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arg_tutorial [2013-02-05 06:54] – [Introduction to Six to Start by Adrian Hon and Matt Wieteska] majaparn:arg_tutorial [2014-03-04 01:35] nik
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 ==== Introduction by Maja Kuzmanovic ==== ==== Introduction by Maja Kuzmanovic ====
  
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 Welcome to the first in the series of [[http://fo.am/parn/|PARN]] tutorials. PARN((PARN is a European project on Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives. The project is coordinated by Time's Up in Austria, with FoAM in Belgium, Blast Theory and Light House in the UK.  Welcome to the first in the series of [[http://fo.am/parn/|PARN]] tutorials. PARN((PARN is a European project on Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives. The project is coordinated by Time's Up in Austria, with FoAM in Belgium, Blast Theory and Light House in the UK. 
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 FoAM's contribution to PARN is an ARN about human-plant interaction. This is a topic that FoAM has been exploring for over 10 years in the groWorld initiative (http://fo.am/groworld). Over the years, we realised that there is a disconnect between communities interested in plants, such as elderly gardeners and young gamers for example. At the same time, all the different plant enthusiasts tell stories - from foraging adventures, to gardening blogs, no matter what their relationship with plants, they all have stories to tell about them. Furthermore, our cultures are full of myths and fairy tales about plants and yet in the last decennia plants were neglected in the mainstream culture. This is slowly beginning to change, and at FoAM we'd like to capture this momentum to connect the different plant stories together. AN ARN/ARG seems to be a promising format.  FoAM's contribution to PARN is an ARN about human-plant interaction. This is a topic that FoAM has been exploring for over 10 years in the groWorld initiative (http://fo.am/groworld). Over the years, we realised that there is a disconnect between communities interested in plants, such as elderly gardeners and young gamers for example. At the same time, all the different plant enthusiasts tell stories - from foraging adventures, to gardening blogs, no matter what their relationship with plants, they all have stories to tell about them. Furthermore, our cultures are full of myths and fairy tales about plants and yet in the last decennia plants were neglected in the mainstream culture. This is slowly beginning to change, and at FoAM we'd like to capture this momentum to connect the different plant stories together. AN ARN/ARG seems to be a promising format. 
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 For FoAM stories are just a beginning - they are a way to test a possible future in a safe, playful setting. Our challenge is to engage people and plants long after the ARN/ARG finishes. Our aim is to stimulate development of a vegetal culture that sees plants as organisational principles for human society in this century - following clockworks, steam machines and computers. A vegetal society has rich, introspective qualities, is able to purify and enrich its environment and is aware of its entanglement with every animate and inanimate being on its path. Before a vegetal society can take root, we'd like to capture people's imagination with stories of an alternate reality, set in an atemporal world in which plants and humans cultivate each other. As Fukuoka said in One Straw Revolution: "The ultimate goal of farming is not growing of crops, but cultivation and perfection of human beings." For FoAM stories are just a beginning - they are a way to test a possible future in a safe, playful setting. Our challenge is to engage people and plants long after the ARN/ARG finishes. Our aim is to stimulate development of a vegetal culture that sees plants as organisational principles for human society in this century - following clockworks, steam machines and computers. A vegetal society has rich, introspective qualities, is able to purify and enrich its environment and is aware of its entanglement with every animate and inanimate being on its path. Before a vegetal society can take root, we'd like to capture people's imagination with stories of an alternate reality, set in an atemporal world in which plants and humans cultivate each other. As Fukuoka said in One Straw Revolution: "The ultimate goal of farming is not growing of crops, but cultivation and perfection of human beings."
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