event

//Pixelache - groWorld Bazaar, Helsinki, March 10 to 13, 2011

During 4 days in March 2011(10/03 – 13/03) FoAM presented a groWorld
Bazaar at Pixelache festival, using the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry)as a common connection to bring together game designers, gardeners,electronics experimenters and urban foragers with a set of hands-on-workshops, discussions and experiments.

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/03/groworld-bazaar-pixelache/
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/programme/groworld-bazaar...

March 10th

First Meetup on Augmented Ecology
FoAM Amsterdam is initiating the Institute for Augmented Ecology (IforAE). This is a continuation of the work on Boskoi (an Android mobile foraging application, which is in development).

IforAE aims to function as a platform for discussion about media hooking onto the ecosphere and to find out what Augmented Ecology actually could be before it actually gets to be defined and/or narrowed down by convention.

more info at
http://www.meetup.com/augmentedecology/

Concentrations and Temporary photoElectric Digestopians - Tuesday, 18th of January 2011:
The FoAM team works on the impact of a possible disaster scenario, where getting enough nutrients requires resilient practices. During the last wars or other economically stressful situations, many governments paid scientists to come up with highly concentrated products to remedy certain nutrition deficits and to provide energy to the body.
For Burning Ice, FoAM will prepare a vegetable concentrate, in the course of an entire day. The product, rich in anti-oxydants will be

The January Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Thursday 13 January 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium.

We'll be watching Jesse Schell's talk on the gamification of society, entitled "Visions of the Gamepocalypse". This is one of the most thought-provoking and entertaining talks I've encountered in the SALT series. Whether you're a hard-core gamer or crypto-Luddite bookworm, this talk is sure to make you think about the direction we're heading.

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.

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

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

In this project Wietske Maas explores the potential urban wild food sources of Amsterdam-Noord. FoAM will be participating in the foraging with Boskoi the foraging application for mobile phone. An important part of the meal will be the harvested garden snails that are on show at the Mediamatic snailfarm on Vijzelstraat.

http://www.mediamatic.net/page/162673/en

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/

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."