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Reporting (financial and technical) Enacting futures paper for the futures journal (FoAM)
Future of Future Fabulators: final event and consortium meeting
M-ITI and Time'sUp exhibition of the Context Aware Physical Narratives: Lucid Peninsula (More info Here)
Family Residency Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Ivy and Fiona (some notes)
Graphic design and editorial futurist fieldguide
Preparing Lucid Peninsula (lucid_dreaming_implementation) for Exhibition Demo at Creativity and Cognition Glasgow, UK (M-ITI and Time's Up)
documenting and summarizing results of the Possible Futures of Migration scenario session (Time's Up)
Possible Futures of Migration scenario session in Linz, Kunstraum Goethestrasse. images on flickr, first review in Loose Diary (Time's Up)
monthly skype update
Finalizing the preparations for “Possible Futures of Migration“ Scenario Session (Time's Up / FoAM)
Open Call for participation for Possible Futures of Migration scenario planning session with concentration on Linz (Time's Up)
Fieldguide chapter meander (FoAM)
(M-iti) RIXC Renewable Futures Conf paper (accepted)
M-ITI has a paper in Cultures in Sustainable Futures conference.
Meeting Mariana Pestana of V&A in London about possible exhibition in 2017 (FoAM)
Anarchodandyist pre-enactment at Fo[am]tones, FoAM
monthly skype update
Policy Lab OnSite (psw protected) #1 workshop 21 April: Social Change in a hyper-connected era, JRC, Brussels, Belgium (FoAM)
Future Agenda workshop in Köln (FoAM)
M-ITI is carring an evaluation of the Public Exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Berlin: Yasmine's Adventures, an interactive context aware narrative
Writing and putting online the first draft of Futurist Fieldguide, to be written and edited on the libarynth. (FoAM)
Dismembered and forked futurish for inclusion in the fieldguide, articles on medium, blog posts, etc (FoAM)
M-ITI is writing up for the conference ICEC title: 'Yasmine’s Adventures: An interactive urban experience exploring the socio cultural potential of Digital entertainment'
Sonic Acts: Geologic Imagination, with a workshop by Martin Howse and Nik Gaffney and a panel on the Noise in the Electromagnetic Spectrum moderated by Nik, as a follow-up of Nik's Dark Ecologies journey in October 2014.
Editing futurish (FoAM)
Designing futurist_fieldguide (FoAM)
Discussions and proposals for a possible follow-up of FFab as part of a bid for Pula2020 cultural capital.
Beginning of implementation, embodiment for Mind the Map in close connection to Possible Futures of Migration in Europe (Time's Up)
Scenario Planning: Capstone future scenarios 2015.
Lucid Peninsula video-production (Time's Up)
Finissage Future Fictions (FoAM)
FFab - Future Lunchbox #5 Hypotopia - Die Milliardenstadt. Introduction of a compelling model of a possible city, envision a fully functional, sustainable city of the future.
A-Z Lecture (FoAM)
Godsheide Apero with the inhabitants of Godheide and researchers from UHasselt (FoAM)
Agoras workshop by Pantopicon (FoAM)
Final sketching and development of the Physical Narrative Mind the Map (Time's Up)
Godsheide Futures workshop with Arck, UHasselt (FoAM)
FTA2014 conference #foresight4EU (in particular new_approaches_and_needs_in_foresight) (FoAM)
Extrapolation Factory Workshop as part of Future Fictions (FoAM,TU)
Residency Alex Davies (TU, FoAM)
Narrative Strategies Symposium “Prototyping the Intangible” (M-ITI, FoAM, TU, AltArt). Info on the program here
Laurisilva Futures workshop (M-ITI, FoAM, TU, AltArt). More info here
various design fiction experiments with MA students, Hasselt, Z33 with details at futures card games. (FoAM)
Dark Ecology fieldtrip (FoAM)
The Futures of Doing Nothing scenario workshop at Z33 (FoAM)
“FoAM Apero in the Futures Lab” at Z33 (FoAM)
Future Fictions exhibition, with continuous FFab presence in the Futures Lab and the Doing Nothing pre-enactment (FoAM)
Opening of “Future Fictions” exhibition at Z33 (FoAM) With Food Futures reception
Opening of Lucid Pensinsula Exhibition (AltArt, M-ITI, FoAM, TU)
M-iti will start working on a new Context Narrative Experience.
Opening of the Lucid Pensinsula Exhibition (TU, M-ITI) images on flickr,announcement Institute for media-archaeology
Registrations open for the The futures of doing nothing workshop
Third and last PULSE visioning day
For summaries see pulse_visiedagen
Site visit in Hainburg for the lucid dreaming implementation.
Designing instruction cards for lucid dreaming a storyworld
Cleaning up documentation on http://lib.fo.am/future_fabulators/
Writing and designing promotional materials and atmospheres for The Futures Lab of the Future Fictions exhibition
Test of what's in the box exercise in the Guerilla Futures summer course of the Situation Lab (OCAD University) by Stuart Candy
Embodiment Lucid Peninsula lucid_dreaming_implementation, images
Microresidency Stuart Candy
lucid_dreaming_implementation Framing of a Physical Narrative for the implementations of a scenario for exhibitions
Lecce 2019 - possible European Capital of Culture. Conception for a long-term project, continuing Future Fabulators ideas and strands.
North Sea Region Sail interim conference, looking at sail driven and wind assisted ocean transport in the region and globally. Some notes.
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Interim report (All) Newsletter and several blogposts mentioning Future Fabulators and/or specific activities (FoAM):
visualizing the invisible scenario workshop and pre-enactment (FoAM)
Future Fabulators retreat (all) near and distanced futures of Future Fabulators- images
xcoax workshop and pre-enactment (FoAM, all)
FFab - Future Lunchbox #4 with Ulli & Klaus Sambor: Unconditional Basic Income; notes & link collection
Law & lore of the sea - a panel discussion looking at the plights and hopes of refugees, seasteaders, pirates, anarchists, free spirits, rescuers and tax dodgers. As part of our research in Possible Futures of Migration. (Time's Up)
Second of three PULSE Visiedagen workshops for the PULSE network. Second day included incasting and pre-enactment (FoAM)
Lucid Dreaming Storyworld extension towards a submission for a residency at PICA in Western Australia 2015
monthly skype update
Nik Gaffney & Maja Kuzmanovic talk (remotely) about Future Fabulators at Vitalstatistix, part of Sarah Neville's Adhocracy residency (FoAM)
Adhocracy residency by Sarah Neville & family, as a follow-up of Weatherlore residency (FoAM)
Retrocasting Michka Melo's Edge Hiker scenario (FoAM)
Experiments wtih lucid dreaming a storyworld (Time's Up & FoAM)
booksprint post DE14 (all…) Photos:by Barbara and by FoAM (FoAM's Album includes Data Ecologies)
Data Ecologies '14 symposium; Notes: Time's Up; FoAM
Future Fabulators in Residency: Mara Dionisio from M-ITI at Time's Up; Practioner in Residency; Maras blogentry
PULSE Visiedagen scenario workshop for the pulse network (FoAM)
writing abstracts for DE14 and xCoAx (FoAM)
FFab - Future Lunchbox #3 with Christian Lanz: Introduction to a multi-level platform using the concept of of a “time-stockmarket”. http://www.timesozial.org/index.php?id=38
monthly skype update
design and planning PULSE Visiedagen and begining design for Future Fictions (FoAM)
transiency scenarios with Michka Melo (FoAM)
Online documentation of food futures and Lisa Ma's microresidency (FoAM)
LateLab Open Sauces event at the Edinburgh Science Festival, based on food scenarios and food futures (FoAM)
Translating food scenarios into a tasting menu (FoAM)
development and exhibition of Tales of Resilience (Time's Up) images
Microresidency of Lisa Ma, speculative designer, developing a concept of “Bioluddites”. The residency ended with a public research gathering (FoAM)
First pass at using CLA and Generic Futures methods to explore food futures. Designed four food scenarios (FoAM)
Meeting with PULSE about facilitating scenario building and prehearsals for their Visioning Days in May, June, September, October. (FoAM)
Design meeting with Karen Verschoren for the Future Fictions exhibition, decision to collaborate on the Future Fictions Lab (FoAM)
Skype with Time's Up about Data Ecologies, Book sprint and Storyworld construction in May-June 2014 (Time's Up, FoAM)
FFab - Future Lunchbox #2 with Gerhard Dirmoser Current developments on renewable energies and their implementation in Austria
monthly skype update
Literature research summary on pages linked from background (FoAM)
preliminary reference collection at https://www.zotero.org/groups/future_fabulators/items (FoAM)
action foresight experiential futures integral futures design fiction scenario methods prehearsal methods
collecting Possible Futures & Parallel Presents, crowdsourced futures, experiential futures and method agglomeration scenario methods, prehearsal methods, other interesting background research filled with unexplored rabit holes, unsorted references and notes (FoAM)
various threads > forecasting, non predictive strategy, scenario_building confabulations
5 whys exercise related to experimental futurism at FOAM, formulating the beginning of a position statement
Editing Scenarios and underlying pages (FoAM)
Second intense phase for sketching & developing Mind The Map, connected to Possible Futures of Migration (Time's Up)
Beginning of research phase for Data Ecologies14
monthly skype update
Scenario Session on M-ITI Capstone projects in Human Computer Interaction and Media Entertainment Technology notes, summary from the session the sessions
“M-ITI Futures” scenario workshops lead by Maja and Nik from FoAM. http://fo.am/miti-scenario-workshops/ (FoAM & MITI)
More information on the future scenarios developed
M-iti is starting to develop new software for context aware narratives. Mara Dionisio will be joining the Future Fabulators team.
Updates, restructuring, cleaning up of the FFab wiki, writing missing scenarios.
FoAM Newsletter featuring Future Fabulators
monthly skype update
Meeting with Guy Guypens of Kaaitheater about a scenario workshop at the end of March as part of the Burning Ice festival
design and development of the two scenario workshops taking place at M-ITI in January 2014, facilitated by FoAM
First sketch for Mind The Map, connected to Possible Futures of Migration
monthly skype update.
Research kick-off on the future of migration in Europe for Mind The Map (Time's Up)
Approaching Science Communication; Time's Up meets Center for advanced Bioanalysis (CBL)
Final Decision on the Future Fabulators CI is made
The future of the city future scenario session / workshop with AltArt (all partners, facilitated by AltArt
Site visit at Le Lieu Unique. Associated partner in FFab, which will exhibit results of FFab in 2014 and/or 2015 Overview Le Lieu Unique some images
Visit at the B3 - Moving Image Biennial about “Expanded Narration”. Webpage Biennial and some Notes From BBB13
Human Invasive Interaction scenario workshop (FoAM)
monthly skype update
various wiki editing, trailer searching and chocolate eating
EACEA KickOff meeting that was more useful than the last one. Andrea and Tim.
breakfast meeting with Schwarzen Bären and friends, Debriefing notes of both of the sessions (all partners)
scenario planning session on "Fear 2033". (all partners, session lead by FoAM) images on flickr
Future Fabulators Coordination Meeting, starting with what is the legacy of Future Fabulators. (all partners, session facilitated by FoAM)
26th - 29th of September, FoAM and Time's Up attended at Practical Utopias / Brioni Summit 2013 http://practicalutopias.org/ / Developed and organized by YKON and Drugo More and co-organized by Electra
Presentation at Improving Reality 2013. (FoAM)