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We are a cultural laboratory re-imagining possible futures at the interstices of art, science, nature and everyday life.

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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 roots.

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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1 month, 1 week ago

update of US plant hardinessmap: http://t.co/vjO5N9om.

Electrified (an exploration)

Ghent. Belgium.
Jun 10th to Jun 10th

This is a call to adventure for urban gardeners and foragers, biopunks and eco-hackers, ...

Future Prehearsal at Festival Kanal

Sep 16th to Sep 16th

A Future Prehearsal is a re-enactment of one or more possible futures. It is ...

1 month, 3 weeks ago

On BBC2 now: "the 24 satelites that you use each morning", and more... #InOrbit

JustGrow: Talent and Growth

Oct 24th to Oct 24th

Vali Lalioti will share tools in peer-coaching triads, to identify what drives us, what ...

1 month ago

it really exists: http://t.co/SrpJAJPT #mapping human/plant intolerance

Resilients Salon at Burning Ice

Brussels. Belgium.
Jun 9th to Jun 9th

FoAM hosts a conversation about human-plant interactions in gardens, labs and kitchens, with the ...

1 month, 1 week ago

New app signals that endangered whales are nearby http://t.co/NbyftuV3

1 month, 1 week ago

New #spaceapps challenge to apply climate data to agricultural planning. http://t.co/g6Xxzol8

1 month, 1 week ago

#NASA app visualizes recent global #climate data from Science satellites http://t.co/Y9q2WZpT

Future preparedness - the art of the long view

In future prehearsals, we aim to model possible futures as participatory performances - scenarios in which we can surprise ourselves and challenge our creative know-how and insight. At FoAM we have been dissecting and experimenting with possible scenarios emerging from the question, “How do we work together on interesting things?”

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1 month, 1 week ago

RT @iftf: Algorithms on the Prairie - http://t.co/DiIL40z4 #FoodFutures #EverythingIsProgrammable

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Australian PlantBank to safeguard diversity http://t.co/zpfidXOk

1 month, 1 week ago

eating grass, crunching code (foraging in .walk) 6-may: http://t.co/C08VYfMN (with @socialfiction and @theunk )

1 month, 1 week ago

RT @spatialsustain: Let the Drone Mapping Race Begin http://t.co/9mofOaTd

1 month, 1 week ago

Going ape for apps: young orangutan plays with iPad http://t.co/ekeJQnTX

Identity Bureau

Jul 26th to Jul 27th

FoAM and Z33 co-organise a two-day workshop on constructing legal persons for non-human persons, ...

1 month, 1 week ago

stunning realtime wind-map for US: http://t.co/TAZ1zhMe

Germination X: Player characters

After another code sprint on Germination X, I've added player characters (avatars) to the game.

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1 month ago

RT @connectxnature: Bombay Natural History Society launches "Citizen Sparrow" survey http://t.co/PwAIPVcr #birds #India #citizenscience

1 month, 1 week ago

RT @christensenfund: Who hasn't signed the Convention on Biological Diversity? North Korea, Libya and the U.S.A.- http://t.co/5n5Og8Jk

1 month, 1 week ago

cheap and easy waterquality sensorset http://t.co/ENQDuhQJ

1 month, 1 week ago

April-issue of @Eos_magazine has a nice article on #appsforanimals

1 month, 3 weeks ago

#AirQualityEgg is now on kickstarter: http://t.co/9vqDD768

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The recording of "The Guild and the Garret" conversation between @dougald and @benvickers_ is now online http://t.co/Sz8DenSB

1 month, 1 week ago

Disposable, USB-powered genome sequencer: http://t.co/b9kwugEP

1 month, 1 week ago

RT @tsuchigumo: The smallest algae bioreactors. To be worn as earrings http://t.co/KCbJKBtN

1 month, 1 week ago

Dutch nature observation network @waarneming now includes sound: http://t.co/sslZ5fpZ

1 month, 1 week ago

'new nature' resources archive http://t.co/7JDU437K

1 month, 1 week ago

Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup http://t.co/WnCxaMJ1

1 month, 1 week ago

iOS 5.1 compatible version of Wild Detroit app: http://t.co/slj0s9bQ