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public_diet [2008-07-12 10:57] – katerichpublic_diet [2008-07-12 11:26] – katerich
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-**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, london uk, autumn/winter 2008. A platform for presentation for feral trade goods and protocols; and an exploration of food service as communications system, this research involves testing the regulatory limits and political contexts of food service, and the resources, required, human and otherwise, to run it. ** +**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, london uk, autumn/winter 2008. A platform for presentation for feral trade goods and protocols; and an exploration of food service as communications system, this research involves testing the regulatory limits and political conceptions of food provision and service, and the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. ** 
  
 Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]] Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]]
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 Practical Practical
  
-HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harringay]] from the point of view of its visitors.  +1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harringay]] - from the point of view of its visitors.  
-They would like to give exhibition goers something more to chew on, such as    +A cafe would give exhibition goers something more to chew on such as    
-sustenance and conviviality, space for contemplation, information and reading.+sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, information and reading.
 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
-Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is+2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is
 changing, it's is a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and  changing, it's is a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and 
 open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.  open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. 
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     get from A to B. Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.     get from A to B. Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
  
-[[feral_trade_economy]] 
  
 Financial Financial
  
 +[[feral_trade_economy]] 
 Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably. Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably.
  
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 All transactions logged and accounted for. All transactions logged and accounted for.
-The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as necessary.+The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as probable.
  
    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
-   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort +   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, 
-   excluding it from basic capitalist success. +   excluding it from basic capitalist forms of success. 
    The investment is in the network.     The investment is in the network. 
    
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 Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs.
-Average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving via Manor House tube. +Current average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving via Manor House tube. 
 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, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes.  detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. 
-Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso, largely Portuguese clientele.+(Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso and a largely Portuguese clientele).
  
 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows.
 The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. 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 +There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library [[http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib6/summer_of_folk.shtml]] and Feral 
 Trade cafe could occupy the gallery space. People would visit for the library, or for meetings. 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.  Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. 
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 When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors.
-Saturday and Sunday have more dedicated invigilation, Friday can be more hectic.+Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic.
 Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator.  Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. 
 +
 +Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity?
  
     * roles for cafe.      * roles for cafe. 
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 This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group.
 [[http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php]] [[http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php]]
-Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of any +Cafe service should be continuous with / accessory to natural office life and disinvest food service of any lowered status. Instead advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium or active interpretation of aristotlean ideas of [[householding]], which can be defined as production for use as opposed to production for gain. 
-lowered status, advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium. +
- +
-   As with the principle of householding (Aristotle/Polanyi) which consists of catering for one's own household, which has nothing in common either with the motive of gain or with the institution of markets. Its patterrn is the closed group: whether the very different entities of the family or the settlement or the manor formed the self-sufficient unit, the principle was invariably the same, namely, that of producing and storing for the satisfaction of the wants of the members of the group. +
  
-Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility.  +Management: Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. 
-Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.+Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility, 
 +probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.
  
  
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