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Hiking with Monsters, a curriculum

A semester of fieldwork and embodied research practices, where design students dive into the world of a wild animal in their area.

Woven robots for dancing together during a pandemic

We've repurposed our maypole robots so people can dance together safely (woven robots don't need to social distance).

Viruscraft evaluation and ask-me-anything

Evaluation of the viruscraft game - what do people learn from playing it, and does it result in any misunderstandings? Also a summary of questions and answers from our virus Ask-Me-Anything session.

(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.

The Evidence Support Initiative launch

We’ve been awarded seed funding to pilot a new system to encourage and facilitate scientific researchers to work with their local councils, providing on-demand advice on scientific issues to fit the needs of councillors, and perhaps also passing on the skills to find and use scientific information.

FoAM 02020

A photo album weaving together FoAM's trajectories through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of 02020.

FoAM Kernow 2020 review

A review of the FoAM Kernow studio's activities from 2020.

Tiny Mining

Joining the Tiny Mining sweatshop led by Martin Howse as a mineral exploration of the interior of the human body for rare earth and other mineral resources.

Start from not knowing...

When engaging with art, AI and everything else, start from not knowing, start from where you are. A suggestion, a talk, and a series of questions for the 20th anniversary of the Art Centre Nabi.

Comment bien démanteler ?

This article shares ideas and thinkers trying to figure out how to appropriately dismantle life-destroying extractive industries and economic activity.

A Gathering of Ghosts

A repetition is only interesting if it is a rehearsal.

Dust & Shadow in The Future of Print

How can immersive experiences stimulate engagement with printed books in a library? Here's what the experience looked like from a librarian's point of view.

"Fungi make worlds..."

"...They also unmake them"

Open call for a non-executive director

We are looking to appoint a Non-Executive Director for the FoAM Kernow studio for one year, to build our new advisory team.

Delta Casus

First results from the field exploration of the multi-species futures in the Dutch river delta region, on invitation by the Embassy of the North-sea.

FoAM digest - Autumn 02020

Some of our attempts at sensemaking while navigating uncertainty and the "turbulent times" also known as 2020.

Voicing the dawn

Reflections on rewilding my professional life through experiments with birdsong, on living and working with nature, linking sound, habitat and physiology of the time and place.

Plotting a path

Reflecting on the pandemic as a transitional process, including phases of separation, liminality and re-integration.

Step by step: building tangible livecoded braid robots

Robots as a potential tangible interface for thinking with.

Building a new Pattern Matrix with conductive thread

While processor speeds and the use of computation in our society have increased enormously, it is significant that the materials of electronics construction itself (discrete components soldered on to resin printed circuit boards) has been broadly consistent for well over fifty years.

Sonic Kayak update - new sensors, sonifications, and visualisations

An update on the Sonic Kayak project, including a chance to give us some feedback.

1000 portals

In the past few weeks I went to the park everyday, and pretend it's a beautiful forest.I found some interesting insertion points to re-connect with this environment.

Gardening in Isolation

This post is an homage to the seeding done during the pandemic and the harvest from these seeds of hope.

Sonic Kayak environmental data sonification

Results from our survey - an attempt at developing our environmental data sonification approach to be both enjoyable but also interpretable.

As systems crumble...

Ever since the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, I've got border issues. When the borders began closing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic I had a strong sense of déjà vu. Will the pandemic become yet another catalyst for violence and fragmentation? Just another reason to solidify borders and create distance from the other, the foreign, the uncanny and the unknown?

Some practices for uncertainty

Some practices that contribute to my overall well being in the midst of high levels of uncertainty.

FoAM Zenne - co-working with plants and ghosts

On the verge of it’s 20th anniversary, a regenerated FoAM Brussels reveals its future plans as FoAM Zenne. We cultivate regenerative cultural practices with humans and other-than-humans, questioning how to live (well) in times of loss and shifting cultural values.

Moving in a pandemic

A few experiential criteria for moving house during a pandemic

Will this burn down my house?

Tracing our paths in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic led us to challenge what or where is considered 'home', and what our homes could become.

Memory Practice #2

How did pre-literate cultures store the vast amounts of information their cultures needed to thrive? I'm trying out some hands-on experiments and this is how its been unfolding this spring.