2012-10-04 11:27:11 by Monique Alvarez

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Learning how to use the SINUNI - sensor system, sharing with the local community, developing a system for use in the Time's Up garden to trace the state of various plant beds.

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2012-10-04 11:33:35 by Monique Alvarez

**Living Spaces between desire and experiment **

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The exhibition “In the Garden - Living spaces between desire and experiment” run by the Linz-based museum Nordico took a look at Linz specific urban garden sceneries as well as it examines contemporary, international relevant gardening-architectures and current practices like Community or Guerilla Gardening.

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2012-10-04 12:17:05 by Monique Alvarez

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Mathematician and machine artist Tim Boykett (Time's Up, AT) and textile designer and educator Carole Collet (Central Saint Martins College, UK) will lead a three-day workshop bringing together the arts of mathematics, textiles and computer programming. The Mathematickal Arts workshop investigates the tangible, abstract and conceptual threads binding materials and machines in a series of practical and theoretical experiments. Participants will use knots, weaving, sorting algorithms, notation and geometry to explore unfamiliar territories of mathematics or crafts using familiar practices of artistic and technological experimentation.

“To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space. A bit of string affords the dimensional latitude that is unique among the entities… another dimension is added which provides an opportunity that is limited only by the scope of our own imagery and the length of a ropemakers coil.” - Clifford W. Ashley, <em>The Book of Knots</em>

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A Resilients Salon with <a href=“http://dougald.co.uk/” rel=“nofollow”>Dougald Hine</a> and <a href=“http://benvickers.tumblr.com/” rel=“nofollow”>Ben Vickers</a>

<a title=“spr ingc afe von _foam bei Flickr” href=“http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/7029010379/”>Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== TryAdd and Resilients Salon ==== tryadd-and-resilients-salon On Leadership and Crisis: Complexity, Emergence and Relationship Mapping <a title="120209-174118 von _foam bei Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/6839848204/">{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6839848204_25cd8ec260.jpg" alt="120209-174118" width="500" height="333" /></a> 2012-10-04 12:46:58 by Monique Alvarez Julian Still leads us into the heart of complex systems, illustrating his voyages as systemic practitioner and his continuing mission to explore and help strange new worlds evolve. Julian will join us for an inspiring discussion on leading and coaching organisations through crisis. Emergence, relationship mapping and constellations will be investigated and explored both theoretically and tangibly. Julian Still is COO when the impossible is required, green entrepreneur and systemics visionary. An expert in leadership and crisis, he leads, coaches and teaches organisations and individuals facing the most difficult situations. Just before the Salon, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Vali Lalioti facilitates a <a class="internal" href="http://fo.am/tryadd-vali-lalioti/" rel="nofollow">TryAdd</a> with business coaches. The event is organised in collaboration with <a href="http://valilalioti.com/" rel="nofollow">Vali Lalioti</a> and FoAM as part of the <a href="http://fo.am/resilients/" rel="nofollow">Resilients</a> initiative. **[[>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157629229905166/]] See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Buratinas ==== buratinas <a title="Buratinas (second coming) von _foam bei Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/7295542198/">{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/7295542198_3b6cd602d4.jpg" alt="Buratinas (second coming)" width="500" height="310" /></a> 2012-10-04 13:04:22 by Monique Alvarez Buratinas is a project and a boat run by individuals from two Brussels organizations, **FoAM** and **Nadine**. Looking at the well-known mobility crisis in Brussels and the obvious availability of one major transportation route straight through the city, Buratinas proposes an alternative means of transportation by bringing a solar-powered taxi service to Festival Kanaal. The Buratinas Taxi Service offers people the possibility of transportation through Brussels in an ever-so-slow duck's-eye-view sightseeing experience. Taking its time to show rather than move people around, It serves as a romantic, idiosyncratic glue between the various locations of the Festival. During these trips an old seafarer's habit will be revived where true, imagined, old, recent and downright outrageous stories will be offered and accepted as currency for the service. **[[>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157629953350548/]] See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ---------------------------------------- ==== Resilients Salon at Burning Ice ==== resilients-salon-burning-ice FoAM hosts a conversation about human-plant interactions in gardens, labs and kitchens, with the <a href="http://www.genomicgastronomy.com/" rel="nofollow">Center for Genomic Gastronomy</a>, <a href="http://angelovermeulen.net" rel="nofollow">Angelo Vermeulen</a>, <a href="http://timesup.org" rel="nofollow">Time's Up</a>, <a href="http://nadine.be" rel="nofollow">nadine</a> on the closing evening of the <a href="http://www.kaaitheater.be/festival.jsp?festival=43&amp;lang=en" rel="nofollow">Burning Ice Festival</a> in Brussels. <a title="4 von _foam bei Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/7371570816/">{{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7082/7371570816_dbee206c51.jpg" alt="4" width="500" height="336" /></a> 2012-10-04 13:31:17 by Monique Alvarez "I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century. This means reaching back in time to models that were successful fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years ago. When this is done it becomes possible to see plants as food, shelter, clothing, and sources of education and religion." -Terrence McKenna At the epicentre of culture, gardening and technology we might be able to glimpse how plants can become organisational principles for human society in the turbulent times of the 21st century. Although we have to scavenge the fringes of contemporary society, we can observe many healing effects that humans can have on their surroundings through a symbiotic collaboration with plants. However, on a holistic level, we still don't know how to overhaul wasteful human behaviours en masse. How do we encourage a more resilient culture, so that humans and non-humans can continue living, preferably together? How do we stimulate a fertile entanglement of culture, gardening and technology that can give the rise to diverse communities of practice? Communities capable of forging symbiotic relationships between post-industrial human societies and the rest of the earth. Composting bitterness to grow beauty. To explore possible answers to such questions, FoAM hosts a Resilients Salon on Vegetal Culture, in conversation with <a href="http://www.genomicgastronomy.com/" rel="nofollow">Center for Genomic Gastronomy</a>, <a href="http://angelovermeulen.net" rel="nofollow">Angelo Vermeulen</a>, <a href="http://timesup.org" rel="nofollow">Time's Up</a>, <a href="http://nadine.be" rel="nofollow">nadine</a> and other participants of Burning Ice. The atmosphere is casual to inspire participation of everyone involved, accompanied with thematic food and drinks. Inspired by the title of the festival - We The Gardeners - FoAM invites all guests to bring one or more tomatoes from their garden, windowsill, or a neighbourhood green-grocer, as an entrance-fee. During the salon the tomatoes will be cooked into a soup and shared with everyone, as a closing feast of Burning Ice 2012. [[>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157630072052991/]] See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== NonGreenGardening Harvest ==== nongreengardening-harvest <a title="NGG Progress Inside Object02_1206_10_012 von Times Up Linz bei Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409501032/">{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8163/7409501032_15a6ba166d.jpg" alt="NGG Progress Inside Object02_1206_10_012" width="500" height="335" /></a> 2012-10-18 14:38:59 by Monique Alvarez **NonGreenGardening results and anecdotes** In 2011 we made an open call for finding interesting concepts for our Augmented Urban Garden. It was Natalia Borissova's Non-Green-Gardening project which was the most appealing one. Within the last months she was regularly onsite - developing and improving her concept of a Non-Green Garden at the Time's Up Labs. Together with Natalia and Dismas Leonard we are still maintaining a hybrid - green / nongreen-garden. Pros- and Cons of such a project in urban areas will be discussed during this event between 2 and 5 PM <a title="Non Green Gardening - Progress von Times Up Linz bei Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035447890/">{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8317/8035447890_1fd401cd7b.jpg" alt="Non Green Gardening - Progress" width="500" height="333" /></a> There will be a presentation of the Augmented Urban garden and its background of the Resilients project, some anecdotes regarding our battles with slugs and other less welcome guests in our garden. We will be serving some delicious dishes from the last harvest of our garden fruit and then send the beds off to their winter dormancy. http://timesup.org/NonGreenGardening http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157629601830295/ [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== FoAM interview in MCD #65 ==== foam-interview-mcd-65 2012-11-22 14:12:10 by Monique Alvarez An interview with Maja and Nik is featured in the recent issue of MCD - "L'INTERNET VOIT VERT / THE CULTURE OF GREEN TECH" - in which they discuss groworld, resilience and facing uncertainty. <a href="http://www.digitalmcd.com/2011/12/05/mcd65-linternet-voit-vert-the-culture-of-green-tech" target="_blank">http://www.digitalmcd.com/2011/12/05/mcd65-linternet-voit-vert-the-culture-of-green-tech</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Notes from the Sensing Resilience workshop ==== notes-sensing-resilience-workshop 2012-11-22 14:55:20 by Monique Alvarez Notes from the workshop can be found here: <a href="http://libarynth.org/resilients/sinuni_workshop#workshop_noteslive" target="_blank">http://libarynth.org/resilients/sinuni_workshop#workshop_noteslive</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Augumented urban gardening - a snap shot ==== augumented-urban-gardening-snap-shot-dismas-sekibaha <span lang="SW">One thing I knew for sure was the challenges of writing about the experiences of **<a href="http://www.libarynth.org/resilients/non-green-gardening" target="_blank">breeding mushrooms</a>** alongside green edible plants in the augmented urban gardening structure. I knew it from the beginning it wont be easy to write about it but it was great that I didn't have to worry about **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409498284/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">breeding them</a>**, <span> neither taking the chance of **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035445041/in/set-72157629601830295" target="_blank">caring for them</a>**. It was the likes of **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/5050644881/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">tomatoes</a>**, salads, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111956491/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">potatoes</a>**, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035443420/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">paprikas</a>**, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, oregano, rosemary, thyme, mints and so many other **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111982784/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">aperitive plants</a>** that kept me working on those hanging beds since i knew at the end of the day they are all going to be eaten, and of course I will be part of the **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111969740/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">feasting activities</a>**. 2012-11-22 15:31:31 by Monique Alvarez <div><span lang="SW">One thing I knew for sure was the challenges of writing about the experiences of **<a href="http://www.libarynth.org/resilients/non-green-gardening" target="_blank">breeding mushrooms</a>** alongside green edible plants in the augmented urban gardening structure. I knew it from the beginning it wont be easy to write about it but it was great that I didn't have to worry about **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409498284/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">breeding them</a>**, <span> neither taking the chance of **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035445041/in/set-72157629601830295" target="_blank">caring for them</a>**. It was the likes of **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/5050644881/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">tomatoes</a>**, salads, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111956491/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">potatoes</a>**, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035443420/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">paprikas</a>**, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, oregano, rosemary, thyme, mints and so many other **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111982784/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">aperitive plants</a>** that kept me working on those hanging beds since i knew at the end of the day they are all going to be eaten, and of course I will be part of the **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111969740/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">feasting activities</a>**. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">Apparently<span> I also did not forget this African proverb (don't forget that Africa is a country) ''hauling a basket of delicious food is not laborious, neither boring'' </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">It was like; come on, if it is colorless to write about it, why not take photos before planting, harvesting and eating all **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/4817397821/in/set-72157623806473763" target="_blank">green family</a>** and of course **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409494490/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">breeding</a>**, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409492362/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">harvesting</a>** and **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409501032/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">eating</a>** the other non-green family (**<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7409494258/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">elms oyster</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035445152/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">pink oyster</a>** and **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035446012/in/set-72157629540753105/" target="_blank">stropharias</a>****)?** <span lang="SW">. Or what about making photos after eating all the greens and the mushrooms and see how delighted people were to have the resilience augmented non-green and green gardening fulfill their desire to **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111973927/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank">good food</a>**. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">The idea of documenting the process through **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157629601830295/with/8111966806/" target="_blank">photos</a>** worked better than the academic style of writing papers that nobody is interested in on reading especially right here, right now where preparation of uncertain future through **<a href="http://www.timesup.org/resilients" target="_blank">resilience philosophy</a>** needs people to act and **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/7003152368/in/set-72157629601830295" target="_blank">experimenting</a>** the actual living models, and not only reading about it. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">So many things came along to challenge the whole process but the desire to good product and basically delicious food kept me working hard until the enjoyment part of the whole work were achieved. Yes, there were these **<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slug_in_VanDusen_Botanical_Garden.jpg" target="_blank">monsters aka <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">slugs </a>** who were very smart to find different ways to snick around and be the first to taste the mushrooms. <span> </div> <div> </div> <h2 style="background: white; margin: 0.83em 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" lang="SW"><span style="font-size: small;">Yap, they did quite a destruction, **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035447890/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">(I liked to say 'they <span lang="EN-US">assassinated big number of mushrooms') </a>**<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . Everytime the mushrooms needed to get some fresh air outside, the only enemy to think about was slugs. The last option was to kill them (to some point it was very brutal)<span> but that was the only way left since the used coffee grounds did not helped much as well as the **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035447785/in/set-72157629540753105" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">aluminium bars </a>**<span style="font-size: small;">. </h2> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">Although the cat was doing a good job but turning the onions bed to be its pooing spot was to some point, a pain, but what could you do about it. He was the best in catching all the mice around but ironically it was always running away from big rats who were more destructive. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">This dude <span> turned our onions bed to be his pooing place-hahahaa. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">It didn't matter anyway. At the end of the day, the autumn came so quick and **<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8111956491/in/set-72157629601830295/" target="_blank">everything has to stop</a>** and gives way to the skiing season. </div> <div> </div> <div><span lang="SW">It was a great experience and hopefully next season the Time's Uppers will challenge the cat, slugs and all odds to have best food supply around the corner. </div> <div> </div> <span lang="SW">**<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/8035444679/in/set-72157623806473763" target="_blank">cheers</a>** [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Unmanned Resillience team in Kilpisjärvi ==== unmanned-resillience-team-arctic <a title="SINUNISuomi 001 by projekt atol, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/projekt_atol/8212392390/">{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8488/8212392390_d7e6a34e55_z.jpg" alt="SINUNISuomi 001" width="640" height="427" /></a> 2012-11-23 23:04:04 by Uros Veber <a title="SINUNISuomi 001 by projekt atol, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/projekt_atol/8212392390/">{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8488/8212392390_d7e6a34e55_z.jpg" alt="SINUNISuomi 001" width="640" height="427" /></a> A part of the Unmanned Resilence Team (Marko, Matthew, Kenny and Hafiz) are continuing to develop SINUNI sensor network and flying the Bramor UAS on orto-photo missions. This time they are way up north in the Arctic Circle, occupying the Kilpisj&auml;rvi Biological Station, situated in the mountain birch forest zone near the 70th parallel of northern latitude (69&deg;03&prime;N; 20&deg;50&prime;E) in the northwesterenmost part of Finland until the end of November. Apparently <em>aurora borealis</em> has already been detected. <a title="aurora_20112012_mountain by projekt atol, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/projekt_atol/8211304359/">{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8480/8211304359_1c209dd44a_z.jpg" alt="aurora_20112012_mountain" width="640" height="427" /></a> For more notes and blogs entries posted by our API / Resilients team in residency in Kilpisjaervi, FI, check out this <a href="http://www.kilpiscope.net/residency/?author=19">link</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== picking season ==== picking-season {{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8206/8231126579_c5760f0467_o.jpg

<pre>: I was almost sure that the NGG picking season is over and i was about to take a winter break from mushrooms for a while</pre> <pre> </pre>

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<pre> </pre> Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Resilients: The Flotilla ==== 2012-12-05 13:46:36 by Monique Alvarez The prehearsal of the Resilients, starting at 12:12:12 on the 12-12-12, the Anti-Apocalypse Day. It is an exercise for the members of the Resilients Guild, to pre-enact a possible future scenario named "The Flotilla" "In this possible future, The Resilients guild with members and cells around the world decides to lift its anchor. There is no security of funding or the status of artists as independent operators. The arts have become radically bureaucratised, reaching Kafka-esque proportions. The cost of living is prohibitively expensive. Individual artistic careers are impossible to attain, except for the select few artists who serve the tastes of the rich and famous. Universities have become machines for producing papers, but education and research happen elsewhere - in alternative, ad-hoc spaces, in collectives of people eager to learn. Technologists are either brainwashed into serving the capitalist machinery, or drop out and become sought after hackers, feeding technological resistance movements. Environmentalists are disillusioned by the global apathy and are either growing more radical, or attempt to infiltrate the political and economic systems, just to be slowly swallowed and transformed by them. Small groups of people retreat into a bucolic mirage of intentional communities and village life, where permaculture and new age intermingle into a somewhat escapist mixture. The members of the Resilients became tired of fighting the windmills and see that the only way forward is to fully commit themselves to the collective vision they've been cultivating over the years and begin growing their own world: The flotilla, a distributed, semi-nomadic troupe sharing a collective vision of the world and their place in it." A 24 hour period in the Flotilla will be experienced by those participating, enacting the working life in this possible future. A debriefing session attempts to unravel the responses to this lifestyle, to look at the ways that the experiences gathered there can echo into the present to inform our ongoing activities. [[:resilients/the flotilla]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Dougald Hine, Journeyman: transiency and cultural resilience ==== dougald-hine-journeyman-interview-transiency-and-cultural-resilience <span style="font-family: brevia-1, brevia-2, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; line-height: 17.981481552124023px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);">Dougald started a transiency at foam in July 2012, exploring the role of the Journeyman and what this could mean to the Resilients Guild. His travels took him to interesting places and conversations across Europe, reflecting on cultural resilience, travelling and the absurdity of foresight. This interview was taken while reflecting in Rab, Croatia in July 2012 in the middle of his transiency. 2013-01-04 14:48:50 by shelbatra jashari <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; font-family: brevia-1, brevia-2, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">"I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. For the first two weeks, I travelled fast: visiting people and projects that had been on my mind, recording the traces of the journey and the chance encounters to which it led. After that, I slowed down, spending time with groups of friends and collaborators, first in Croatia and later in Denmark. All of these journeys were made by rail and by ferry. Over the later part of the summer, I began to write up some of the longer reflections from the journey, picking up further threads of conversation along the way. As of October, I am gradually completing the map of my travels with notes from the journey." <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; font-family: brevia-1, brevia-2, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">- Dougald Hine <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; font-family: brevia-1, brevia-2, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; color: #636466; line-height: 21px;">More information: <a style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: #fcd700;" href="http://rhapsodi.se/resilients/?page_id=41" target="_blank">http://rhapsodi.se/resilients/?page_id=41</a> <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; font-family: brevia-1, brevia-2, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #636466; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; line-height: 21px;">Interview with Dougald about the different aspects of his work and more particularly his view on cultural resilience and the role of "Journeyman" in our times. <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; line-height: 21px;"><iframe style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline;" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F70675391" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="166"></iframe> <p style="margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #636466; line-height: 21px;">The transcript of the interview with Dougold can be found here: h<a style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: #fcd700;" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/dougald_hine_interview" target="_blank">ttp://lib.fo.am/resilients/dougald_hine_interview </a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Boucalais: a mobile studio ==== 2013-01-04 17:56:22 by shelbatra jashari **Boucalais is a mobile studio: **Boucalais is a walking trail from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk via Calais which Various Artists has travelled several times a year for seven years. The trail is a studio where a number of VA revise their work or where new work is created. <span style="color: #222222; line-height: 20.266666412353516px;">The creations are poetic expressions on the road, as it were, and which - given the mobile context - are necessarily on a small scale or &lsquo;light'. <span style="color: #222222; line-height: 20.266666412353516px;">The Boucalais project pays homage to the artist-collector who, in the course of his journey, assembles a collection of objects and observations, which will - sometimes literally - be dragged back to his studio as so many installations and &lsquo;objets trouv&eacute;s'. At the same time, the work is often intangible and only lives on in documentary form. Since, in the case of VA, the journey is largely equivalent to the studio, this collection of objects, routines and documentation is used as raw material/ oxygen/ basic component for (artistic) creation &lsquo;en route'. **Boucalais is a format or work method: **<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 20.266666412353516px;">Boucalais started in 2005 as a fixed walking trail, and grew over the years to a format, a state of mind inviting the VA to develop, revise and/or renew their work methods and preconceptions. The walking format challenges the artist's production mechanisms, and makes room for another interpretation of what constitutes artistic work. At times, the work is no more than a distinctive mark or a trace on the trail. The VA are thus continuously led to adapt their idea of creation and constantly develop different work methods. **Boucalais is a performance on the road: **<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 20.266666412353516px;">Boucalais can also be seen as a real-time performance, a performed creative process out of which work emerges that is shown either en route or at predefined locations along the trail: interventions on the roadside and routines in hotel rooms are subtle installations and markings executed by VA, but without an audience consciously looking on. These are but small interventions in the landscape, fragments of songs by a singer-songwriter, anonymous witnesses who return every day for this temporary artist-walker. For more information: * http://boucalais.tumblr.com/ * http://n0dine.squarespace.com/boucalais * http://nadine.be/project/resilients/being-boucalais [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Questioning Resilience ==== 2013-02-17 02:50:47 by Nik Gaffney In <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:words_which_matter_to_people" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/words_which_matter_to_people">Words which Matter to People</a>, Dougald Hine questions the concept of "resilience" itself - not through academic debate, but by talking to people on the streets of Helsinki about the Finnish word <em>sisu.</em> Comparing their visceral and culturally grounded use of this concept with the distant, etiolated notion of "resilience" as it is deployed in political, environmental and scientific discourse, he finds that the meaning we make or find in the world - embodied in such notions as <em>sisu</em> - is deeply bound up with our capacity to endure in turbulent times. Read more about Dougald's travels as journeyman and artist in transience in his wide-ranging <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:dougald_hine_interview" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/dougald_hine_interview">conversation with Shelbatra Jashari</a> for the Resilients project. Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Boating, Control of the Commons and Aristology ==== 2013-02-17 02:54:59 by Nik Gaffney Tim Boykett, Pippa Buchannan and a motley crew of enthusiastic DIY sailors embarked on an exploration of water rights and "luminous green" sailing in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:coc_overview" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/coc_overview">Control of the Commons</a>. In <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:resilient_boating" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilient_boating">Resilient Boating</a>, Tim writes of sustainability, graceful decay, and the balance of effort versus utility in the realm of boat building and sailing, while Pippa recounts how a confessed food lover embraces the challenge of improvised gourmet cooking for several people on a tiny boat in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:the_resilient_aristologist" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/the_resilient_aristologist">The Resilient Aristologist</a>. Each of their boating adventures is narrated in the <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:murray_river_journey" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/murray_river_journey">Murray River Journey</a>, the <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:danube_journey" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/danube_journey">Danube Journey</a>, and the <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:belgian_canals" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/belgian_canals">Belgian Canals</a> - as are the details of how they went about constructing the two vessels they sailed, the <em><a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:subak_construction_notes" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/subak_construction_notes">Subak1</a></em> and <em><a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:subak2_construction_notes" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/subak2_construction_notes">Subak2</a>.</em> Also check out some notes towards a <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:snippets" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/snippets">manifesto of a DIY pirate</a>. Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Mushrooms and urban gardening ==== 2013-02-17 02:55:56 by Nik Gaffney Natalia Borissova explored augmented urban gardening through a series of living lab experiments with "non-green" mushrooms, finding in fungi an infinite source of inspiration for recycling and adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Her practical explorations in mushroom growing are documented in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:non_green_revolution" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/non_green_revolution">The Non Green (R)evolution</a>, while <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:go_ask_a_mushroom" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/go_ask_a_mushroom">Go Ask a Mushroom: musings on Afterculture</a> advocates fungi and their mycelial roots as a source of continued inspiration for a resilient "life after culture." At the same time, Dismas Leonard Sekibaha narrates his experiences at Time's Up as "gardener in residence" - of both the green and non-green variety - in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:my_summer_in_an_urban_garden" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/my_summer_in_an_urban_garden">My Summer in an Urban Garden</a>. Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Leaks, Alchemy and the silient side of things ==== 2013-02-17 02:56:48 by Nik Gaffney <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:edible_alchemy" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/edible_alchemy">Edible Alchemy</a> by Carole Collet and Bartaku discusses resilience and adaptation in relation to the properties of two intriguing plants - flax and Aronia - and how these were used in Temporary photoElectric Digestopians (TpED), a series of co-creation worklabs, and the Edible Alchemy Aperolab. <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:resilience_thinking_diy" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilience_thinking_diy">Resilience Thinking DIY</a> was an exercise held at Central Saint Martin's College and summarised here to encourage readers to practice resilient thinking in design. <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:a_leaky_loop" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/a_leaky_loop">A Leaky Loop</a> by Bartaku narrates the kind of intimate and bizarre experience you can expect as a TpED creator and tester, while <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:silients" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/silients">Silients</a> is a fragmentary meditation on a peculiar variation of "resilients." Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== The Pollinators ==== 2013-02-17 02:57:35 by Nik Gaffney In <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:the_pollinators_review" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/the_pollinators_review">The Pollinators</a>, nadine review the meaning and implications of reviving modes of cultural travel where the journey is the destination, as an antidote both for tourism and the utilitarian obsession with getting from A to B in the shortest time and space. [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== If you can't pay for a loaf... ==== 2013-02-17 02:58:49 by Nik Gaffney In connection with the Unmanned Resilience case study, Uro&scaron; Veber interviewed Helena Krapež, the owner of an excursion farm on the Gora plateau in western Slovenia. <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:bake_your_own" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/bake_your_own">If you can't pay for a loaf, go bake your own</a> is a fascinating ethnographic glimpse into the state of farming in this region, and by extension, the changes and upheavals taking place in wider society - not to mention the resourcefulness of one woman in challenging circumstances. Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== From Pan to Panarchy ==== 2013-02-17 02:59:53 by Nik Gaffney Exploring methods of prototyping possible futures, Anna Maria Orru and David Relan discuss their scenario building toolkit in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:scenario_symphony" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/scenario_symphony">Composing a Scenario Symphony</a>. This approach draws on a combination of Lance Gunderson and C. S. Holling's panarchy systems model outlined in <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:from_pan_to_panarchy" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/from_pan_to_panarchy">From Pan To Panarchy</a>, and the idea of <a class="wikilink1" title="resilients:temporal_model" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/temporal_model">The Temporal Model in Future Scenario Building</a>. Read more at <a href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilients_in_review">Resilients in Review</a> [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Resilients online ==== 2013-03-29 00:55:42 by Alkan Chipperfield [[>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/6918397210/]] {{http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5152/6918397210_ebfeece57d_o.jpg

We are pleased to announce the compilation of the Resilients online publication, representing the collected reflections and working notes gleaned from two years' prolific intentional voyages, experimental situations and real-life labs exploring creative resilient practices. Beautifully illustrated with specially-commissioned imagery from Strangehalos, we present this rich body of material as both a finished chronicle of our endeavours and as a plentiful archive of working ideas and notes that can be built on and modified by anyone interested in pursuing it further.

In this way http://resilients.net can be approached from several angles: skim through the topics that interest you, peruse it as a reader, or drill deeper into the unruly compost of notes, quotes, and further reading to get at the raw <em>mat&eacute;riel</em> for future fabulations. We invite you in whatever way that suits to explore, be inspired by and build on the work presented here - which we believe will surely only become more relevant as this brave new century unfolds.

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unmanned-resilients-vids

Here is a collection of videos, documenting a series of Unmanned Resilience workshops, the SINUNI residency and the mountan hike & wild food discovering that all took place on Gora Plateau in August 2012. And we are now also adding the local TV show about our UR activities.

2012-10-01 11:36:35 by Uros Veber

Here is a collection of videos, the documenting a series of Unmanned Resilience activities on Gora Plateau in August 2012.

UNMANNED RESILIENCE UAS BRAMOR TESTS on Vimeo. RESILIENTS WORKSHOP on Vimeo. RESILIENTS MOUNTAIN CLIMB / HIKE SHORT VID on Vimeo.

We are happy now to finally be able to upload the full show on Unmanned Resilience activities. The show is being played on local TV station as part od Sodobna Umetnost (Contemporary Art) TV series on rotating basis every month. Unfortunately it is all in Slovene and we were also asked to keep it password protected

But here is the pass: resilients

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Sodobna Umetnost - Unmanned Resilients

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