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.
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?
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.
Viruscraft Viruscraft is a research project combining tangible interfaces, craft and computer games to explore how viruses jump from one host species to another, working with Dr. Ben Longdon and Dr. Ben Ashby.
(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.
Rooted Hauntology Lab Rooted Hauntology Co-working Lab is a research trajectory looking at the (im)possibility of collaboration between humans and plants.
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?
The Evidence Support Initiative Placements for science researchers on local councils, to help provide evidence for decision making.
Institute for Experiments with Business The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) is an emergent research entity, situated within the FoAM network. Its interest is to collect, conduct and report on experiments in and with business, including new and wild takes on organisational staples such as budgets, contracts, organisational form, business coaching and the business plan.
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.
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.
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.
A Gathering Of Ghosts (Rooted Hauntology Lab - Séance #2) We live in a haunted world. By inhabiting this ghostliness we may recognize a different proximity to each other and what surrounds us.
The Great Bower Building Experiment Bower birds are known for building ornate and impressive structures. We're running an experiment to see how people would build these bowers, given limited materials.
AccessLab The AccessLab project aims to improve access to and the judgement of scientific information, through direct citizen-scientist pairings.
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.
Sonic Kayaks The Sonic Kayak is a musical and scientific instrument with which to investigate nature. Kayaks rigged with underwater environmental sensors generate live music from the marine world, providing the paddler with an extra dimension of senses with which to explore the underwater climate, while enabling citizens to gather important climate/environmental data.
Hosting and Process Facilitation We facilitate participatory processes and guide groups of people to work together on complex issues.
Play, Learn & Discover Here are all our free educational games and online citizen science projects together in one place! You can play these to learn about biology, evolution and other scientific topics, as well as helping researchers carry out scientific experiments and discover more about how the world works.
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.
Dust & Shadow Dust and shadow explores existing and potential relationships between people and the desert in the North American Southwest.
Penelope How can we make tools that help understand the ancient weaver's mind? How she calculated and solved the first recorded mathematical proofs, embedding them in pattern. How do certain forms of technology define our relationship with the world?
Feral Business Coaching feral business coaching is merging materials and understandings from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY and design.
The Farm Crap App A sustainable agriculture project designed to help farmers make the most of their manure.
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.
Citizen Science Our citizen science projects include events, workshops, games and experiments that seek new ways for people to question and drive research, ultimately informing and changing policy.
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.