Where should we be, what should we do?

Jennifer Leonard and Sarah Rich on 'What happens when green becomes just a color again, instead of a buzzword?'. New York & LA, USA. http://www.tomorrowunlimited.com/events/thecreatorsseries/2007/headings/35/sustaining-change

Research Gathering on Food Systems, Photovoltaics, Number Spaces and Tsunami Pants. With Kate Rich, Steven Pickles, Theun Karelse, Bart Vandeput, Maki Ueda and others. Brussels, Belgium http://fo.am/events/

Presentations by Suprabha Seshan, representing her team of 'barefoot ecologists' from Kerala India, Dutch designer Maria Blaisse. Amsterdam, The Netherlands and the two foamies - Cocky Eek and Maja Kuzmanovic

A workshop/conference organised by Time's Up, on complexity, digital physics, information ecologies and systems thinking. Linz, Austria. http://www.timesup.org/laboratory/DataEcologies/

This two-day workshop, on the theme of “Metabolic Network”, brings together five researchers working in the area of electronic sensing in art and design, with a special focus on textiles and architectural-scale applications. The network will be a large installation made from a field of suspended fibers that have different properties: such as elasticity, conductivity, dissolvability, or luminosity. By joining the fibers together, a field of possibilities open up and patterns within the field emerge. The use of sensors and actuators, both electronic and mechanical, will provide dynamic and responsive features in the network. The result will be a metabolic network that emerges, acts and self-destructs over the course of the two-day period. http://textilefutures.co.uk/exchange/bin/view/TextileFutures/ResearchWorkshops

To kick-off the new series of .x-med-k. workshops, FoAM invites people skilled in making 'things', hardware and software, to join us in constructing a 'personal fabricator'. FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium.

http://www.xmedk.be

with the The Textile Futures Research Group and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. ICA, London, UK. http://mag.tfrg.org.uk/node/43

research gathering with Sanjeev Shankar and Olu Vandenbussche. FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium.

Conference on Challenging Art and Science. Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.mutamorphosis.org/

On food and coding. Demystifying the production, distribution, presentation and consumption of food in a degustation dinner, with matched artists, including Kate Rich, Stevie Wishart, Femke Snelting, Alok Nandi and others. Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, Brussels, Belgium.