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Boskoi

FoAM seeks to promote human-plant interaction in a variety of ways. Boskoi is one such tool for this purpose: a mobile phone app that helps you map and navigate the edible landscape in your city. It offers detailed information on wild food … more info

Germination X

Computer games allow us to adopt new lives and see the world from different perspectives. FoAM has been working for a number of years on using games to strengthen the connection between plants and people. Our latest approach takes popular games such … more info

Foodprints

Foodprints explores how the discipline of biomimicry can promote urban food resilience and opportunities for biodiversity to flourish in urban developments. There is an inherent relationship between the city and how food arrives on our plates. We want to investigate how to … more info

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 … 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

LIREC

LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted theory of artificial long-term companions (including memory, emotions, cognition, communication, learning, etc.), embody this theory in robust and innovative technology and experimentally verify both the theory and technology in real social environments.

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Resilients Salon with Julian Still

  • Brussels.
  • Feb 9th to Feb 9th

On Leadership and Crisis: Complexity, Emergence and Relationship Mapping Julian Still leads us into ...

2 weeks, 5 days ago

RT @physorg_biology: Scientists recreate evolution of complexity using 'molecular time travel' http://t.co/9RdRdI5s

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Apero at FoAM

  • Feb 3rd to Feb 3rd

Every Friday afternoon, FoAM in Brussels opens its doors for a weekly apéro – ...

1 week ago

Google Earth used to identify marine animal behavior http://t.co/oxRndlGy

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

RT @livingarchitect: Exhibition uses forensics to rebuild 27 faces of man's ancestors, stretching back 7m years | Mail Online...

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

RT @digitaleartheu: Eye on Earth #data gallery http://t.co/0D0kNhdu: http://t.co/ahjQvQtB

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1 week ago

help needed for #orangutanapp http://t.co/QI1D8cF5 #primatesoftware

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4 weeks ago

RT @furtherfield: Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn | ExtremeTech - http://t.co/MYmt8qEr

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

plants sensing gone mainstream: http://t.co/XfWXEvqs

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1 week, 3 days ago

app for mapping invasive species in Florida: http://t.co/svX0DY1o

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Mapping Transparency: Why it pays to be open » Sourcemap Blog http://t.co/4lSXnUfo

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Change your own world: 6 months in Jamaica

  • Feb 3rd to Feb 3rd

After having spent their first six months in Jamaica, Véronique Linard and Hans de ...

2 weeks, 5 days ago

NASA launches open source site http://t.co/9S2ByC6G

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3 hours, 15 minutes ago

Capturing an octopus-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef http://t.co/SJy9UPdi

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Mus-E meeting day at FoAM

  • Mar 27th to Mar 27th

After a project working in the Brussels schools de Wimpel and De Wereldbrug, classes ...

1 week ago

The human genome? Got an app for that http://t.co/HxdwWgDM

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Friday Apéro at FoAM in Brussels

If you are curious to meet some of us in person in a casual setting, join us for our Friday apéros at FoAM in Brussels.

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The Guild and the Garret: A Resilients Salon

  • Gent. Belgium.
  • Mar 25th to Mar 25th

A Resilients Salon with Dougald Hine and Ben VickersWriter and collapsonomist Dougald Hine hosts ...

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Managing Conflicts in Ocean Management with SeaSketch via #mattball http://t.co/7hb7Nj7t

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1 week ago

New technology enables scientists to map individual tree species across large rainforest areas by airplane http://t.co/t0m3Ds4f

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

RT @bldgblog: Incredible. On "fungal transceivers," or how to turn a network of mushrooms into a radio station: http://t.co/iKBHOFIM

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Tarot Tutorial

  • Feb 25th to Feb 25th

Art historian and tarot reader Paola Orlic talks about the stories and characters of ...

2 weeks, 5 days ago

interspecies gaming: http://t.co/bYIYSaHo

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1 week, 1 day ago

RT @pruned: Related: http://t.co/g4G910Vl | How might robotics and sensor tech be used in support of local small-scale agriculture?

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1 week ago

Field Guide to Urban Wildlife: http://t.co/Usp63jSn

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Alternate Reality Games in words and images, from FoAM's ARG tutorial with Six to Start: http://t.co/va5b4aiE

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1 week, 1 day ago

RT @pruned: The Super Robo-Farm is nigh! Prospero, a "swarm of autonomous micro-planters operating as one organism." | http://t.co/ZNI24efd

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3 days, 3 hours ago

To chase away the winter chill, FoAM bxl hosts an evening on a life-changing move to Jamaica: http://t.co/NeO0kMt1

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1 month ago

#UN Olivier De Schutter: "The amount of corn traded on the worldmarket is 20x the amount that really exists". #foodspeculation

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TryAdd with Vali Lalioti

  • Feb 9th to Feb 9th

FoAM is pleased to announce an evening of growth, inspiration and resilient networking in ...

1 week, 3 days ago

browse extinct species: http://t.co/ceddyjhn

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

RT @bldgblog: Incredible. On "fungal transceivers," or how to turn a network of mushrooms into a radio station: http://t.co/yjjxYWdQ

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