**NOTE: this is a partially [un]formatted and edited version of [[blog_dump_20130509]] to copypaste into the various parts of the blog [[archive]]** TODO * chekc broken img tags esp. flickr * author links * list formatting * random html chunks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Im Garten / In The Garden Exhibition ==== 2012-10-04 11:33:35 by Monique Alvarez **Living Spaces between desire and experiment ** {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/6245344591}} {{http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6213/6245344591_d94cf592de.jpg}} The exhibition "In the Garden - Living spaces between desire and experiment" run by the Linz-based museum Nordico took a look at Linz specific urban garden sceneries as well as it examines contemporary, international relevant gardening-architectures and current practices like Community or Guerilla Gardening. {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157627772267615/}} See images of the exhibition [[http://timesup.org/resilients/gardendesire|Find out more]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Mathematickal Arts Workshop ==== 2012-10-04 12:17:05 by Monique Alvarez {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5984767364/}} Mathematician and machine artist Tim Boykett (Time's Up, AT) and textile designer and educator Carole Collet (Central Saint Martins College, UK) will lead a three-day workshop bringing together the arts of mathematics, textiles and computer programming. The Mathematickal Arts workshop investigates the tangible, abstract and conceptual threads binding materials and machines in a series of practical and theoretical experiments. Participants will use knots, weaving, sorting algorithms, notation and geometry to explore unfamiliar territories of mathematics or crafts using familiar practices of artistic and technological experimentation. "To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space. A bit of string affords the dimensional latitude that is unique among the entities... another dimension is added which provides an opportunity that is limited only by the scope of our own imagery and the length of a ropemakers coil." - Clifford W. Ashley, The Book of Knots **[[:mathematickal_arts_2011|Notes from the workshop]]** [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== The Guild and the Garret: A Resilients Salon ==== guild-and-garret-resilients-salon A Resilients Salon with Dougald Hine and Ben Vickers {{http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6110/7029010379_f1eae75377.jpg" alt="spr ingc afe" width="500" height="329" /> 2012-10-04 12:23:39 by Monique Alvarez Writer and collapsonomist Dougald Hine hosts a conversation about how we make a living and support each other in times of precariousness and disruption. As artist-in-transience with The Resilients Project, he is exploring the possibilities of guild-like structures of mutual aid as a strategy for resilience. Dougald will be joined by his regular co-conspirator, Ben Vickers, who has been part of the Temporary School of Thought, the Really Free School and The University Project, and is currently developing a Professional (Reality) Development Programme for arts students at Brighton University. Resilients Salons are conversations about cultural resilience in its many forms. Every salon hosts a guest who engages participants in a discussion about a resilience-related topic, such as long-term thinking, augmented gardening or disaster drills. The atmosphere is casual to inspire participation of everyone involved, accompanied with thematic food and drinks. The salons are a part of the pan-European Resilients Project where six organisations speculate on and experiment with possible futures. This Resilients Salon is a part of Springcamp 2012 - System Error: in times of crisis, artists take a stand. Springcamp is organised and hosted by Timelab, in collaboration with Argos, Vooruit, Beursschouwburg and FoAM. **{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157629335720956/with/7029019697/}} See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== TryAdd and Resilients Salon ==== tryadd-and-resilients-salon On Leadership and Crisis: Complexity, Emergence and Relationship Mapping {{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6839848204_25cd8ec260.jpg" alt="120209-174118" width="500" height="333" /> 2012-10-04 12:46:58 by Monique Alvarez Julian Still leads us into the heart of complex systems, illustrating his voyages as systemic practitioner and his continuing mission to explore and help strange new worlds evolve. Julian will join us for an inspiring discussion on leading and coaching organisations through crisis. Emergence, relationship mapping and constellations will be investigated and explored both theoretically and tangibly. Julian Still is COO when the impossible is required, green entrepreneur and systemics visionary. An expert in leadership and crisis, he leads, coaches and teaches organisations and individuals facing the most difficult situations. Just before the Salon, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Vali Lalioti facilitates a TryAdd with business coaches. The event is organised in collaboration with Vali Lalioti and FoAM as part of the Resilients initiative. **{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157629229905166/}} See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Buratinas ==== buratinas {{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/7295542198_3b6cd602d4.jpg" alt="Buratinas (second coming)" width="500" height="310" /> 2012-10-04 13:04:22 by Monique Alvarez Buratinas is a project and a boat run by individuals from two Brussels organizations, **FoAM** and **Nadine**. Looking at the well-known mobility crisis in Brussels and the obvious availability of one major transportation route straight through the city, Buratinas proposes an alternative means of transportation by bringing a solar-powered taxi service to Festival Kanaal. The Buratinas Taxi Service offers people the possibility of transportation through Brussels in an ever-so-slow duck's-eye-view sightseeing experience. Taking its time to show rather than move people around, It serves as a romantic, idiosyncratic glue between the various locations of the Festival. During these trips an old seafarer's habit will be revived where true, imagined, old, recent and downright outrageous stories will be offered and accepted as currency for the service. **{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157629953350548/}} See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ---------------------------------------- ==== Resilients Salon at Burning Ice ==== resilients-salon-burning-ice FoAM hosts a conversation about human-plant interactions in gardens, labs and kitchens, with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Angelo Vermeulen, Time's Up, nadine on the closing evening of the Burning Ice Festival in Brussels. {{http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7082/7371570816_dbee206c51.jpg" alt="4" width="500" height="336" /> 2012-10-04 13:31:17 by Monique Alvarez "I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century. This means reaching back in time to models that were successful fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years ago. When this is done it becomes possible to see plants as food, shelter, clothing, and sources of education and religion." -Terrence McKenna At the epicentre of culture, gardening and technology we might be able to glimpse how plants can become organisational principles for human society in the turbulent times of the 21st century. Although we have to scavenge the fringes of contemporary society, we can observe many healing effects that humans can have on their surroundings through a symbiotic collaboration with plants. However, on a holistic level, we still don't know how to overhaul wasteful human behaviours en masse. How do we encourage a more resilient culture, so that humans and non-humans can continue living, preferably together? How do we stimulate a fertile entanglement of culture, gardening and technology that can give the rise to diverse communities of practice? Communities capable of forging symbiotic relationships between post-industrial human societies and the rest of the earth. Composting bitterness to grow beauty. To explore possible answers to such questions, FoAM hosts a Resilients Salon on Vegetal Culture, in conversation with Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Angelo Vermeulen, Time's Up, nadine and other participants of Burning Ice. The atmosphere is casual to inspire participation of everyone involved, accompanied with thematic food and drinks. Inspired by the title of the festival - We The Gardeners - FoAM invites all guests to bring one or more tomatoes from their garden, windowsill, or a neighbourhood green-grocer, as an entrance-fee. During the salon the tomatoes will be cooked into a soup and shared with everyone, as a closing feast of Burning Ice 2012. {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157630072052991/}} See images of this event [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Unmanned Resillience team in Kilpisjärvi ==== unmanned-resillience-team-arctic {{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8488/8212392390_d7e6a34e55_z.jpg" alt="SINUNISuomi 001" width="640" height="427" /> 2012-11-23 23:04:04 by Uros Veber {{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8488/8212392390_d7e6a34e55_z.jpg" alt="SINUNISuomi 001" width="640" height="427" /> A part of the Unmanned Resilence Team (Marko, Matthew, Kenny and Hafiz) are continuing to develop SINUNI sensor network and flying the Bramor UAS on orto-photo missions. This time they are way up north in the Arctic Circle, occupying the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, situated in the mountain birch forest zone near the 70th parallel of northern latitude (69°03′N; 20°50′E) in the northwesterenmost part of Finland until the end of November. Apparently aurora borealis has already been detected. {{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8480/8211304359_1c209dd44a_z.jpg" alt="aurora_20112012_mountain" width="640" height="427" /> For more notes and blogs entries posted by our API / Resilients team in residency in Kilpisjaervi, FI, check out this link [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== picking season ==== picking-season {{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8206/8231126579_c5760f0467_o.jpg}}

: I was almost sure that the NGG picking season is over and i was about to take a winter break from mushrooms for a while

2012-11-30 10:01:26 by

{{http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8481/8243840827_3022b2ddae_o.jpg" alt="" /> I was sure that the NGG picking season is over and thought of taking a winter break from mushrooms. It has been raining quite a bit since last days here in B and now the mushrooms are up again, in fact in my post box. At the first look - an innocent little parcel colorfully packed with the familiar to me return address of TU-Land. Hm, did i forget something they do not want to keep around or do they want to poison me with some kind of newly appeared mushroom? "Both guesses are wrong;) surprise. xtn". Well-well, at last one of my guesses was close to the surprise's content: Of course it's about mushrooms! Both poisonous and non. 32 types in total. Painted by A. Shpilenko. Printed out on coated paper. As a postcards. Moscow. 1976. The original price: 1 Ruble, 20 Kopeek. Sold out for 3,- Euro. Bought by TU. At the auction/Foam. Signed by 1,2,3,4... resilients --Bwhoo, just like a fairy tale with a happy end..!! (Thank you guys. Ah, of course i like..................................................................You;) 29.11.12 ñ [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Resilients: The Flotilla ==== 2012-12-05 13:46:36 by Monique Alvarez The prehearsal of the Resilients, starting at 12:12:12 on the 12-12-12, the Anti-Apocalypse Day. It is an exercise for the members of the Resilients Guild, to pre-enact a possible future scenario named "The Flotilla" "In this possible future, The Resilients guild with members and cells around the world decides to lift its anchor. There is no security of funding or the status of artists as independent operators. The arts have become radically bureaucratised, reaching Kafka-esque proportions. The cost of living is prohibitively expensive. Individual artistic careers are impossible to attain, except for the select few artists who serve the tastes of the rich and famous. Universities have become machines for producing papers, but education and research happen elsewhere - in alternative, ad-hoc spaces, in collectives of people eager to learn. Technologists are either brainwashed into serving the capitalist machinery, or drop out and become sought after hackers, feeding technological resistance movements. Environmentalists are disillusioned by the global apathy and are either growing more radical, or attempt to infiltrate the political and economic systems, just to be slowly swallowed and transformed by them. Small groups of people retreat into a bucolic mirage of intentional communities and village life, where permaculture and new age intermingle into a somewhat escapist mixture. The members of the Resilients became tired of fighting the windmills and see that the only way forward is to fully commit themselves to the collective vision they've been cultivating over the years and begin growing their own world: The flotilla, a distributed, semi-nomadic troupe sharing a collective vision of the world and their place in it." A 24 hour period in the Flotilla will be experienced by those participating, enacting the working life in this possible future. A debriefing session attempts to unravel the responses to this lifestyle, to look at the ways that the experiences gathered there can echo into the present to inform our ongoing activities. [[:resilients/the flotilla]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Dougald Hine, Journeyman: transiency and cultural resilience ==== dougald-hine-journeyman-interview-transiency-and-cultural-resilience Dougald started a transiency at foam in July 2012, exploring the role of the Journeyman and what this could mean to the Resilients Guild. His travels took him to interesting places and conversations across Europe, reflecting on cultural resilience, travelling and the absurdity of foresight. This interview was taken while reflecting in Rab, Croatia in July 2012 in the middle of his transiency. 2013-01-04 14:48:50 by shelbatra jashari

"I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. For the first two weeks, I travelled fast: visiting people and projects that had been on my mind, recording the traces of the journey and the chance encounters to which it led. After that, I slowed down, spending time with groups of friends and collaborators, first in Croatia and later in Denmark. All of these journeys were made by rail and by ferry. Over the later part of the summer, I began to write up some of the longer reflections from the journey, picking up further threads of conversation along the way. As of October, I am gradually completing the map of my travels with notes from the journey."

- Dougald Hine

More information: http://rhapsodi.se/resilients/?page_id=41

Interview with Dougald about the different aspects of his work and more particularly his view on cultural resilience and the role of "Journeyman" in our times.

The transcript of the interview with Dougold can be found here: http://lib.fo.am/resilients/dougald_hine_interview [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Questioning Resilience ==== 2013-02-17 02:50:47 by Nik Gaffney In Words which Matter to People, Dougald Hine questions the concept of "resilience" itself - not through academic debate, but by talking to people on the streets of Helsinki about the Finnish word sisu. Comparing their visceral and culturally grounded use of this concept with the distant, etiolated notion of "resilience" as it is deployed in political, environmental and scientific discourse, he finds that the meaning we make or find in the world - embodied in such notions as sisu - is deeply bound up with our capacity to endure in turbulent times. Read more about Dougald's travels as journeyman and artist in transience in his wide-ranging conversation with Shelbatra Jashari for the Resilients project. Read more at [[:resilients/resilients_in_review|Resilients in Review]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Boating, Control of the Commons and Aristology ==== 2013-02-17 02:54:59 by Nik Gaffney Tim Boykett, Pippa Buchannan and a motley crew of enthusiastic DIY sailors embarked on an exploration of water rights and "luminous green" sailing in Control of the Commons. In Resilient Boating, Tim writes of sustainability, graceful decay, and the balance of effort versus utility in the realm of boat building and sailing, while Pippa recounts how a confessed food lover embraces the challenge of improvised gourmet cooking for several people on a tiny boat in The Resilient Aristologist. Each of their boating adventures is narrated in the Murray River Journey, the Danube Journey, and the Belgian Canals - as are the details of how they went about constructing the two vessels they sailed, the Subak1 and Subak2. Also check out some notes towards a manifesto of a DIY pirate. Read more at [[:resilients/resilients_in_review|Resilients in Review]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Mushrooms and urban gardening ==== 2013-02-17 02:55:56 by Nik Gaffney Natalia Borissova explored augmented urban gardening through a series of living lab experiments with "non-green" mushrooms, finding in fungi an infinite source of inspiration for recycling and adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Her practical explorations in mushroom growing are documented in The Non Green (R)evolution, while Go Ask a Mushroom: musings on Afterculture advocates fungi and their mycelial roots as a source of continued inspiration for a resilient "life after culture." At the same time, Dismas Leonard Sekibaha narrates his experiences at Time's Up as "gardener in residence" - of both the green and non-green variety - in My Summer in an Urban Garden. Read more at [[:resilients/resilients_in_review|Resilients in Review]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Leaks, Alchemy and the silient side of things ==== 2013-02-17 02:56:48 by Nik Gaffney [[:resilients:edible_alchemy" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/edible_alchemy">Edible Alchemy by Carole Collet and Bartaku discusses resilience and adaptation in relation to the properties of two intriguing plants - flax and Aronia - and how these were used in Temporary photoElectric Digestopians (TpED), a series of co-creation worklabs, and the Edible Alchemy Aperolab. [[:resilients:resilience_thinking_diy" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/resilience_thinking_diy">Resilience Thinking DIY was an exercise held at Central Saint Martin's College and summarised here to encourage readers to practice resilient thinking in design. [[:resilients:a_leaky_loop" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/a_leaky_loop">A Leaky Loop by Bartaku narrates the kind of intimate and bizarre experience you can expect as a TpED creator and tester, while [[:resilients:silients" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/silients">Silients is a fragmentary meditation on a peculiar variation of "resilients." Read more at [[:resilients/resilients_in_review|Resilients in Review]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== If you can't pay for a loaf... ==== 2013-02-17 02:58:49 by Nik Gaffney In connection with the Unmanned Resilience case study, Uroš Veber interviewed Helena Krapež, the owner of an excursion farm on the Gora plateau in western Slovenia. [[:resilients:bake_your_own" href="http://lib.fo.am/resilients/bake_your_own">If you can't pay for a loaf, go bake your own is a fascinating ethnographic glimpse into the state of farming in this region, and by extension, the changes and upheavals taking place in wider society - not to mention the resourcefulness of one woman in challenging circumstances. Read more at [[:resilients/resilients_in_review|Resilients in Review]] [[archive|Blog Archive]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== Resilients online ==== 2013-03-29 00:55:42 by Alkan Chipperfield {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/6918397210/}} {{http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5152/6918397210_ebfeece57d_o.jpg}} We are pleased to announce the compilation of the [[:resilients/|Resilients online publication]], representing the collected reflections and working notes gleaned from two years' prolific intentional voyages, experimental situations and real-life labs exploring creative resilient practices. Beautifully illustrated with specially-commissioned imagery from Strangehalos, we present this rich body of material as both a finished chronicle of our endeavours and as a plentiful archive of working ideas and notes that can be built on and modified by anyone interested in pursuing it further. In this way http://resilients.net can be approached from several angles: skim through the topics that interest you, peruse it as a reader, or drill deeper into the unruly compost of notes, quotes, and further reading to get at the raw matériel for future fabulations. We invite you in whatever way that suits to explore, be inspired by and build on the work presented here - which we believe will surely only become more relevant as this brave new century unfolds. [[archive|Blog Archive]] -----------------------------------------------------------------------