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==== Improving Realities ==== | ==== Improving Realities ==== | ||
- | A talk by Maja Kuzmanovic at Improving Reality 2013 | + | A talk by Maja Kuzmanovic at [[Improving Reality 2013]] |
- | I bring greetings from FoAM, a network of small laboratories for – what we call – speculative culture. We borrowed this term from Bruce Sterling, and describe it as a phenomenon where a diverse group of people from a range of disciplines and cultures, makers and thinkers, educators and gardeners live and work together, to prototype and experiment with possible futures. FoAM is like an archipelago of experiments in speculative culture: where groups of people tinker with different realities, or as we like to say “grow their own worlds”. Some of our islands are rock hard and become formal studios (e.g. In Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Kernow), others are more like sandy walking islets, appearing and disappearing with the flow of people, money and resources. The worlds or realities we grow are diverse, but share three common characteristics: | + | I bring greetings from FoAM, a network of small laboratories for – what we call – speculative culture. We borrowed this term from Bruce Sterling, and describe it as a phenomenon where a diverse group of people from a range of disciplines and cultures, makers and thinkers, educators and gardeners live and work together, to prototype and experiment with possible futures. FoAM is like an archipelago of experiments in speculative culture: where groups of people tinker with different realities, or as we like to say “grow their own worlds”. Some of our islands are rock hard and become formal studios (e.g. In Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Kernow), others are more like sandy walking islets, appearing and disappearing with the flow of people, money and resources. |
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+ | The worlds or realities we grow are diverse, but share three common characteristics: | ||
* we cultivate things and phenomena that grow, evolve, decay and die (or transform into something else) | * we cultivate things and phenomena that grow, evolve, decay and die (or transform into something else) | ||
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From generative responsive spaces we moved on to connecting living gardens with online games and most recently developed an entangled alternate reality narrative called Borrowed Scenery. | From generative responsive spaces we moved on to connecting living gardens with online games and most recently developed an entangled alternate reality narrative called Borrowed Scenery. | ||
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With Borrowed Scenery we attempted to approach something that Vinay Gupta calls ' | With Borrowed Scenery we attempted to approach something that Vinay Gupta calls ' | ||
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We are currently continuing to explore these themes and methods in Future Fabulators, a project where we hope to find new and exciting ways to thrive in uncertain conditions and walk backwards into the future, with eyes wide open. | We are currently continuing to explore these themes and methods in Future Fabulators, a project where we hope to find new and exciting ways to thrive in uncertain conditions and walk backwards into the future, with eyes wide open. | ||
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=== More about responsive environments, | === More about responsive environments, | ||
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