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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.

Anarchive

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The Anarchive looks at FoAM’s 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.

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.

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.

FRICTIONS

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Centering the everyday work of administration

Grey Sky Thinking

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In IBEX, we exchange Blue Sky innovation for Grey Sky thinking: overcasting before forecasting.

Afterimages, Counterimages and Organic Abstraction

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Organic Abstraction

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Unbound and deconstructed photobook and instant exhibition.

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

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.

ekip Policy Lab: Keynote

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Five thought experiments for innovation with(in) performing arts

A Crystal Guide

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Introduction to 'Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty', an edited reader for acting, relating, and hesitating in these uncertain times.

The Infinite Table

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

A Green Guide

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Marking this year's Earth Day with excerpts from 'Green: Multispecies Entanglings', a reader from FoAM's Anarchive.

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.