://fo.am/future-fabulators|Future Fabulators]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/future-fabulators|Future Fabulators]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|Sarah Neville and family in residence]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]]\\ |
| [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes, in Progress]]\\ | |
| [[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/|Future Fabulators work in progress]]\\ | [[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/|Future Fabulators work in progress]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/improving-reality/|Improving Reality conference]] and [[http://libarynth.org/improving_realities|Transcript of Maja's talk]]\\ | |
| [[http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/|Practical Utopias]]\\ | |
| [[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]] | |
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| == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == |
| == Supporting FoAM's community == | == Supporting FoAM's community == |
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| To end we'd like to mention the work of FoAM Brussels focused on facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists, transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our 'services' for the cultural sector and beyond. Firstly we're delighted to let you know that the digital catalogue of our physical library is now online. Alkan has been hamstering in the library cataloguing the publications and sorting them on shelves, so it is much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, allowing not just our audiences, but also ourselves to spend time in the library and perusing its materials. Soon after the library was catalogued, our first residency after the summer recess in 2013 used the library in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two year old son Adi spent a week in FoAM cooking from FoAM's food-related books. This was one of the most unique and generous residency we have ever experienced. Lies experimented with the fine line between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we took care of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of an arts lab. Aside from short-form residencies, the library is extensively used by our two macrotransients Luea Ritter and Michka Melo. Luea is working on writing about how to deal with transitions on a personal, organisational and even societal scales, and Michka (having just started a few weeks ago) has wallpapered a room in post-its containing plans to disentangle from a scientific career and explore the boundaries between self sufficiency and interdependence. Their transiencies are continuing well into 2014, so you can expect updates in the next newsletters. Both Luea and Michka are supported through FoAM's coaching programme, lead by the executive coach and FoAM's board member Vali Lalioti. There are still a few places left for cultural workers in Flanders and Brussels in need of coaching, so if you're interested, drop us an email at bxl@fo.am. | To end we'd like to mention the work of FoAM Brussels focused on facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists, transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our 'services' for the cultural sector and beyond. Firstly we're delighted to let you know that the digital catalogue of our physical library is now online. Alkan has been hamstering in the library cataloguing the publications and sorting them on shelves, so it is much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, giving not just our audiences but also ourselves a chance to spend time in the library and peruse its materials. |
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| | Soon after the library was catalogued, our first residents after the summer recess in 2013 used the library in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two-year-old son Adi spent a week in FoAM cooking from recipes found in FoAM's food-related books. This was one of the most unique and generous residencies we have ever experienced. Lies experimented with the fine line between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we took care of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of an arts lab. |
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| | Aside from short-form residencies, the library is used extensively by our two current macrotransients, Luea Ritter and Michka Melo. Luea is working on how to deal with transitions on personal, organisational and even societal scales, and Michka (having just started a few weeks ago) has wallpapered a loft in Post-Its outlining plans to disentangle from a scientific career and explore the boundaries between self-sufficiency and interdependence. Their transiencies will continue well into 2014, so you can expect further updates in coming newsletters. Both Luea and Michka are supported through FoAM's coaching programme, lead by executive coach and FoAM board member Vali Lalioti. There are still a few places left for cultural workers in Flanders and Brussels who feel the need for coaching, so if you're interested, drop us an email at bxl@fo.am. |
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| [[http://fo.am/services/|Services of FoAM bxl]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/services/|Services]] offered at FoAM bxl\\ |
| [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Digital Catalogue of the FoAM library]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/|Macrotransiencies]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/| Lies and Adi Declerck]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/|Lies and Adi Declerck's microresidency]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/| Macrotransiencies]\\ | [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]] | [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Zotero digital catalogue]] of the FoAM library\\ |
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| hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft --> i don't know how to fit this in... maybe leave it out until the next newsletter? | hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft --> i don't know how to fit this in... maybe leave it out until the next newsletter? |
nik