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| Soon after the library was catalogued, one of our families in residence used it in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two-year-old son Adriaan 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 bleeding edge between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we shared the parenting of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of the lab. | Soon after the library was catalogued, one of our families in residence used it in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two-year-old son Adriaan 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 bleeding edge between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we shared the parenting of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of the lab. |
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| Aside from short-form residencies, the library is being 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 artists and other creatives in Flanders and Brussels who feel the need for coaching, so if you're interested, drop us an email at bxl@fo.am. | Aside from short-form residencies, the library is being used extensively by our two current macrotransients, Luea Ritter and Michka Melo. Luea is working on how to facilitate transitions on personal, organisational and even societal scales, while 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 artists and other creatives 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/macrotransiencies/|Macrotransiencies]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/|Macrotransiencies]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/|Lies and Adi Declerck's microresidency]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/|Lies and Adi Declerck's microresidency]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]]\\ |
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| | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: **Doing Nothing**. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points that pervades the cultural sector (but also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. |
| Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: **Doing Nothing**. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector (but also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. | |
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| [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]] | [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]] |
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| To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun, games and inspiring culture, but above all else we wish you plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. Looking forward to seeing you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… | To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun, games and inspiring culture. But above all else we wish you plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. Looking forward to seeing you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… |
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| ==== Outline ==== | |
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| Intro, summarising 'topics', looking back and forward. | |
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| === Food culture === | |
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| * biochymickal arts http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/ | |
| * smoke & vapour http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/ | |
| * foodprints online http://fo.am/foodprints-book/ | |
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| === Speculative culture === | |
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| * FF - outline of what we want to achieve, why ff, plans for 2014 and insights from: | |
| * improving reality - http://fo.am/improving-reality/ | |
| * practical utopias - http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/ | |
| * small revolutions - (needs details) | |
| * parenzana residency | |
| * * http://lib.fo.am/improving_realities - conference paper, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEX8q4HUkI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUCZHVgTT_EpA9-pBaP1aotg | |
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| === Citizen Science – FoAM Kernow === | |
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| * Future of Live coding (Kernow) | |
| * The Farm Crap App (Kernow) | |
| * "Where is that Nest? (Kernow) | |
| * Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive (Kernow) | |
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| === Synaesthetic experiences – FoAM Amsterdam ==== | |
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| * sphaerae | |
| * in linz & todaysArt | |
| * http://fo.am/sphaerae/ | |
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| === Supporting a community of generalists === | |
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| * hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft | |
| * doing nothing | |
| * residencies | |
| * 3 families (lies, sarah, mexicans) | |
| * macro: luea, michka | |
| * coaching (available spots in 2014) | |
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| === Misc === | |
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| * EITC Homecoming | |
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| for orientation and/or comparison here is last winter's edition: http://fo.am/blog/2012/12/22/foam-newsletter-winter-2012/ | |
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