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==== Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN) ====

The central focus of the PARN project is on creating, presenting and representing narratives in physical space. Storytelling is a fundamental human capacity and is widespread in a variety of cultural forms as well as being one of the ways in which, according to many researchers of learning and awareness, we make sense of the world as we experience and reflect it. As the acclaimed poet Simon Ortiz puts it: “there are no truths, only stories.” 

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FoAM’s role in PARN is to design the Borrowed Scenery alternate reality narrative, an emerging story-scape inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s creed “the ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” The creative research for Borrowed Scenery was conducted through a series of Alternate Reality Tutorials, a research group, as well as research residencies of Martin Howse, Heath Bunting, Lionel Billiet, Imogen Semmler and Cat Jones.

PARN is coordinated by Time’s Up (AT), in collaboration with FoAM (BE), Lighthouse (UK) and Blast Theory (UK). FoAM’s additional allies and advisers in PARN are Six to Start (UK), Foamlab (NL), Sinfonye (UK) and Tale of Tales (BE). With the support of the Culture Programme (2007–2013) of the European Union and the Flemish Authorities.
 


==== Borrowed Scenery ====

  * [[Borrowed Scenery Cultivating an Alternate Reality]] - article about the alternate reality narrative
  * [[Borrowed Scenery ARN]] - credits and notes from the ARN
  * [[:borrowed scenery]] - the gardening technique
  * [[:garginz]] - plant-related sources, various and other
  * [[:gent plant people]] - Imogen Semmler's conversations with plant lovers and gardeners in Gent
  * [[:borrowed scenery fieldwork]] - descriptions of fieldwork tasks
  * [[:borrowed scenery journeys]] - notes on possible user journeys
  * http://borrowed-scenery.net - online components of the ARN: Aniziz, Zizim, Dilzio and Garginz
  * http://fo.am/borrowed-scenery 

==== Alternate Reality Tutorials ====

FoAM's [[Alternate Reality Tutorials]], including:

  * [[Alternate Reality Games Tutorial]]: overview of the field
    * [[:ARG tutorial]]: notes from the tutorial
  * [[Approaching The Inexplicable]]: thoughts behind the Radio Mycelium and Silent Dialogues tutorials 
    * [[:Radio Mycelium]]: workshop notes
    * [[:Silent Dialogues notes]]: working notes
    * [[:mpeir]] device notes
  * [[The Story of Tarot|Tarot Tutorial]]
    * [[:Tarot notes]]: working notes from the patabotanical tarot design session 
  * [[:Arboreal Identity]]: tutorial description

==== Workshops, seminars and other digressions ====

  * [[:Project groworld KABK]]: research group's wiki pages and experiments in Vegetal Culture
    * [[Vegetal Culture Degustation]]: a recipe collection for a series of co-creation exercises
  * notes from the [[:Act Otherwise]] workshop
  * https://parn.posterous.com/


==== Background research on DIY Biology and Plant Neurobiology ====

  * [[:DIY biology]]
  * [[:plant neurobiology]]
  * [[:open access journals list]]
  * [[:parn_project_lionel]]
  * [[:plant roots experiment]]


==== See Also ====

  * //[[:compendium_of_symbolic_and_ritual_plants_in_europe|Compendium of Symbolic And Ritual Plants in Europe]]//
  * [[:Terence McKenna]] 
  * [[:alchemical notes]]
  * [[:project groworld]]
  * [[:groworld_vegetal_culture]]
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