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   * bioluddites connect urban and rural populations, city dwellers to the living environments around them - they take people out of the architecture of the modern space
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+**Other reflections**
   * Displays of food tend to be used as verification of authenticity (making dumplings in the window, cutting sashimi in front of customers…) - implying that there might be a lack of trust between the service provider and the customer. Today a lot of the trust issues have been transferred to brands and trademarks, initially set-up as guarantees of quality, now more of a social proof of status (except for eco-certificates). An example where the display goes against quality, but stands for a principle (halal): the Australian sheep are shipped alive to the middle east, only so the local butchers can kill them in the 'proper' way. There is no trust in the Australian butchers to do it properly, even if that means that the meat will be of lower quality due to the animal conditions from the long transport. In the bioluddite context, this might mean exposing or visualising otherwise invisible parts of the biotechnological process (e.g. ritually displaying all ingredients of an inoculation). The aesthetics of the display is important to a bioluddite: it might be something in between a chinese medicine shop and a bio-lab. The question about displays and bioluddism is: how do you verify something for yourself without knowing how to 'do biotechnology'?
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+=====Session IV: Notes 20140410=====
+Selecting relevant themes from [[:/future_fabulators/food_scenarios]] to chart bioluddites' biotechnology sphere
+Planning the research gathering
+== Bioluddite Menu ==
+  * Wild food sushi
+  * Pickled garlic and nuts
+  * Steamed artichoke flower with jerusalem artichoke dip
+  * Potato peel chips with truffle oil
+  * Mock meat meal on a stick
+  * Raw chocolate snuff
+Drinks:
+  * Water kefir
+  * Sweet basil water
+  * Herbal teas
+  * Cube cola
+  * Feral trade coffee
+  * Local micro-brewed beer (perhaps [[http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brussels-beer-project-dark-sister/248127/|Dark Sister]] or [[http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/de-la-senne-taras-boulba/56185/|Taras Boulba]] or...)
+  * Home made absinth for the brave
+== Dress code ==
+What would a bioluddite dandy look like?
+== Flow ==
+  * 5-6 Apero with informal discussions on health, food, diy biology...
+  * ~6 short presentation of the research by lisa, q&a
+  * introduction to the edible bioluddite map and tasting foods & drinks
+  * lisa propose a few bioluddite conundrums, discussion about how a bioluddite might react
+  * drinks, food and conversation in the 'waiting room' or around the table
+  * personal experience with a bioluddite coach (maja), for those who'd like to apply bioluddism in their daily life
+  * throughout: documentation (photo, video)
+== Planning ==
+Thursday
+  * make bioluddite's etiquette chart (or a biotech sphere chart) for the coaching room (Maja, Nik, Lisa)
+  * come up with at least 3 conundrums (Lisa)
+  * decide on spaces and materials for the research gathering (Rasa, Lisa)
+Friday
+  * Food shopping, preparation and presentation (Rasa, Maja)
+  * Prep presentation (Nik, Lisa)
+  * Documentation (Nik, Lisa, Rasa)
+  * Hosting (Lisa)
+  * Bioluddite enactment (FoAM)
+Saturday
+  * compile documentation and put stuff online, tidy up notes, link pages
+  * conclude waiting room scenario, write it up and possibly make a visual collage of it
+  * write a blog post
+  * visit Rasa's garden
+Sunday
+  * final wrap-up and departure
+=== Bioluddite conundrums ===
+  * what do you think [[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/why-the-climate-corporation-sold-itself-to-monsanto.html|Climate Corporation being sold to Monsanto]]?
+  * should [[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/06/18/asia%E2%80%99s-food-security-conundrum-more-apparent-real.html
+|biotechnology be used to feed]] the growing population in Asia?
+  * [[http://bit.ly/R5E3Qh|would you like to be told]] that you are very likely to develop an incurable disease within a few years? Should a doctor automatically give such information to a patient? Genetic screening has raised this issue by giving doctors the ability to diagnose genetically related (but still untreatable) disorders…
+  * should we use [[http://fringejoyride.com/2013/12/23/human-invasive-interactions/|invasive species as a resource]]?
+  * when asked about the amount of medical help one would choose in a dire situation, most doctors choose to die at home without medical help, arguing for a quality of life rather than quantity. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-choose-die How should that affect the rest of our seemingly obvious choices about survival? Are doctors role models?
+  * in 2012, Target the consumer store sent baby coupons to a teenage girl who had not told her parents she was pregnant http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml What's the role of companies in our seemingly private bodily changes?
+  * Is elaborate biomimicry biotechnology or is it just technology borrowing from biology?
+  * Pandas have very little effect on their habitat and are extremely expensive to maintain. in 2012 Canada spent $10million renting pandas from China during budget cuts elsewhere http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-08-27/why-i-hate-pandas-and-you-should-too. Pandas have little hope of breeding in the wild. Should we keep up with this fetishized animal’s lack of affordance to survive?
+  * Why do Cooking channels not making ppl cook more while smoking /drinking makes ppl more prone to smoke/drink?
+  * Is rewilding an aristocratic conservation crossing with fantasy themeparks that drives food-production to poorer countries? Should we support this luxurious attempt at a wilder aspiration? http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/latest-news/hill-farmers-hit-back-at-monbiot-over-rewilding-calls/61850.article
+  * Is recycling keeping the human population in a better balance with the environment or is it only a marketed loophole for the conscience?
+When to use biofuel and why?
+=== Bioluddite charter ===
+In the afternoon we distilled our notes and thoughts into the beginnings of a [[Bioluddite charter]] with the following sections, based on Chaordic principles (used for example [[http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/resources/chaordic_organisation.html|here]].
+  * Purpose/Preamble – That which identifies and binds the community together as worthy of commitment and personal effort. An unambiguous vision or concept of the future.
+  * Principles – The behavioural aspirations of the community. (...) Must have a high degree of ethical and moral content, which does not prescribe behaviour but guides it.
+  * Concept – A general view of the best possible institutional embodiment of purpose and principles. A general picture of the desired relationships.
+  * Structure – The specific anatomy of the organisation. The contract of rights and obligations between all members of the community.
+  * People – The initial members of the community and the leadership essential to effective initiation and evolution of the purpose, principles and structure.