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Toolquiz conference in Rogaland, Stavenger, Norway

Toolquiz aims at defining relevant public policies able to support the cultural sector as a key factor regarding the blossoming of knowledge based society based on a sustainable development of human capital.
Its objective is to developing, in each partner region, suitable strategies, policies and tools on the link between the cultural and creative sector, the knowledge-based economy and the employability, by the identification and exchange of good practices.

This experimental workshop will be about food, using team cooking as a way of building and improving the team dynamic.

Cooking together as a group is a great medium for team building and bonding, showing how co-operation and teamwork make for a more motivated, more efficient and high-performing team.
Find out more about yourself and others in this unique one-off foodie workshop that is designed to get your taste buds working and increase your appreciation of others' tastes, desires and needs using food as the medium.

Lina Kusaite and Andy Whittle

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".)

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

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/

Rasa Alksnyte is one of the participants at the Design for Design event at Toegepast: Fit to boost.

images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157625132513974/

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."

NEM SANDPIT
Art, design and technology for the Digital Agenda
Co-sponsored by BBC and Technicolour
Facilitated by Maja Kuzmanovic, FoAM, Belgium

According to the Digital Agenda, “Europe must invest more in R&D and ensure that our best ideas reach the market.” In this context, how can collaboration between art, design and technology contribute to creating the best ideas, while also tackling societal challenges? What can we do together to foster open innovation and innovation eco-systems, as well as engaging ICT with pressing environmental issues?

Info: http://nem-summit.eu

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

CITIES Foundation together with the Municipality of Amsterdam, is co-organizing an exhibition/workshop about Urban Agriculture. This event will take place during the Week of Sustainability, a 9 days program made by the city of Amsterdam to support and promote sustainable projects in the city.

CITIES, a platform for urban research based in Amsterdam, is currently researching and promoting alternative approaches for the development of temporary urban agriculture practice. The exhibition is part of the 'Farming the City' project.

Field-testing the Boskoi app and mapping the terrain of the demolished Calve (peanut-butter and mayonnaise) factory, during the Anarchitecture festival. http://www.levenaanhetspoor.nl/projecten-aan-het-spoor/anarchitecture

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."