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.
Cross species social networks,
The forth AE-meetup takes closer look at the question: Which social media platforms will animals and plants be using? And the possibility of using modern game interfaces like Kinect for cross species interaction or animal studies.
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.
10 12-year olds visited FoAM Brussels, where FoAM people played with them and they applied FoAM practices on them.
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
Image by Eisa Jocson & Angelo Vermeulen
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.
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.
From December 2009 to February 2010, Christina Stadlbauer (Body Water) and Bartaku (A Slow Flow) were residents at the Periferry 1.0 project in Guwahati, North-East India.
They will share their findings and experiences during a Research Gathering at FoAM.
Christina Stadlbauer: BODY WATER
Every-day-medicine in every-day-life - tales from Himalaya's feet
Please join FoAM's first family in residence, Alex, Ali and Luka, for a farewell afternoon tea.
They will be presenting the prototype of their robotic au pair (Robaupair) and sharing some ideas on the creative possibilities of parenthood.
Summary of the residency findings: http://lib.fo.am/research_report_ali_alex
The first research gathering at FoAM, with Alkan Chipperfield, our resident anthropologist reporting on his fieldwork.
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