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Urban Edibles Mapping wild-food-sources in Amsterdam > And building a mobile foraging phone app > augmented_foraging Foraging Maps: * * * * * * * Helsinki * Pontypridd * Philadelphia map * …

Mathematickal Arts “To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space. A bit of string affords the dimensional latitude that is unique among the entities. For an uncomplicated strand is a palpable object that, for all practical purposes, possesses one dimension only. If we move a single strand out of the plane, interlacing at will, actual objects of beauty result in what is practically two dimensions; and if we choose to direct our strand out of this plane, another dimensi…

Future preparedness This Future Preparedness case study researches how to increase individual, group and community resilience by cultivating behaviours that allow us to be prepared for any possible future. It combines collecting of historical examples of resilient social and cultural structures with age-old side-shows, anachronistic re-enactments and futurist scenarios. The public aspect of the case study includes prehearsals or future reenactments, drawing on improvisation, scenario planning, …

workshops * electromagnetickal arts 2010 * mathematickal arts 2011

[movie-pinchedknot.gif] also >> KnotPlot see also mathematickal_arts_2011

Epizoic Media For millennia humans have used oxen and horses to move our tools. In the digital age the group of animals carrying tools is rapidly expanding. Non-humans are fitted with wearable technology, in past decades it has predominantly been GPS, but what happens when they start carrying rich mobile media like we do?

nodes * Meme and Variation * Evolutionary Robotics * Artificial Life * Epizoic Media * Genetic Data * Biological Modelling * Biodiversity * Biosynthesis * PCR (aka Polymerase Chain Reaction) * BioArt * Plant Biology * Synthetic Biology (and BioTechnology) * Quorum Sensing * category gardens * Operator_Hypothesis

Plant Guilds A full permaculture guild consists of 7 layers (from Permaculture Guilds: A Primer) * canopy layer (only for larger gardens, not on roofs, balconies, etc.) * low tree layer * shrub layer * herbaceous layer * rhizosphere * soil surface (ground cover) * vertical layer (climbers and vines)

Concerning the indiscriminate use of the ampersand The ampersand should be avoided in body copy. It disrupts the flow of the text and produces an unsightly type colour. Its use in this manner is pleasantly absent in any professionally written and designed publication or correspondence. Needless to say, indiscriminately mixing ”&” with “and” is an even worse offence.

Splinterfields: Electromagnetickal Arts part of splinterfields * *

Graflex Speed Graphic “Produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York, the Speed Graphic is commonly called the most famous press camera. Although the first Speed Graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production of later versions continued until 1973”

FoAM newsletter summer 02011 Warm greetings from FoAM. As our cities begin emptying out for the imminent summer holidays, it is time for a seasonal update about our activities at FoAM in Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm & Helsinki. Aside from news on FoAM’s favourite topics - plants, food & technology, we’d like to spread the word about two new European projects (Resilients & PARN), proclaim Boskoi’s recent acclaim, report on a few playful events and several quietly germinating activities.

FoAM Newsletters issues as text/html ) * Foam Newsletter 2003 * Foam Newsletter 2004 * FoAM Newsletter Summer 2011 issues as pdf for screen * [848kb] * [1072kb]

Critical Questions for Research Proposals As director of ARPA in the 1970’s George H. Heilmeier developed a set of questions that he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. He referred to them as the “Heilmeier Catechism”. These questions still survive at DARPA and provide high level guidance for what information a proposal should provide. It's important to answer these questions for any individual research project, both for yourself and for communicating to others what…

How can you become involved with FoAM? * Do FoAM's themes, methods or inspirations resonate with you & you'd like to share your own approaches, thoughts or projects? You could present at one of our Bite Size Lectures or Symposia. * Do you have a research idea or project in progress that could benefit from a discussion with people from different disciplines and cultures? You could join the conversations at a Research Gathering or the Long Now Meetup.

groWorld: Borrowed Scenery draft 200904: towards pataphores of plant guilds... (at the moment prosaic descriptions based on metaphores and archetypes, not very 'pata' yet). beginnings of a taxonomy of plant characters for the Jiejing /Borrowed Scenery Alternate Reality Narrative)

Production Landscapes: ‘Grow your own’ Workshop flow notes Focus: The focus of our workshop is to investigate creative methodology for strengthening our relationship with what we eat, and how we grow food in the city? What we grow? The seminar and workshop will be in three parts; intro, workshop and conclusions.

Most recent → Worklab 'Temporary photoElectric Digestopians' [TpED #6] At DMY Design Festival Berlin Berlin [Ger], part of 'MakerLab Finland' (Pixelache), June 2,3; 2011. Next TpED Worklab as part of 'Tickling Tongues', interwoven nodes of PhoEf presented at Halikonlahti Art Festival, Salo (FIN), Sept. 10-12 2011