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- | === feasability study for sustained sustenance: feral trade cafe at http === | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: |
- | ===== HTTP structure, business plan, financial model ===== | ||
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- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, overheads & PAYE. | ||
- | HTTP and Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | + | Feral Trade http:// |
- | | + | HTTP http://www.http.uk.net |
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- | HTTP compound is zoned a s mixed / live-work. | + | |
- | ===== CAFE MOTIVES, STRUCTURE & INFRASTRCTURE | + | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure |
- | Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. | + | * Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. |
- | HTTP is located in the back of beyond from the point of view of its visitors. | + | Practical |
- | Would like to give visitors to the exhibitions something more to chew on. | + | |
- | Sustenance and conviviality, | + | |
- | Elongate visit. | + | |
- | Useful service for local residents and studio occupants The neighbourhood | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London area of Haringey http:// |
- | it's a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer | + | |
- | interface than the gallery. More everyday. | + | |
- | Promoting an alternate economy and ecology. So many shops deal with just money. | + | 2. A service for local residents |
- | Promote free processes | + | |
- | capitalism. An economy based on other peoples' | + | |
- | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | + | |
- | * income scenarios | + | Concepts |
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although application for seed funding from ACE London agreed as ok. A feral trade project: kate to put in the application, Marc & Ruth to support. | + | http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes free |
+ | processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global capitalism - | ||
+ | so many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' | ||
+ | activities and how you get from A to B. | ||
+ | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
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+ | Economics((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.)) | ||
- | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss. | + | Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably. |
+ | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. | ||
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+ | feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | ||
+ | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort which excludes it from | ||
+ | basic market measures of success. The investment is in the network. | ||
- | * hrs of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | + | * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan |
- | | + | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM |
- | Average 15-20 visitors per weekend. Mainly they arrive | + | Average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving |
- | There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a | + | There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a |
- | detour to Costa Coffee. | + | detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. |
- | portuguese people in it. | + | Portuguese |
- | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | + | |
- | The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. | + | |
- | There are gaps between shows. In winter | + | |
- | trade cafe could occupy the gallery space. People would visit for the library, or for meetings. | + | |
- | Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. | + | |
- | | + | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. |
- | | + | The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. |
- | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | + | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library http:// |
- | In winter it could be a kiosk, menu devised for creating heat or utilising refrigeration. | + | Trade cafe could occupy the gallery space. People would visit for the library, or for meetings. |
+ | Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. | ||
+ | http: It would be a coup to overcome | ||
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+ | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | ||
* caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | ||
- | | + | When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. |
- | | + | Saturday |
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does fri+sat, sun there is a paid invigilator. | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
- | * roles for cafe: preparation, service, cash-taking, | + | Hazards: The main anticipated hazard is success, with too many customers impacting staffing. |
+ | At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | ||
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- | This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way furtherfield works as a group. | + | |
- | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of | + | |
- | lowered status, service as a portal | + | |
- | Stock management | + | **Service: |
- | | + | Service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel, |
+ | this kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any separate lowered status. [[householding]] | ||
+ | **Management: | ||
+ | probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | ||
* physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | ||
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+ | Initial investment for equipment, utensils, presentation media. | ||
+ | At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | ||
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- | Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | + | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area, although in terms of afternoon sun gets a total eclipse. HTTP to sound the landlord out on decking |
- | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | + | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye |
- | on the compound. | + | on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are |
+ | formally HTTP' | ||
- | | + | Liability would need to be thought through |
- | paid for with rent. Cafe could serve from here. | + | |
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* publicity | * publicity | ||
- | | + | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project, as well as being promoted as background for exhibitions. |
- | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. | + | |
- | ===== REGULATION ===== | + | * other models (positive and negative) |
- | Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. Produce an Exceptions reading menu as research result. | + | Cafe Kino http:// |
- | + | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from | |
+ | within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, | ||
+ | good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | ||
+ | networks.)) | ||
+ | Leila' | ||
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+ | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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+ | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. | ||
+ | HTTP is a http:// | ||
+ | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. | ||
+ | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. | ||
+ | HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed use (typically integrating residential, | ||
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+ | ===== REGULATORY STRUCTURE ===== | ||
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+ | [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
+ | Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
===== MENU ===== | ===== MENU ===== | ||
- | | + | * Curatorial |
- | * food sources: search existing http networks for producers | + | |
- | * new networks: city farm, green roof, guerilla garden and allotment relations | + | Coincide with HTTP core curatorial principles |
- | * considerations: | + | |
- | * integrate feral trade core aims | + | |
- | * source and transport via organisational networks, use current affiliations and transits plus promote new ones (grocery callouts to allied orgs) | + | * Stock Options |
- | * standard | + | |
- | * limits | + | All menu items should be also available to buy as take-home groceries, where possible. |
- | * commissioning foods, seasonality | + | Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include: |
- | * writeability: | + | |
- | * staples: coffee, tea, milk, sugar, cola, ' | + | |
- | * emergency sale items | + | - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity, |
- | * cultivation | + | as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships |
- | * under the counter other | + | except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with |
+ | human relations, including possibly unpleasant | ||
+ | Commoning produces social relations in the form of commons, freely associated humanity. | ||
+ | Sarai Reader http:// | ||
+ | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport | ||
+ | - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/ | ||
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
+ | | ||
+ | - locality | ||
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+ | All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). | ||
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+ | * Information | ||
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+ | Ingredients and products with questionable or complex ethics should be included on the menu, along with their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and purity fetishes (eg. the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http:// | ||
+ | to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. | ||
+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
- | **OUTPUTS** | + | |
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+ | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | ||
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+ | Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | ||
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+ | * Reciprocity | ||
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+ | Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute | ||
+ | menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). | ||
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+ | * Seasonality | ||
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+ | Economy of downscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | ||
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+ | or nation state, to more closely replicate the worlds HTTP works in. A shared set | ||
+ | of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
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+ | * Suppliers | ||
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+ | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | ||
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+ | * Delivery | ||
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+ | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP | ||
+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http:// | ||
+ | Actively promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign. | ||
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+ | * Regulations | ||
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+ | Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. | ||
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+ | * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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+ | - Coffee from El Salvador | ||
+ | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
+ | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | * Other organisational contenders | ||
+ | |||
+ | - http:// | ||
+ | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | ||
+ | - Irational.org, | ||
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+ | ===== OUTPUTS ===== | ||
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+ | ===== SHORT VERSION ===== | ||
+ | Feral Trade cafe at HTTP gallery | ||
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+ | Feral Trade http:// | ||
+ | HTTP http:// | ||
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+ | HTTP gallery (media- and net-art) is a cultural minority in a mainly working | ||
+ | class / cafe free residential area of NE London. The cafe will start off very small | ||
+ | scale and is modelled as a means of extending natural office tea and coffee service | ||
+ | to gallery visitors and locals. It is not motivated by cash profit, although goods | ||
+ | should cover their own costs. | ||
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+ | All goods will be served with information about source and/or delivery, | ||
+ | including the materiality of cash transactions performed to procure them. | ||
+ | Visitors should be able to buy coffee etc either by the cup or in bags to | ||
+ | take home. | ||
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+ | The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including | ||
+ | known and funded cultural travel, to conduct international grocery | ||
+ | trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | ||
+ | idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | ||
+ | the broader ecology of supply. | ||
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+ | The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, | ||
+ | local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the | ||
+ | territorial boundaries of the village or state. | ||
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- | * local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/ | ||
- | * external: present at fo.am open sauces event in brussels in november as part of public diet strand; optional network/ |