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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 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.
-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.
+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.
-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.
+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.
 [[http://fo.am/future-fabulators|Future Fabulators]]\\
 [[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]]\\
-[[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]]
+[[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/|Future Fabulators work in progress]]\\
+[[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes, in Progress]]\\
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