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"Complexity, interconnectivity and sustainability are emerging as the dominant new realities of the 21st century."

http://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-new-champions-2011

Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney participate at the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders' Summit and Annual Meeting of New Champions in Dalian, China. Maja is a panelist at the opening panel of the YGL summit - "Protecting the Asset" on the 12th of September at 09:30 and she moderates a session on "Building Bridges with Brushstrokes", with Drue Kataoka on the 16th of September at 14:15.

During the Days of Sustainability (10-14 October 2011), the Flemish Government invites FoAM to host a debate lunch about the future of food - Voedsel 2.0.

The format of this "open sauce world cafe lunch", is an exploration of a facilitated discussion paired with the open sauce concept.
After an introductory talk by Maja Kuzmanovich on alternative food, a three course menu will be served to the participants. The dishes are created to match the discussions, using taste, texture, scent, temperature and colour to encourage the conversations.

Long Now Meetup and Resilients Salon

Long Now Meetup and Resilients salon

Tales from Uncivilisation - Dark Mountain Festival [1] and the Annual Meeting of the New Champions [2]. A presentation of two new projects: Resilients [3] and Time Buoys [4]. Conversations about the future of the Long Now Brussels meetup and Resilients Salons.

[1] http://www.uncivilisation.co.uk/
[2] http://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-new-champions-2011
[3] http://x4.fo.am/resilients/
[4] http://timebuoys.org/

Simone is a journeyer of the Resilients Guild. Last year in October / November she spent 7 weeks at Kufunda Learning Village in Zimbabwe - a place whose mission is to inspire the co-creation of strong life affirming communities in Zimbabwe and beyond by demonstrating and sharing the necessary ideas, skills and practices that are required for community resilience and nourishment.

Rocketboat Day promises a blend of backyard naval architecture and rocket science.

Rocketboat Day 1 is to be a participatory event where people build little boats, power them with rocket engines and race them to see which one gets the furthest. The inaugural event will take place on a nice, calm bit of water somewhere in Brussels. Let's find out what happens when you attach a C6 model rocket engine to a boat made out of anything you can get your hands on. The cool breeze off the water will blow the sweet acrid smoke across your face like a lovers caress.

D plus one
“the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid”
Lecture Performance with Fanny Zaman

What do we observe?

The setting is the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. ECX is the current centre of control of the newly installed Ethiopian market system. Ethiopia today ranks n°5 in the world list of emerging countries by producing primary physical goods (commodities).

Stories, rumours and attitudes

Pop-up Park,

design your own park.

This festival is aimed at designing a public garden or park with local residents under guidance of 4 experts. The garden in question is located behind the Meester coupeur opleiding on one side and the Jan Evertsenstraat on the other side. (It is located at the same square as FoAM's edible garden.)

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The March Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Wednesday 23 March 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium. (Please note the scheduling change!)

We'll be checking out Rachel Sussman's Long Now talk entitled ?The World's Oldest Living Organisms?. Rachel Sussman is a photographer whose works have been showcased throughout Europe and North America. (Perhaps you've seen some of her work already.) Her project has carried her around the world to document ancient lifeforms.

In her 02010 talk at TED Global in Oxford she summarized her project thusly:

During this research gathering Kiran Gangadharan -who has an engineering and design background- will present a round-up of Project Decode. The gathering covers an outline of the project’s main goals and research approach through various studies, conceptual design and iterations and the collaboration with dancers and artists.

Kiran started his residency at FoAM on January 1st, 2011, continuing his research on 'growth'. The new node in his ongoing research is "Movementors", in which he relates to growth and form through the metaphor of movement.

LAYAR ecologies:

The corporate battle over SmartCities has shifted last December to a race to dominance over monitoring our ecosytems.
This second meetup of Augmented Ecology will be focussing on these recent developments with an overview of the fast changing whirlpool of artistic, scientific and corporate projects that collect data on our environment en ecosystems. Johannes will be showing his LAYAR based air quality network called MIMAQ.

More info:
http://www.meetup.com/augmentedecology/events/16177090/

RadioMUS-E – Lunch with Insects

On March 1st 2011, two school classes visit FoAM to broadcast their radio-programme and investigate edible insects.

In RADIOMUS-E children of elementary class develop and produce a radio-transmission based on the Flemish classic 'Erik of het klein insektenboek' by Godfried Bomans. Following two months of work with Elias Vervecken (bruitage) en Rebecca Lenaerts (theatre, radiostories), two classes from two Brussels' schools (De Wimpel, Elsene and St-Joris, Brussels), get a chance to meet each other on the 1st of March at FoAM.

The February Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Thursday 17 February 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium.

We live in an era of distant frontiers. The seas (spanning 71% of Earth's surface) might one day support permanent human settlements - but few take that distant possibility seriously. Recent exoplanet discoveries are tremendously exciting yet space remains, for all but the very few, almost unthinkable.