IforAE

The Institute for Augmented Ecology is a temporary office within FoAM that investigates some issues that have been simmering within groWorld. Its an exploration of the field of AE before it actually gets to be defined and/or narrowed down by convention. For now it looks like a one year research-period starting Jan 2011 focussed on how the tagosphere is connecting to the biosphere.

This research looks:

* to temporarily expand the focus on HPI and move beyond flora.
* to identify or sketch new perspectives, roles, opportunities and risks of AE and trans-species networks.
* work within a broad perspective which is transdisciplinary, transmedial and multisensory.
* to bring this discussion to a specialist and general audience and make unholy alliances.
* to look at how media and trans-species networks can help people become active stakeholders in the quality of their local ecosytem.

These aims will be refined further along the way.