| After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, listening and above all cooking, we hosted [[http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/|Smoke & Vapour]], two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted and evaporated into one other. On the first evening we invited guests from within the FoAM network who gave us feedback about the experience, based on which we tweaked various aspects of the dinner. Two days afterwards we hosted the wider public event, with visitors ranging from civil servants to food stylists, performance artists to food activists. We’re happy that both evenings were well received by our guests, and also gave us such exhilarating pleasure to produce and perform. You can find an 'insider's perspective' of Smoke & Vapour's creation in [[http://fo.am/blog/2013/12/09/creating-smoke-vapour/|Maja’s blog post]], browse the [[http://libarynth.org/open_sauces:smoke_vapour|documentation of the process, inspirations, and specially designed recipes]], and peruse the [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635490865219/|photos spanning the entire production]]. Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. | After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, listening and above all cooking, we hosted [[http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/|Smoke & Vapour]], two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted and evaporated into one other. On the first evening we invited guests from within the FoAM network who gave us feedback about the experience, based on which we tweaked various aspects of the dinner. Two days afterwards we hosted the wider public event, with visitors ranging from civil servants to food stylists, performance artists to food activists. We’re happy that both evenings were well received by our guests, and also gave us such exhilarating pleasure to produce and perform. You can find an 'insider's perspective' of Smoke & Vapour's creation in [[http://fo.am/blog/2013/12/09/creating-smoke-vapour/|Maja’s blog post]], browse the [[http://libarynth.org/open_sauces:smoke_vapour|documentation of the process, inspirations, and specially designed recipes]], and peruse the [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635490865219/|photos spanning the entire production]]. Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. |
| FoAM Nordica’s **Foodprints publication** by Anna Maria Orru, Johan Zetterquist and David Relan has made it onto printed paper, and looks great. Examining the role of food in urban renewal, it represents the nourishing culmination of many projects, people, networks and ideas in the field. Meanwhile, a prototype app and website of the Foodprints Ruler is in the making. Anna Maria talked about it recently at the Switched on Nature event at Shift in the Stockholm Resilience centre, where they've been hacking the space between nature and technology on themes of resilience. | FoAM Nordica’s [[http://fo.am/foodprints-book/|Foodprints publication]] by Anna Maria Orru, Johan Zetterquist and David Relan has made it onto printed paper, and looks great. Examining the role of food in urban renewal, it represents the nourishing culmination of many projects, people, networks and ideas in the field. Meanwhile, a prototype app and website of the [[http://payload19.cargocollective.com/1/6/195556/2699591/Foodprints_ruler%20cover.jpg|Foodprints Ruler]] is in the making. Anna Maria talked about it recently at the [[http://www.shifts.se/|Switched on nature]] event at Shift in the Stockholm Resilience centre, where they've been hacking the space between nature and technology on themes of resilience. |
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