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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.

Viridian & Virescent

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An ode to viriditas, the greening energy of all life. Mixed by Lowdjo on spring equinox 2023-03-20.

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.

Zoöp & the practice of Zoönomy

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Zoöp is an organisational model that allows organisations of many kinds to collaborate with nonhuman life.

The Infinite Table

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Firebreak Banana Bread: An Edible Timeline

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This is a recipe for bread. A recipe is a form of time travel you can taste. The primary ingredients for this recipe are wheat, bananas, and treenuts. Each ingredient represents a way of eating and being: one each for yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

The Viriditas Chapel

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

Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails

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

You down with O.P.P.?

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Hip-Deep in the Thick Present #8. Outside of glassmaking, to talk of a bottleneck is to talk of the point in a system where bandwidth—the capacity of traffic which can be reliably passed through that point—is restricted.

Ever Given

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Hip-Deep in the Thick Present #6: Remember how back in the first act of the Covid pandemic, a big ship went and got itself stuck in the Suez Canal?

Calibrating Experiences of the Future

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Creating written or fabricated artefacts to communicate possible futures is probably the most fun part of working in the futures field. As the final step in a longer process, artefacts often offer the widest latitude to engage the intended audience.

Arts Thinking in a VUCA World

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A call for developing arts-based techniques – combining scientific evidence, technological development, and social dreaming with humility and flow – to create positive visions and support those who are acting on them.

Experiential Dreamscapes

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One of the more powerful ideas when futuring is not around predicting what will happen, but imagining what might happen.

Recovering Experts

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Dave Griffiths and Maya Weeks discuss everything from transporting Raspberry Pis on Sonic Kayaks to reenvisioning citizen science as a way to distribute research skills beyond academia and affect local policy.

With All Caveats

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Manifesto Writing in an Age of Uncertainty

To care, with care, for care

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To care for someone is to allow yourself to be touched.

Seed Crystal

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An emerging soundtrack for FoAM's Anarchive, mixed by Lowdjo on winter solstice 2022-12-21

Gathered and Scattered

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On the remarkable possibilities for conviviality through screens and cameras, but also their limitations.

A Mutable Symbol

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The soap bubble is a floating, shimmering thin-filmed sphere of almost nothing, and yet it evokes the whole world and many other distant worlds beyond it.

Coaching by Numbers

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

Feral Business Training Camp - MOMENTUM 12

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15 June

FLOAT - Feral MBA

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25 February