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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.

Encoding Matter

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Turning to the underside of worked form; on pattern, threshold, and what gets through. A new cluster from the Anarchive's Silver Reader.

What future for textiles?

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Looking back to look forward: photo essays from the Anarchive, re-imagining relationships between textiles, technology and biology.

Coalition & Infrastructure

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What if reimagining technology starts not with better tools, but with how we organise and gather?

About 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

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.

Organic Abstraction

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

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.

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.

Crafting thresholds

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

Spell Kit

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For Navigating Uncertainty