FoAM - Earth

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Timeframe: 2017 -

FoAM Earth is a nomadic entity of the FoAM network, exploring futurecrafting as a way of re-enchanting the present. True to FoAM’s motto "grow your own worlds", we create propositions, immersive situations and (peak) experiences. As an act of resistance against dystopian fears of uncertainty, we cultivate kinship networks and circumstances for conviviality and collaboration, while exploring animist approaches to time, attunement and interconnectedness as transformative practices for contemporary techno-materialist culture. Our works and ways of working invoke new worlds, summon echoes of voices otherwise unheard to entice collective imagination and solidarity.

In order to align the work itself with our ways of living and working, FoAM Earth experiments with distributed forms of financing, administration and sharing infrastructure, while navigating between (post-capitalist) open-resource ethics and mainstream economic realities.

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Plotting a path

Reflecting on the pandemic as a transitional process, including phases of separation, liminality and re-integration.

As systems crumble...

Ever since the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, I've got border issues. When the borders began closing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic I had a strong sense of déjà vu. Will the pandemic become yet another catalyst for violence and fragmentation? Just another reason to solidify borders and create distance from the other, the foreign, the uncanny and the unknown?

Post Glacial Rebound

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

About Ibex

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

dust & shadow 12"

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

Arka Kinari

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.

Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails

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

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.

The Infinite Table

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

Superject

Superject is a card game grounded in the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It's a tool for questioning, prototyping, discussing, and feeling the world anew.

Certainty Ltd.

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

Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality

A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.

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?

"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...

Anarchive

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.

A Wabi-sabi Guide

Introduction to FoAM's edited reader on weathering transience.

Green: Multispecies Entanglings

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

A Green Guide

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

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.

Resonances

Resonances is a series of sonic propositions. Listening to the sounds of the Earth unfolding at different timescales. Attuning to matter in its myriad forms and flows. Paying attention to a multitude of voices, omnipresent but often too quiet to notice amidst the noise of human activity.

A Crystal Guide

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

Wabi-sabi: Weathering Transience

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

Will this burn down my house?

Tracing our paths in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic led us to challenge what or where is considered 'home', and what our homes could become.