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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, london uk, autumn/ | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, london uk, autumn/ |
Feral Trade [[http:// | Feral Trade [[http:// | ||
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Practical | Practical | ||
- | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http:// | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http:// |
- | A cafe would give exhibition | + | A cafe would give exhibition |
sustenance and conviviality; | sustenance and conviviality; | ||
Elongate visit. | Elongate visit. | ||
- | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. | + | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. |
- | 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. | + | |
Conceptual | Conceptual | ||
- | Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology: so many shops deal with just money. | + | Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology. |
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. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' | + | capitalism. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on |
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+ | [[feral_trade_economy]] | ||
Financial | Financial | ||
- | [[feral_trade_economy]] | + | Profit is not a motive |
- | Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement | + | |
* income scenario | * income scenario | ||
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The investment is in the network. | 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 Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. | ||
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There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library [[http:// | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library [[http:// | ||
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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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. | ||
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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 dedicated invigilation, | Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, | ||
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfiled |
Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity? | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity? | ||
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* roles for cafe. | * roles for cafe. | ||
- | Service: preparation, | + | **Service:** preparation, |
Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel. | Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel. | ||
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. | ||
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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]], | 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]], | ||
- | Management: Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. | + | **Management:** Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. |
Weekly 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. | ||
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* physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | ||
Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media). | Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media). | ||
- | Stock would cover itself. | + | Stock would be expected to cover itself. |
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Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | ||
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. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are | on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are | ||
- | formally HTTP' | + | formally HTTP' |
Is the back garden an alt possibility? | Is the back garden an alt possibility? | ||
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* Current conditions | * Current conditions | ||
- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett | + | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership |
- | HTTP is a [[furtherfield.org]] project. | + | HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project. |
- | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | + | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. |
Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. | ||
HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work. | HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work. | ||
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Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | ||
- | Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability), | + | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be |
- | network relations, | + | |
- | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. | + | |
- | These include seasonality, | + | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters |
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- | + | - the facility of the food item to host information | |
- | + | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport | |
- | | + | - information on carriage, |
- | to a shared set of connections | + | - seasonality |
+ | - locality. | ||
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+ | the village, | ||
like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
+ | [[common_products]] | ||
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+ | The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships | ||
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+ | human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) | ||
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+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | ||
- | [[common_products]] | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]] |
- | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | + | [[fair_trade_relations]] |
- | the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including | + | |
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- | + | Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS | |
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- | | + | the type of truth claim propagated by fresh ' |
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- | via sell/ | + | menu items via sell/ |
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- | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | + | ultra short seasons. |
- | perhaps database-driven | + | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven, |
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- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey | + | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys |
- | documented, | + | relationships |
- | of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply. | + | of origin or source, to a broader ecology of supply. |
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- | Commission or collect artists' | + | |
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- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) | + | Commission or collect artists' |
- | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | + | |
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Cream tea variations. | Cream tea variations. | ||
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Feral Trade staples start menu. | Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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