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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 ===== | + | Feral Trade [[http:// |
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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. | + | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure |
- | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. | + | |
- | HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. | + | |
- | HTTP compound is zoned a s mixed / live-work. | + | |
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- | ===== CAFE MOTIVES, STRUCTURE & INFRASTRCTURE | + | |
- | Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. | + | * Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. |
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+ | Practical | ||
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+ | HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http:// | ||
+ | They would like to give exhibition goers something more to chew on, such as | ||
+ | sustenance and conviviality, | ||
+ | Elongate visit. | ||
- | HTTP is located in the back of beyond from the point of view of its visitors. | + | Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood |
- | Would like to give visitors to the exhibitions something | + | changing, it's is a way of connecting with the local community that' |
- | | + | open, a softer |
- | Elongate visit. | + | |
- | Useful service for local residents and studio occupants The neighbourhood is changing, | + | Conceptual |
- | it's a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer | + | |
- | interface than the gallery. More everyday. | + | |
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Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | ||
- | capitalism. | + | capitalism. |
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- | * income scenarios | + | [[feral_trade_economy]] |
- | 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, | + | Financial |
- | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss. | + | Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably. |
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+ | * income scenario | ||
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+ | All transactions logged and accounted for. | ||
+ | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as necessary. | ||
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+ | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | ||
+ | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort | ||
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+ | The investment is in the network. | ||
* hrs of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | * hrs 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. | ||
+ | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library and Feral | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | ||
Without affecting global warming. | Without affecting global warming. | ||
- | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | + | Patio bonfires |
- | In winter it could be a kiosk, menu devised for creating heat or utilising refrigeration. | + | |
* 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 (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday |
- | * roles for cafe: preparation, | + | * roles for cafe. |
- | | + | Service: preparation, |
- | This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way furtherfield | + | Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel. |
- | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of | + | This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield |
- | lowered status, service as a portal for communications. | + | [[http:// |
+ | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of any | ||
+ | lowered status, | ||
- | Stock management would be 1 person' | + | Weekly stock management would be 1 person' |
- | Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | + | 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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- | Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | ||
- | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | ||
- | on the compound. | ||
- | | + | Initial investment would be an advantage. |
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+ | Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | ||
+ | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | ||
+ | on the compound. | ||
+ | legally HTTP's, paid for within | ||
+ | Is the back garden an alt possibility? | ||
- | Liability would need to be thought through. | + | Liability would need to be thought through |
* publicity | * publicity | ||
- | | + | Cafe would have its own publicity strand, as a HTTP project. |
- | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. | + | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. |
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+ | * operating models (positive and negative) | ||
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+ | Cafe Kino in Bristol. Vegetarian cafe, opens weekdays 11-5, longer on weekends. | ||
+ | Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop and Gallery over the road. | ||
+ | High proportion of customers are their extended social networks who probably live | ||
+ | within a few blocks. People go for the sociability, | ||
+ | good tea and coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | ||
+ | networks. | ||
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+ | Leila' | ||
+ | http:// | ||
===== REGULATION ===== | ===== REGULATION ===== | ||
- | Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. Produce | + | |
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+ | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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+ | * Current conditions | ||
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+ | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE. | ||
+ | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | ||
+ | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. | ||
+ | HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. | ||
+ | HTTP compound is zoned as mixed / live-work. | ||
===== MENU ===== | ===== MENU ===== | ||
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- | Goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | + | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) |
- | Determined by a biodiversity of criteria, none of which will be primary | + | Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability), |
- | Seasonality, localness, information on source, information on carriage, | + | |
- | trade relations with source, trade relations | + | |
+ | These include seasonality, locality, information on source, information on carriage, | ||
+ | trade relations with source, trade relations | ||
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- | | + | to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes |
- | Expand conception of local beyond village fortress model | + | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. |
- | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | + | |
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+ | [[common_products]] | ||
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+ | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | ||
+ | the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including | ||
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+ | Open up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS righteous | ||
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+ | Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute | ||
+ | via sell/ | ||
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Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | ||
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+ | and list items currently in negotiation or pending. | ||
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- | to deliver goods from afar, even shop-bought ones. Journey and relationship | ||
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- | Artists foods: eg. Food for Free project apple mush on toast | + | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP |
+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey and relationship | ||
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+ | of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply. | ||
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+ | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | ||
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+ | Cream tea variations. | ||
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- | incl city farm and allotment contacts. | ||
Feral Trade staples start menu. | Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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- Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
- Cola from Bristol. | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
- | + | - Salt from Gujarat | |
- | + | Other organisational contenders | |
- | | + | - Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. |
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+ | - Irational.org, | ||
- | * food sources: search existing http networks for producers | + | ===== OUTPUTS ===== |
- | * new networks: city farm, green roof, guerilla garden and allotment relations | + | |
- | * 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) | + | |
- | * standard form for visiting artists/ | + | |
- | * limits of biscuit | + | |
- | * commissioning foods, seasonality | + | |
- | * writeability: | + | |
- | * staples: coffee, tea, milk, sugar, cola, ' | + | |
- | * emergency sale items | + | |
- | * cultivation | + | |
- | * under the counter other | + | |
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- | **OUTPUTS** | + | |
- | * local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/ | + | local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/ |
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+ | external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet | ||
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