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Christina Stadlbauer participates in Sustainable Creative Cities, a workshop on the role of the arts in globalised urban context.

"Invited experts will address the roles of artists and creative workers in the evolution of globalised cities across Asia and Europe, assessing how an “artistic mode of knowing” can contribute to a transition from creative cities to sustainable creative cities. The aim is to facilitate the emergence of local urban processes of social change in partnerships between artists, cultural practitioners and communities, as opposed to top-down urban planning."

Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney participated at the meeting of Young Global Leaders (YGL) & the the Annual Meeting of the New Champions on "Driving Growth through Sustainability". Maja is involved in the design of the opening session of the YGL meeting, leads a discussion on the topic of Open Innovation: Accelerating Sustainable Growth, moderates a session on the Role of art in Asian society with Pooja Sood and leads a conversation with Chinese Designer Xiao Yong.

http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Young%20Global%20Leaders/index.htm

Three Brussels art labs invite you in Koolmijnenkaai 30-34. OKNO opens their rooftop garden and Open Greens-project to all. You can taste urban honey and drinks made of plants from the garden. You can nibble on FoAM's detoxifying treats to help you fight urban afflictions, spiced up with plants from the Kanal area. Q-O2 invites the sound artist Pierre Berthet for a concert using waterdrops as an instrument.

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."

FoAM is present as one of four Belgian artistic laboratories at the E-Culture Fair in Dortmund.

More: http://www.eculturefair2010.eu/

In collaboration with FoAM, Recyclart is organising a seed-bombing workshop.

Analogous to kneading of dough, the participants learn how to create a fertile paste including thousands of seeds (herbs, bushes, shrubs & ground covers), that can work together to form a self-sustaining plant guild. Recyclart invites people of all ages to discover the urban ecologists in themselves.

The workshop will be repeated on the 16th of July and 5th of August.

More information: http://www.recyclart.be/content/view/14153/1/lang,en/
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As a part of our AEGIS residency programme (http://x4.fo.am/aegis), Desire Machine Collective will spend some time at FoAM in Brussels this summer. This Bite Size Lecture will include a presentation of their work, spiced up with a taste of Assamese cuisine.

http://www.desiremachinecollective.net/

Image by Eisa Jocson & Angelo Vermeulen

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/13649599/

http://longnow.org/

Flesh, Steel and Codecs
Eisa Jocson & Angelo Vermeulen

During this research gathering Eisa Jocson and Angelo Vermeulen talk about recent work in which they explore notions of the body and its relation to space and technology.

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Anna Maria Orru talks about food & urban resilience over a locally sourced lunch.

About Foodprints:
‘Foodprints’ explores how the discipline of biomimicry can promote urban food resilience and opportunities for biodiversity to flourish in urban developments.

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/13257147/?from=list&offse...

http://longnow.org/

Klorofil, OKNO and FoAM work together on a seedballing workshop in Brussels, as a part of the Micronomics Festival.

Since 2006, City Mine(d) devote themselves to the issue of economic paradoxes in Brussels. Under the banner Micronomics, they look for answers at the micro scale. They have brought together a wealth of micro-initiatives, who are actively building an urban micro-economy that is fair to those who take part in it and that is at the heart of the way our cities are shaped.

Luminous Green 2010 is a retreat about resilience; about a human world, that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and most importantly – living in a fertile symbiosis with the planet. The retreat offers an exceptional occasion, a place where to learn about and from each other. In the process, the participants will attempt to jointly explore questions related to the theme of the retreat: resilience. What would a resilient human world be like? How do you experience resilience in your life? How do you encourage it in yourself and others?