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Crystal: Navigating Uncertainty

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

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

Post Glacial Rebound

A soundwalk to encourage intimate connections with the island of Seili in the Archipelago Sea.

Arka Kinari Logbook

A visual logbook documenting the maiden voyage of Arka Kinari between 2019 and 2021.

Life, life support and the afterlives of (im)possible worlds

Audiovisual adaptation of a lecture-performance by Maja Kuzmanović and Nik Gaffney at the Futures Brought To Life symposium.

5 Things with FoAM

RADMIN Reader 2020

A congregation of short texts emerging from the UK's first festival of Administration, RADMIN (2019)..

"From that historically brief quite opaque moment..."

Between 17th March 2020 and 17th May 2020 we found ourselves in isolation within the extended cityscape of Singapore. As inhabitants of what became known as "The Circuit Breaker" we watched and listened...

Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies

How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?

Some Lithic Attunement Exercises

Exploring the geological substrates of digital technology in a series of lithic attunement exercises.

The Art of Futuring

A brief introduction to Futures for artists and culture makers.

Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?

How can engineers, entrepreneurs and technopreneurs embrace complexity and uncertainty, in order to act in meaningful ways, whatever the future may bring?

Grey Sky Thinking

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

Organic Abstraction

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

Afterimages, Counterimages and Organic Abstraction

Wabi-sabi: Weathering Transience

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

Viriditas

Album by Stevie Wishart with music by St. Hildegard, performed by Synfonie.

Futures Brought To Life

Highlighting inspiring possibilities for action in emerging futures, this volume is edited by Time's Up to explore our understandings of being and doing futures.

Fieldguide to Machine Wilderness

Book collecting research of the Machine Wilderness artist-in-residency program in ARTIS Royal Zoo

Anarchive Soundscapes

A series of soundscapes to accompany FoAM's Anarchive, mixed by Lowdjo.

An Anarchive

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.

Rooted Hauntology Lab: Attempts at vegetal curation

A personal attempt of co-working with plants as ghosts and how this started to shape a curatorial practice that resists extractivism.

Een moeras is een taal

Een moeras is een taal (A swamp is a language) is a poetic exploration of an encounter between human bodies and the body of a swamp near Massiaru (Estonia).

the current - nightly build

nightly build is a tiny A7 sized photocopied zine that fits in the palm of your hand so you can always carry it with you.

Interview FoAM. Speculative Edu

How to use design to speculate about possible futures? Interview with FoAM's co-founders Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney for Speculative Edu.

Ars Vitae Volume 08

How can we take the time we need with the work and people we love without feeling chased?

Design and Futures

Design and Futures is a major collection of essays, manifestos, interviews and peer-reviewed articles, documenting 'design futures' discourse and practice around the world.

Making Things Physical

A cross-section of FoAM and Time’s Up’s work with physical narratives (PNs), which draw upon experiential futures and experience design.

Dust & Shadow Reader #2

The Dust & Shadow reader #2 explores attunement as a proposition for engaging with the world, Earth-bound environments and their inhabitants, in a continuously changing field of relationships.

dust & shadow 12"

A sonic exploration of the desert, condensed into 12" vinyl.

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