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FoAM and its collaborators see public events as ways to disseminate our work, meet new people, as well as provide exposure to people and ideas we respect. 


We present our work to international conferences, exhibitions and festivals. These activities are scalable interventions - from a lecture given by one of FoAM's collaborators, to a full-grown responsive environment, tended to by a whole team. We prefer to tailor our public events on an individual basis, allowing us to work in a site- and context specific manner.


We invite people into our FoAM-labs, to present what they think and do, in a format that suits them. We structure events in various event series, each of which has a different focus, format and audience. We also encourage surprising one-off events, which refresh both us and our audiences. Most events at FoAM are total experiences, usually involving thematic spatial design, food and drinks. The events are reminiscent of 19th century artistic Salons, intimate get-togethers, where all participants have a chance to meet all others, learn something new, immerse themselves in an inspiring atmosphere, enjoy a bite, a sip and a conversation. In a time when people in public spaces are considered either as consumers, or potential threats, FoAM's public events function as temporary autonomous zones.


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 Farming the Cities 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-09-11 00:00 GMT+2


2010-09-19 00:00 GMT+2


Location: 
Amsterdam
CITIES Foundation together with the Municipality of Amsterdam, is co-organizing an exhibition/workshop about Urban Agriculture. This event will take place during the Week of Sustainability, a 9 days program made by the city of Amsterdam to support and promote sustainable projects in the city.


CITIES, a platform for urban research based in Amsterdam, is currently researching and promoting alternative approaches for the development of temporary urban agriculture practice. The exhibition is part of the 'Farming the Cities' project.


FoAM is exhibiting the foraging application Boskoi for mobile phones.

 


    







   
 YGL & New Champions 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-09-12 00:00 GMT+8


2010-09-15 00:00 GMT+8


Location: 
Tianjin, China
Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney will participate at meeting of Young Global Leaders (YGL) & the the Annual Meeting of the New Champions on "Driving Growth through Sustainability". Maja is involved in the design of the opening session of the YGL meeting, leads a discussion on the topic of Open Innovation: Accelerating Sustainable Growth and moderates a session on the role of art in Asian society.


http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Young%20Global%20Leaders/index.htm


http://www.weforum.org/en/events/AnnualMeetingoftheNewChampions2010/inde...

 


    







   
 Kanal Labs: Triangulated 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-09-18 19:00 Europe/Brussels


2010-09-18 21:00 Europe/Brussels


Location: 
FoAM & Open Green, The Mill, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
Three Brussels art labs invite you in Koolmijnenkaai 30-34. OKNO opens their rooftop garden and Open Greens-project to all. You can taste urban honey and drinks made of plants from the garden. You can nibble on FoAM's detoxifying treats to help you fight urban afflictions, spiced up with plants from the Kanal area. Q-O2 invites the sound artist Pierre Berthet for a concert using waterdrops as an instrument.


After a day of walking between various urban gardens alongside the canal, FoAM will serve a range of detoxifying bites, especially crafted to eliminate toxins and pollutants from the human bodily ecology. The aperitif combines ingredients, methods and performance-eating techniques that can assist your body in fighting some of the most prominent urban afflictions, including allergies, stress related disorders, diabetes and cancer. In collaboration with OKNO and Irma Firma, the cooks will incorporate edible plants gathered and grown in the Brussels' Kanal area.


More: http://www.platformkanal.be/nl/acties/22-festival-kanal

 


    







   
 By design for design 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-09-23 09:00 Europe/Brussels


2010-09-23 21:00 Europe/Brussels


Location: 
Design Vlaanderen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Rasa Alksnyte is one of the participants at the Design for Design event at Toegepast: Fit to boost.

 


    







   
 ASEM on Sustainable Creative Cities 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-10-02 00:00 Europe/Brussels


2010-10-03 00:00 Europe/Brussels


Location: 
Brussels, Belgium
Christina Stadlbauer participates in Sustainable Creative Cities, a workshop on the role of the arts in globalised urban context. 


"Invited experts will address the roles of artists and creative workers in the evolution of globalised cities across Asia and Europe, assessing how an “artistic mode of knowing” can contribute to a transition from creative cities to sustainable creative cities.  The aim is to facilitate the emergence of local urban processes of social change in partnerships between artists, cultural practitioners and communities, as opposed to top-down urban planning."


http://culture360.org/asef-news/connecting-civil-societies-of-asia-and-e...

 


    







   
 Research Gathering at Design Vlaanderen 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-10-08 00:00 Europe/Brussels


Location: 
Design Vlaanderen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
FoAM holds a research gathering at the Design Vlaanderen Gallery, in collaboration with Tine Holvoet.

 


    







   
 NEM Sandbox 
 
    
  
  
 
2010-10-14 00:00 GMT+2


Location: 
Barcelona, Spain
Maja Kuzmanovic facilitates a sandbox-style workshop with technologists, scientists & artists at the NEM summit.


http://nem-summit.eu

 


    




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