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Thematics

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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.

An Anarchive

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A series of experimental publications unearthing things with generative potential for the here-and-now and the yet-to-come. The Anarchive weaves together a curated selection of stories, tools, artworks, and experiences across FoAM's network, suggesting ways to grow your own worlds.

Crafting thresholds

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How resistance turns to information when templates, rooms, and routines hold a correction window open.

Weave, code, hammer

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Developed through studio visits with Then Try This in Sheffield and Cornwall last autumn, three new texts from FoAM's Anarchive trace technology's minor paths and forgotten possibilities.

Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX)

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The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) is an emergent research entity working with the potential of transformative experiments across culture, art and business.

Afterimages, Counterimages and Organic Abstraction

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Organic Abstraction

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A deconstructed photobook, an exhibition-in-a-box.

Arka Kinari

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Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a multimedia performance staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship. Using live music and cinematic visuals Arka Kinari imagines life after the carbon economy, resilience to climate change, and re-engagement with our last great commons—the sea.

Patterns and Gestures

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Much as a single tile, gesture or syllable can transform a pattern, small interventions in technological systems can cascade into radically different futures.

Mapping the silver route

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A canvas of possibilities from the 'silver route', expanding surface where gathered fragments challenge how digital worlds are built and bound.

Pliable Architectures

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As we approach peak thermal expansion at summer solstice, we're releasing a cluster of texts on pliable architectures, that themselves breathe and expand.

Certainty Ltd.

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Certainty Ltd. offers support for personal and organisational transitions, including strategic unplanning, critical uncertainty diagnostics, VUCA therapy, ambient foresight, and bespoke situational awareness.

FRICTIONS

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Centering the everyday work of administration

A Wabi-sabi Guide

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Introduction to FoAM's edited reader on weathering transience.

Wabi-sabi: Weathering Transience

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An edited reader which dwells with the transient, incomplete, and unnoticed.

Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails

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In Which a Profusion of Words is Distilled into Six Evanescent Fragrances

The Infinite Table

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A deck of cards for growing worlds at the scale of the dinner table.

Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty

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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.

Green: Multispecies Entanglings

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Concerning reciprocal relations with the living world; the plants, animals, landscapes, and other beings with whom we share this planet.