On deforming confoliations

We present a parabolic deformation of one-forms on compact, orientable, odd -dimensional manifolds. The flow produces contact forms from the class of i nitial conditions called "conductive confoliations". We give applications o f these techniques to new constructions of contact forms on products of con tact manifolds with surfaces. In particular, we produce contact forms on th e product of any three dimensional manifold with any surface.