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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.

ARTIS zoo residency Heather Barnett

Heather Barnett is looking into ant behaviour at the zoo during the Machine Wilderness residency programme, here's what happened next:

ARTIS zoo residency Driessens / Verstappen

Driessens and Verstappen bring their Spotter (AI) to ARTIS Amsterdam Royal zoo during the Machine Wilderness residency programme, here's what happened next:

Life, life support and the afterlives of (im)possible worlds

How can stories, scenarios and situations enhance agency amid chaotic circumstances?

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.

5 Things with FoAM

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Futures Brought to Life

Residency Thomas Thwaites

Residency Ian Ingram

Residency Ivan Henriques

Residency Špela Petrič

Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality

A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.

Feral Business Coaching

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

Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies

How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?

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