Foam

FoAM is a Brussels-based group of designers, scientists, cooks, artists, engineers and gardeners who share an interest in taking knowledge from their respective areas of expertise and applying it in new public contexts. FoAM was founded by Maja Kuzmanovic in 2000 as a cultural research department in Starlab.In 2001, FoAM became an independent, distributed entity with cells in Brussels and Amsterdam.Since that time, the core group of this de facto new-media think tank has included members from Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, Croatia, Lithuania, the UK, and Sweden; its larger network has attracted people from around the world. Since 2004 FoAM has positioned itself as the only Flemish "Hybrid Reality Lab," with a primary focus on the field of hybrid reality (technologies, media and materials entangling the physical and the digital).