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+==== Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN) ====
+The central focus of the PARN project is on creating, presenting and representing narratives in physical space. Storytelling is a fundamental human capacity and is widespread in a variety of cultural forms as well as being one of the ways in which, according to many researchers of learning and awareness, we make sense of the world as we experience and reflect it. As the acclaimed poet Simon Ortiz puts it: “there are no truths, only stories.”
+FoAM’s role in PARN is to research and design an alternate reality narrative, an emerging story-scape inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s creed “the ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” With the advent of massive urbanisation, labour specialisation and new forms of entertainment, our relationship with nature has become frayed. This relationship can be re-invigorated by straddling the places where nature and culture are most distanced - urban and online environments. With alternate reality narratives (ARN), we look at engaging people in a new kind of immersive story, where nature and culture interact. The story embraces the innovative and participatory capabilities of new technologies, adapted to today’s turbulent ecosystems and grounded in the cultural traditions of the past. The ARNs combine a range of contemporary storytelling media with diverse European urban contexts, cultures and people, through a rich story and speculative history. PARN is coordinated by Time’s Up (AT), in collaboration with FoAM (BE), Lighthouse (UK) and Blast Theory (UK). FoAM’s additional allies and advisors in PARN are Six to Start (UK), Foamlab (NL), Sinfonye (UK) and Tale of Tales (BE).
 ==== Borrowed Scenery ====
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   * http://fo.am/borrowed-scenery
-==== Tutorials & digressions ====
+==== Alternate Reality Tutorials ====
+FoAM's [[Alternate Reality Tutorials]], including:
   * [[Alternate Reality Games Tutorial]]: overview of the field
-    * [[:arg tutorial]]: notes from the tutorial
+    * [[:ARG tutorial]]: notes from the tutorial
   * [[Approaching The Inexplicable]]: thoughts behind the Radio Mycelium and Silent Dialogues tutorials
-    * [[:radio mycelium]]: workshop notes
+    * [[:Radio Mycelium]]: workshop notes
-    * [[:silent dialogues notes]]: working notes
+    * [[:Silent Dialogues notes]]: working notes
     * [[:mpeir]] device notes
   * [[The Story of Tarot|Tarot Tutorial]]
-    * [[:tarot notes]]: working notes from the patabotanical tarot design session
+    * [[:Tarot notes]]: working notes from the patabotanical tarot design session
-  * [[:arboreal identity]]: tutorial description
+  * [[:Arboreal Identity]]: tutorial description
-  * [[:project groworld kabk]]: research group's wiki pages
-    * [[Vegetal Culture Degustation]]: a recipe collection for a series of co-creation exercises
-==== Act Otherwise ====
+==== Workshops, seminars and other digressions ====
-  * notes from the [[:act otherwise]] workshop
+  * [[:Project groworld KABK]]: research group's wiki pages and experiments in Vegetal Culture
+    * [[Vegetal Culture Degustation]]: a recipe collection for a series of co-creation exercises
+  * notes from the [[:Act Otherwise]] workshop
   * https://parn.posterous.com/
-==== DIY Biology, Plant Roots Experiments, and Plant Neurobiology ====
+==== Background research on DIY Biology and Plant Neurobiology ====
-  * [[:plant roots experiment]]
   * [[:DIY biology]]
   * [[:plant neurobiology]]
   * [[:open access journals list]]
   * [[:parn_project_lionel]]
+  * [[:plant roots experiment]]
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   * [[:alchemical notes]]
   * [[:project groworld]]
+  * [[:groworld_vegetal_culture]]
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