FoAM - research gathering

Research Gathering with Simone Poutnik

christina — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:01:22 +0000

Start: 2011-08-11 19:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2011-08-11 21:00 Europe/Brussels

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.

Kufunda has achieved resilience in a time of total systems collapse by choosing a particular approach. They engage in a wide range of small local actions that give them the capacity to continuously adapt to an unpredictable and chaotic world.
Simone will share pictures, stories and artifacts to give a taste of the rich learning she took from Kufunda.

Some background info for the curious:
on resilients:
http://x4.fo.am/resilients

on Kufunda:
http://kufunda.org/
http://www.walkoutwalkon.net/zimbabwe/
on Zimbabwe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe

Augmented Ecology meetup #04

theun — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:50:00 +0000

Start: 2011-03-17 19:30 GMT+2

End: 2011-03-17 20:30 GMT+2

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.

http://www.meetup.com/augmentedecology/events/16552509/

Research Gathering with Kiran Gangadharan - Decode

christina — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:52:00 +0000

Start: 2011-03-04 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2011-03-04 20:00 Europe/Brussels

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.

Movementors functions as a question of science, engineering and design perspective where mathematical expressions from plants are decoded. It explores the world of spiral dynamics where the spirograph -an old school instrument- leads the inspiration. He relates growth of plants with an unseen mystery of movement: movement as a performance in itself. The comparison of the complex situations from static/dynamic, organic/inorganic, form/function, observer/observed and self/other brings new aesthetics to movement and transforms the space in itself. Two specific topics are explored in detail: generative growth of Spirograph mirrored in dance movements and the three dimensional Spiral movements.

The presentation will conclude with a light Indian (Kerala) Feast.

More on Kiran Ganghadaran's residency - http://x4.fo.am/residency_kiran

This residency is part of FoAm's Asia-Europe exchange program.

See also Christina Stadlbauer and Bartaku's residency at periferry 1.0 (Guwahati, India): http://www.fo.am/periferry

images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157626325858182/

Illuminating St. Catharina

christina — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:27:18 +0000

Start: 2010-11-22 10:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-11-22 13:59 Europe/Brussels

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

Toegepast Research Gathering

maja — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:30:06 +0000

Start: 2010-10-08 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-10-08 21:00 Europe/Brussels

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

Research gatherings are designed for creative practitioners to discuss their works in progress, research questions & creative processes in a casual and interactive setting. There are no formal speeches or presentations, but instead the guests are invited to share brief remarks, research questions & conceptual sketches to set the scene, followed by a conversation between the guests & the audience. The goal of Research Gatherings is to receive valuable feedback early in a creative process, in an open & non-judgmental manner. For this session an additional goal has been included – to bring together two guests from different fields & cultures, who explore interaction between tradition & innovation from different perspectives.

The main question of the Toegepast Research Gathering is "What can we learn from interaction between traditional creative disciplines (such as crafts or dance) and innovation, to make our works more sustainable?" To help answer this question, the guests present their works in progress, followed by a moderated conversation between the guests & the audience, 'lubricated' with especially designed food & drinks.

In other words, the purpose of this session is to understand each other's creative process and expected results, hearing from two Syrian artists & technologists and a Belgian designer both working on the cusp between tradition & innovation, by getting an insight into their respective perspectives & experience.

In addition to the Research Gathering, FoAM is present at the Toegepast: Fit to Boost! with a groWorld installation, as well as in the design of the food programme for "By Design for Design" and "Dream team dinners".

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lina — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:05:39 +0000

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lina — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:05:20 +0000

Flesh, Steel and Codecs Visual

maja — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:28:37 +0000

Image by Eisa Jocson & Angelo Vermeulen

Research Gathering on Flesh, Steel and Codecs

maja — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:36:46 +0000

Start: 2010-06-18 19:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-06-18 21:00 Europe/Brussels

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.

Visual

Eisa Jocson presents 'Stainless Borders: The Deconstruction of Architectures of Control', a current project that merges the urban landscape and pole dancing. The project explores and maps the relationship between the human body and the urban landscape through movement defined by a pole dance vocabulary. 'Stainless Borders’ started in Manila, and has now expanded to Brussels and Sint-Niklaas. It is an alternative practice that tries to challenge perspectives towards how our bodies move within the urban landscape. Eisa Jocson is artist in residence at FoAM from May till June 2010, and is currently developing an experimental video project at SoundImageCulture in Brussels.

http://eisajocson.posterous.com

In his presentation Angelo Vermeulen talks about the latest developments in his ongoing 'Corrupted C#n#m#' project. 'Corrupted C#n#m#' is an amorphous, process-oriented art project which explores new and old media through biological and digital experimentation. Essentially, the project debunks the myth of the immateriality of digital media. For the Canvascollectie Vermeulen teamed up with jewelry designer Walter Bresseleers to create data-corrupting cyber cockroaches. The armor of these hybrid creatures contains electronics that can disrupt digital data streams. Bresseleers will briefly elucidate the potential role of silver-smithing in media arts.

http://www.angelovermeulen.net

Research Gathering with Foodprints

maja — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:24:58 +0000

Start: 2010-06-04 12:30 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-06-04 13:30 Europe/Brussels

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.

There is an inherent relationship between the city and how food arrives on our plates. Foodprints investigates how to create resilient cities that mimic nature’s ecosystems, where all the elements are interactive, abundant in feed-back loops, responsive, engaging, conducive to life, and always looking to reach the best use of resources. The goal of Foodprints will be to bring forward a food culture, inspired by these ecosystems, through creation of a biologically-centered toolkit, to be applied on the urban visions for Norra Djurgarden area of Stockholm. By creating such a tool, the project aims to be long term, continuous and inviting, applicable to other future schemes. Foodprints threads together scientific, futuristic, artistic and sensory perspectives to review our urban ecology and the way we feed ourselves. Food will become our communication device, and we will present our explorations in a ‘maltid’ designed around the senses and experience.

More: http://locust.fo.am/foodprints/

About Anna Maria:
Anna Maria Orru is the creator of SCENE-thinking, and an agent inspiring Biomimicry through initiatives such as the Bioinspired forum. She is a registered architect and a research curator who has worked with a number of catalysts including Arup, Grimshaw, Shigeru Ban and Exploration Architecture. The foundation of her work is embedded in research, future scenario building, biomimicry and systems thinking, thus providing an innovative approach in the field of sustainable design, using a multi-disciplinary ‘bridge-building’ collaborative approach.

More: http://www.annamariaorru.com

Research Gathering with Bartaku & Christina - Periferry

maja — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:08:30 +0000

Start: 2010-04-02 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-04-02 21:00 Europe/Brussels

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

Intensive investigations on herbal medicine, water and the regional cuisine were conducted in the N-E-Indian state of Assam. The experimental research, a day to day quest, became the core of a residency at periferry - governmental, non-functional ferry for crossing the Brahmaputra and unique, interdisciplinary platform for artists and similar breeds. Numerous arranged and accidental encounters with local wells of knowledge, adventurous purchasing at Ulan and Pan Bazaar, and visits of nurseries and botanical gardens resulted in a peripheral archive of medicinal plants cum interactive lunch preparations - and moving images.

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Bartaku: A SLOW FLOW
A residency at periferry 1.0, fused by:

The ferry, a redundant icon of the fossil fuel era, the Brahmaputra river with its highly energetic currents, fed by the mighty mountains up North; the growing multi-tribal city of Guwahati where the wild edible power plants rich soil is eaten by concrete buildings; the Indian Institute of Technology, exclusive residence of the chosen ones; and especially, the giraffe of the Zoo-cum-Botanical garden. A residency that evolved into the elaboration of PhoEf*-narratives, embodied by micro-interventions, a workshop and an essay.

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About Periferry 1.0

"The "Periferry1.0 " project is an alternative space that works as an incubator for transforming cultural productions. The project is designed to link together the cultural energies of the Northeast India with other parts of South and Southeast Asia and the world. It is a laboratory for people engaged in hybrid practices, people whose knowledge tends to fall through gaps between disciplines, people who thrive in the interstitial spaces between art, culture and science, technology and ecology.
The project focuses on the creation of a network space for negotiating the challenge of contemporary cultural production. It is located on a ferry on river Brahmaputra"

www.periferry.in

* This residency is a part of PhoEf: The Undisclosed Poésis of the Photovoltaic Effect - a research project on the relation between light power and electricity at the interstices of arts, science and technology. http://libarynth.org/luminous/phoef

The residency is included in FoAM's 2010 Euro-Asian residency programme, supported by the Flemish Authorities.

Research Gathering with Alex, Ali and Luka

maja — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:38:40 +0000

Start: 2010-02-12 16:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-02-12 20:00 Europe/Brussels

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

cyberpunk covers: montage I

maja — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:59:07 +0000

cyberpunk covers: montage

maja — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:21:28 +0000

200603 Research gathering with Alkan Chipperfield

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:01:22 +0000

Start: 2006-03-31 12:00 Europe/Brussels

The first research gathering at FoAM, with Alkan Chipperfield, our resident anthropologist reporting on his fieldwork.

Notes: http://libarynth.org/resgat200603