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While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere turns inwards and descends into wintry hibernation, | While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere turns inwards and descends into wintry hibernation, | ||
- | At FoAM Brussels we continue deepening and broadening our work with food systems, speculative culture and synaesthetic experiences. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts and thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a short guided tour of the highlights. We feel that some of these are peak experiences not only of the last few months, but indeed of our work at FoAM as a whole. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! | + | At FoAM Brussels we continue deepening and broadening our work with food systems, speculative culture and synaesthetic experiences. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts and thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a guided tour of the highlights. We feel that some of these are peak experiences not only of the last few months, but indeed of our work at FoAM as a whole. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! |
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Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on developing the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. | Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on developing the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. | ||
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== Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | ||
- | Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has both been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar? | + | Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar? |
In September Dave Griffiths attended ‘Collaboration and learning through live coding’, a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, | In September Dave Griffiths attended ‘Collaboration and learning through live coding’, a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, | ||
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- | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: Doing Nothing. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector but also the wider society of Europe and beyond, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, | + | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: |
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