Thematics ๐ These five thematic journeys provide signposts amid diverse contents on this website, from the conviviality of the dinner table to the turbulent uncertainties of our current times.
A Crystal Guide ๐ Introduction to 'Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty', an edited reader for acting, relating, and hesitating in these uncertain times.
Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty ๐๏ธ An edited reader for acting, relating, and hesitating in uncertain times. Wading hip-deep in our thick present, contributors share stories, experiences, and techniques to seed new realities and grow your own worlds.
A Green Guide ๐ Marking this year's Earth Day with excerpts from 'Green: Multispecies Entanglings', a reader from FoAM's Anarchive.
Green: Multispecies Entanglings ๐๏ธ Concerning reciprocal relations with the living world; the plants, animals, landscapes, and other beings with whom we share this planet.
Anarchive ๐ The Anarchive looks at FoAMโs multi-decade existence from different vantage points, to unearth or revisit things that can have generative potential for the here-and-now and the yet-to-come.
Zoรถp & the practice of Zoรถnomy ๐ Zoรถp is an organisational model that allows organisations of many kinds to collaborate with nonhuman life.
Firebreak Banana Bread: An Edible Timeline ๐ This is a recipe for bread. A recipe is a form of time travel you can taste. The primary ingredients for this recipe are wheat, bananas, and treenuts. Each ingredient represents a way of eating and being: one each for yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Viridian & Virescent ๐ An ode to viriditas, the greening energy of all life. Mixed by Lowdjo on spring equinox 2023-03-20.
Calibrating Experiences of the Future ๐ Creating written or fabricated artefacts to communicate possible futures is probably the most fun part of working in the futures field. As the final step in a longer process, artefacts often offer the widest latitude to engage the intended audience.
Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails ๐ In Which a Profusion of Words is Distilled into Six Evanescent Fragrances
You down with O.P.P.? ๐ Hip-Deep in the Thick Present #8. Outside of glassmaking, to talk of a bottleneck is to talk of the point in a system where bandwidthโthe capacity of traffic which can be reliably passed through that pointโis restricted.
Experiential Dreamscapes ๐ One of the more powerful ideas when futuring is not around predicting what will happen, but imagining what might happen.
Recovering Experts ๐ Dave Griffiths and Maya Weeks discuss everything from transporting Raspberry Pis on Sonic Kayaks to reenvisioning citizen science as a way to distribute research skills beyond academia and affect local policy.
Seed Crystal ๐ An emerging soundtrack for FoAM's Anarchive, mixed by Lowdjo on winter solstice 2022-12-21
Gathered and Scattered ๐ On the remarkable possibilities for conviviality through screens and cameras, but also their limitations.
A Mutable Symbol ๐ The soap bubble is a floating, shimmering thin-filmed sphere of almost nothing, and yet it evokes the whole world and many other distant worlds beyond it.