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Thematics

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These five thematic journeys provide signposts amid diverse contents on this website, from the conviviality of the dinner table to the turbulent uncertainties of our current times.

Mapping the silver route

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A canvas of possibilities from the 'silver route', expanding surface where gathered fragments challenge how digital worlds are built and bound.

Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX)

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The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) is an emergent research entity working with the potential of transformative experiments across culture, art and business.

Anarchive Soundscapes

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A series of soundscapes to accompany FoAM's Anarchive, mixed by Lowdjo. 

Certainty Ltd.

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Certainty Ltd. offers support for personal and organisational transitions, including strategic unplanning, critical uncertainty diagnostics, VUCA therapy, ambient foresight, and bespoke situational awareness.

FRICTIONS

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Centering the everyday work of administration

Grey Sky Thinking

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In IBEX, we exchange Blue Sky innovation for Grey Sky thinking: overcasting before forecasting.

Anarchive

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The Anarchive looks at FoAM’s multi-decade existence from different vantage points, to unearth or revisit things that can have generative potential for the here-and-now and the yet-to-come.

Organic Abstraction

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Unbound and deconstructed photobook and instant exhibition.

A Wabi-sabi Guide

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Introduction to FoAM's edited reader on weathering transience.

Wabi-sabi: Weathering Transience

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An edited reader which dwells with the transient, incomplete, and unnoticed.

Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails

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In Which a Profusion of Words is Distilled into Six Evanescent Fragrances

Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty

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An edited reader for acting, relating, and hesitating in uncertain times. Wading hip-deep in our thick present, contributors share stories, experiences, and techniques to seed new realities and grow your own worlds.

A Crystal Guide

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Introduction to 'Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty', an edited reader for acting, relating, and hesitating in these uncertain times.

The Infinite Table

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A deck of cards for growing worlds at the scale of the dinner table.

A Green Guide

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Marking this year's Earth Day with excerpts from 'Green: Multispecies Entanglings', a reader from FoAM's Anarchive.

Green: Multispecies Entanglings

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Concerning reciprocal relations with the living world; the plants, animals, landscapes, and other beings with whom we share this planet.

Administrative Capacity Celebration Lunch

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FRICTIONS Blog Post 0

Spell Kit

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For Navigating Uncertainty

Reinaerd: mapping early hominid dispersal

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As part of Memory Code (explores pre-writing forms of encoding information) this is an attempt to encode a very basic level of the historic spread of early hominids across the globe.