Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)
The central focus of the PARN project is dealing with the possibilities and problems of creating, presenting and representing narratives in physical space. Storytelling is a fundamental human capacity and is widespread in a variety of cultural forms as well as being one of the ways in which, according to many researchers of learning and awareness, we make sense of the world as we experience and reflect it. As the acclaimed poet …
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Borrowed Scenery
Borrowed Scenery is a story about an alternate reality (past, future or parallel) where plants are a central aspect of human society. Weaving through the physical spaces of everyday life, the story can be tangibly experienced wherever plants and humans interact. Borrowed … more info
Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures
The Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures (EITC) investigates how to invigorate cultural economies by combining arts, crafts and technologies from the pre- and post-industrial eras. The initiative focuses on community workshops of the township of Zegache Sta Ana in Oaxaca, Mexico – … more info
Resilients
Resilients are people of all ages preparing for uncertain futures by experimenting with resilient forms of living and working as a form of artistic practice. The Resilients project collects, creates, shares and supports these emergent practices, while grounding them in historic cultural … more info
Open Sauces
Open Sauces is a collection of projects, writings and events related to sharing of food, food culture and food systems. Although their format might change, these activities all combine tasting, socialising and learning. Open Sauces brings together people interested in both environmental … more info
groWorld
The groWorld initiative brings together three “forces” capable of transforming the world on human and ecological scales: culture, gardening and technology. These three strands of inquiry inform and support each other, aiming to forge new symbiotic relationships between postindustrial human societies and … more info
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3 months, 2 weeks ago
RT @pruned: Robot-readable gardens: http://t.co/CRoOfJML
1 month, 3 weeks ago
larutadeltrompe's photo http://t.co/e9pAPkVKsv
2 months ago
some glimpses from the #hotelresilients http://t.co/AuViVkA6uw
2 months, 4 weeks ago
RT @wietske: Anti-anxiety drug residues in waterways (oxazepam) turn fish into unsociable gluttons http://t.co/NeFzfE0pgM
1 month ago
RT @sensorssystems: NASA's HyspIRI: Seeing the Forest and the Trees and More http://t.co/KKtkElTCvJ
Cat Jones residency: a seasonal botanic retreat
Between February and April 2013 Cat Jones was in residence at FoAM researching for her project, Transcontinental Garden Exchange — an experiment in communication between Homo sapiens and flora to highlight how our green friends have seeded change in our social history and behaviour. Whilst at FoAM Cat researched the scientific and social history of human-plant relationships, plant signalling and the possibilities for ther manifestation between humans and flora.
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2 months ago
Just posted a photo http://t.co/Z29hGlOsMN
2 months, 4 weeks ago
RT @wietske: Tierstimmenarchiv. World's largest animal sound archive, Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin... http://t.co/1ldNIUlSJ0
1 month, 1 week ago
RT @wti_org_india: Wildlife authorities fit satellite collars on endangered rare Kashmiri red deer http://t.co/WVFjvdDrG3
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Unmenschliche Musik, 'Kreative Kreaturen' micro-symposium. On bio-acoustic aesthetics and inter-species music-making http://t.co/mVS1VdNi2h
3 months, 1 week ago
David Rothenberg playing his duet with cicadas at OSCILLATOR http://t.co/UO54kZlO
1 month, 1 week ago
@____________mc rep.li cating?
3 months, 2 weeks ago
moth drives robot http://t.co/mKPGaEzA
1 month, 4 weeks ago
RT @socialfiction: fishy surveillance: http://t.co/doNHLOiUJt Marine Biologist Works to Create a ‘Wired Ocean’
3 months, 1 week ago
"Yesterday was the first test of the full DORIS marine mapping system" http://t.co/TieABTCB (with @nebogeo and @AmberFirefly) #lobsters
1 month, 1 week ago
Personhood Beyond the Human -Conference to be held at Yale on Nonhuman Rights - http://t.co/78VCeAJWYl // @ProfSteveFuller @skeuomorphology
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The first edition of the Journal of Human-Animal Interaction is expected to come out in March,... http://t.co/eZp5N2dw
FoAM Newsletter Spring 2013
Dear collaborators, colleagues and friends, along with the full bloom of spring we are pleased to bring you the latest seasonal newsletter from FoAM. This time round we have a lot of wrapping up to report - and much that is soon to be unwrapped. Read on for the full story.
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1 month ago
Open Source Ecology's first Annual Report http://t.co/tKP2kAAuJD
1 month ago
Robot moth triggered by GreatTit @sensorecology http://t.co/VW09zcZxgQ
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Stewart Brand is talking about reviving extinct species at #TED2013 right now & hosting @TEDxDextinction 3/15: http://t.co/wZdLIO7Zyz
3 months, 1 week ago
more-than-human actors #OpenCall http://t.co/Yp2Uwtie
1 month, 1 week ago
RT @wti_org_india: Wildlife authorities in remote northeastern India use drones to protect rhinos from poachers http://t.co/cp7qUV5stF
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Non-human intelligence: scientists findings upend view of humankind's unique place in the universe: http://t.co/ILCAyr6dcW v @annegalloway
4 months, 2 weeks ago
RT @justinpickard: 21st-century entertainment. 'Watch a Drone Sneak Up on a Confused Moose': http://t.co/h43POoBc
2 months, 1 week ago
ecology and conservation through animal-borne video systems from 2007: http://t.co/3QdyGmJjhS