activities

Anarchive

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.

Certainty Ltd.

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

Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails

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

The Infinite Table

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

Arka Kinari

Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a multimedia performance staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship. Using live music and cinematic visuals Arka Kinari imagines life after the carbon economy, resilience to climate change, and re-engagement with our last great commons—the sea.

Coaching by Numbers

A deck of (wild) cards for use in business coaching.

Feral Business Coaching & Consultancy

feral business coaching is merging materials and understandings from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY and design.

Spell Kit

For Navigating Uncertainty

The Viriditas Chapel

The Viriditas Chapel of Perpetual Adoration is a VR experience inspired by the visions and music of Hildegard von Bingen.

Future of the Delta

A fieldwork team investigates future perspectives of the Dutch delta region from a multi-species perspective. Can the effort of looking from their vantage-points open up space for new insights, deepen our empathy for the aquatic world and the creatures of wet, dry and intertidal worlds?

Resonances

Resonances is a series of sonic propositions. Listening to the sounds of the Earth unfolding at different timescales. Attuning to matter in its myriad forms and flows. Paying attention to a multitude of voices, omnipresent but often too quiet to notice amidst the noise of human activity.

Spectres in change

Spectres in change is an artistic investigation reflecting on acute planetary challenges of the present against complex historical trajectories, on the island of Seili in the Archipelago Sea.

Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX)

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

Radmin

The Feral MBA

A training course in business for artists and others.

Machine Wilderness - ARTIS

An artist-in-residency programme at ARTIS Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, exploring how human technologies can act as bridges to animal and plant worlds. Could our technologies be technologies of environmental empathy, kinship and solidarity?

Superject

Superject is a card game grounded in the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It's a tool for questioning, prototyping, discussing, and feeling the world anew. 

The Evidence Support Initiative

Placements for science researchers on local councils, to help provide evidence for decision making.

Dust & Shadow

Dust and shadow explores existing and potential relationships between people and the desert in the North American Southwest.

(Algo|Afro)futures

(Afro|Algo)futures is a mentoring programme for early career Black artists who want to explore the creative potential of live coding.

Algomech

AlgoMech is about getting into the guts of how music is made, showing code running in real time, taking machines and systems apart to show their workings, and opening up technologies to alternative uses.

Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective

The Feral Livelihood Coaching Collective is a small translocal team of artists, designers and ecologists who decided to take up the challenge and intrigue of coaching in our own communities.

Hosting and Process Facilitation

We facilitate participatory processes and guide groups of people to work together on complex issues.

Sphaerae

Sphaerae is a semitransparent portable pavilion for synaesthetic compositions, new imaginaries and transdisciplinary experimentation.

groWorld

The groWorld initiative brings together culture, gardening and technology to explores interactions between plants and humans from multiple perspectives.

Thematics

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.

FRICTIONS

Centering the everyday work of administration