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10 12-year olds visited FoAM Brussels, where FoAM people played with them and they applied FoAM practices on them.

Design the Future for (Art)Craft

Does craft have a future? Craft sounds old-fashioned, but is getting hip at the same time! Numerous initiatives put handmade design in the spotlight, young talents go for old techniques and traditions.

On the 8th of December, thriving cases shall inspire policy makers, education institutions, organisations and designers to reflect and discuss, in a cross over of cultural heritage, design, education and creative economies.

Delicious kitchen gems by FoAM will accompany the participants through the day and inspire through the taste buds.

Launch of CD/DVD of 'The Sound of Gesture', by Stevie Wishart.

Manual for Civilization

Sometimes in the course of human history civilizations suffer cataclysmic breakdown. When this occurs vital knowledge and skills may pass beyond recall. (For an interesting survey of collapsed civilizations see Jared Diamond's book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed".)

As autumn ripens, nature and its resources are slowly turning inwards, preparing for the seasonal rest.

This is a good time for various works in the city gardens - preparing plants and soil for the winter, harvesting the yield of the year and planning next steps for the coming spring.

Interference-free Foraging Mobility in Brussels
on Electromagnetism, Psychogeophysics and Urban Beekeeping

Electromagnetic fields can have adverse effects on living organisms - honeybees are especially sensitive.

Although urban environments provide beneficial habitats for bee colonies, the electromagnetic field concentrations can disturb the bees' orientation and communication capabilities. To assist city bees with this issue, participants can work on an interference free foraging map.

Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney participate at the Summit of Young Global Leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Photos from the YGL Summit in Tanzania:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yglvoices/sets/72157623866640355/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yglvoices/sets/72157623921880113

workshop organised by Constant

In the weekend of the 17th-19th of December we will look at the act of repairing. We focus on textile and clothing, looking how something is woven, stitched together, consisting of threads and layers, and how these structures break, wear and tear with a body inside.

The Friday afternoon from 14 to 17h Abla who works as a volunteer in the Vaartkapoen repair and retouche atelier (http://www.vaartkapoen.be/socecnaai.htm) will show us the work they do. She will also show a technique for repairing.

Launch of the long awaited Open Sauces book & the Open Sauces Cooking Club.

http://www.yourhost.is/en/nordichi-2010/w02-designing-robotic-artefacts....

Nik Gaffney talks about FoAM's views on animism & materialism in robotic design, in a workshop hosted by LIREC partner SICS.

FoAM presents groWorld at the 7th edition of SEAFair “The apparatus of life and death”. The fastival creatively responds to the evolution of society in the sphere of bio-politics, thereby visualizing of our possible futures. SEAFair 2010 conveys the story of artists, critics and theorists attempting to navigate through the maze of the newly constructed global bio-political apparatus, in a changing social matrix, in which the rules are just being set.

Pirate Party - Piratenpartij - Parti Pirate

http://pirateparty.be/

FoAM will host the Brussels meeting of The Long Now Foundation, whose aim is "to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."

http://www.meetup.com/longnowbrussels/calendar/14769810/

http://longnow.org/

Rasa Alksnyte is one of the participants at the Design for Design event at Toegepast: Fit to boost.

images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157625132513974/

FoAM holds a research gathering at the Design Vlaanderen Gallery, in collaboration with Toegepast: Fit to Boost! (Design Vlaanderen & Design Platform Limburg)

With:
Michaël Verheyden, Designer, Belgium
Rula Sayaf, Information Systems & Software Engineer, Syria

facilitated by Maja Kuzmanovic