The central focus of the PARN project was 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.”

Parn Book can be viewed online, or ordered through info [at] timesup.org

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 the individual research residencies of Martin Howse, Heath Bunting, Lionel Billiet, Imogen Semmler and Cat Jones.

• Borrowed Scenery Cultivating an Alternate Reality: an article about the alternate reality narrative
• Borrowed Scenery ARN: credits and notes from the ARN
• Gent Plant People: Imogen Semmler's conversations with plant lovers and gardeners in Gent
• Project overview on the FoAM website: http://fo.am/borrowed-scenery
• Photos: Collection of images on Flickr
• Videos: Collection of shorts
• Borrowed Scenery online: Zizim, Aniziz, Garginz and Dilzio

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
• Tarot Tutorial
  • Tarot notes: working notes from the patabotanical tarot design session
• Arboreal Identity: tutorial description

• 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/

• DIY biology
• plant neurobiology
• open_access_journals
• Parn project Lionel
• plant roots experiment

• Compendium of Symbolic And Ritual Plants in Europe
• Terence McKenna
• alchemical notes
• project groworld
• GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture
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