Thematics ๐ 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.
Machine Wilderness - ARTIS ๐ 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?
Anarchive ๐ The Anarchive looks at FoAMโs 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.
Resonances ๐ 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.
Institute for Experiments with Business ๐ 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.
Certainty Ltd. ๐ Certainty Ltd. offers support for personal and organisational transitions, including strategic unplanning, critical uncertainty diagnostics, VUCA therapy, ambient foresight, and bespoke situational awareness.
Arka Kinari ๐ 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 commonsโthe sea.
Superject ๐ 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.ย
Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality ๐ A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.
Feral Business Coaching ๐ feral business coaching is merging materials and understandings from life coaching, business strategy, feminist economics, dramaturgy, divination, DIY and design.
Approaching the Inexplicable ๐๏ธ In the slow swarm of light they remain silent, luminous. Eyes in the place of eyes, Ears in the place of ears, tongues tasting chemical gradients across the fungal network of thread-like cells.
Convivia, refugia. Not always everywhere ๐ On distributed convivia and networked refugia, shelters from the always everywhere of the Digital Age.
Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies ๐๏ธ How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?