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| We’re calling from bxl, to talk to you about the futures-related work at FoAM. For those of you unfamiliar with our work, FoAM is a network of laboratories for speculative culture, with studios currently in Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Falmouth in the UK (with an occasional temporary studio a bit closer to you - in Glenelg). Nik and I are FoAM’s co-founders and have been working at FoAM for nearly 15 years. | We’re calling from bxl, to talk to you about the futures-related work at FoAM. For those of you unfamiliar with our work, FoAM is a network of laboratories for speculative culture, with studios currently in Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Falmouth in the UK (with an occasional temporary studio a bit closer to you - in Glenelg). Nik and I are FoAM’s co-founders and have been working at FoAM for nearly 15 years. | ||
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| To illustrate this point I end with a quote from Italo Calvino… For FoAM, working with futures is “a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the edge of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic…” | To illustrate this point I end with a quote from Italo Calvino… For FoAM, working with futures is “a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the edge of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic…” | ||
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| + | (based on a longer talk [[foam_at_data_ecologies_2014|at Data Ecologies 2014]] | ||
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