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Encoding Matter

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?

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

Coalition & Infrastructure

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

Crafting thresholds

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

Weave, code, hammer

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.

Patterns and Gestures

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

Pliable Architectures

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

ekip Policy Lab: Keynote

Five thought experiments for innovation with(in) performing arts

Reinaerd: mapping early hominid dispersal

As part of Memory Code (exploring forms of encoding information that predate writing), this is an attempt to encode a very basic level of the historic spread of early hominids across the globe.

Mapping the silver route

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

Administrative Capacity Celebration Lunch

FRICTIONS Blog Post 0

FRICTIONS: Setting up shop

FRICTIONS: Setting up shop

Laut Loud with Tau' Riolo A'dendang (t o d)

Welcome to the first episode in the fourth season of (((Laut ~ Loud)))

Introducing Kanvas Mutiny

A New Life for the Old Sails of Arka Kinari

Waibao

On our voyage, every invitation is a ‘rezeki’, a blessing and material abundance.

East to West

In Arka Kinari's longest and final route through the Indonesian archipelago, this year's voyage follows the trade winds steadily from east to west, and includes neighboring islands outside of Indonesia's borders.

By the Means at Hand

Our work, Tumbleweed diaspora, has been included in ‘By the Means at Hand’, Vlatka Horvat’s project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

A Wabi-sabi Guide

Introduction to FoAM's edited reader on weathering transience.

Sulawesi Utara

The journey of Arka Kinari reaches the northern apex of Sulawesi Island, a place marked by extreme contrasts.

Aground

Opting for a historically significant but perilous route near Makassar, the vessel runs aground amid a complex network of reefs and islands.

FoAM in Design Decode

On cultivating transdisciplinary futures, and redefining human-nature relationships

#parepare

Arka Kinari: Travelogue II: Parepare, Sulawesi.

Makassar

Arka Kinari Travelogue I: Makassar, Sulawesi.

Rust & Dust

Arka Kinari: Preparations for Sailing in Bali

In the gloaming...

...amidst liquid shadows, the liminal shimmers. A mid-year soundtrack by Lowdjo.

A Crystal Guide

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

A Green Guide

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

Crimson Orange Daiquiri

The mind wanders, the dog brings wisdom, a sunset awakening. The crimson daiquiri.

Pattern Recognition / Spook Country / Zero History

Hip-Deep in the Thick Present #10. Cyberspace has everted.

Viridian & Virescent

An ode to viriditas, the greening energy of all life. Mixed by Lowdjo on spring equinox 2023年03月20日.