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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, |
- | Feral Trade [[http:// | + | |
- | HTTP [[http:// | + | Feral Trade http:// |
+ | HTTP http:// | ||
===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ||
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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 | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Haringey |
- | A cafe would give exhibition | + | |
- | sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, | + | |
Elongate visit. | Elongate visit. | ||
- | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. | + | 2. Additionally provide 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. |
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+ | [[feral_trade_economy]] | ||
+ | Economic | ||
- | Financial | + | Profit is not a necessary motivation, which opens up the territory |
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- | [[feral_trade_economy]] | + | |
- | Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement | + | |
* income scenario | * income scenario | ||
+ | Slow start. | ||
All transactions logged and accounted for. | All transactions logged and accounted for. | ||
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding | + | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding |
Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | ||
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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 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 and a 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. | ||
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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 | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
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. | ||
- | [[http:// | + | http:// |
- | 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 | + | 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 an active |
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+ | **Management: | ||
- | 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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+ | Tables, chairs, umbrellas, signage would be important to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | ||
Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | ||
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* operating models (positive and negative) | * operating models (positive and negative) | ||
- | Cafe Kino [[http:// | + | Cafe Kino http:// |
- | Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop/Gallery over the road. | + | Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop & Gallery over the road. |
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within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, | within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, | ||
- | good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | + | good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social |
networks. | networks. | ||
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Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. | ||
- | HTTP is a [[http:// | + | HTTP is a http:// |
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. | ||
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Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | ||
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- | Stock considerations include | + | primary or exclusionary. Stock considerations include: |
- | - compliance with or skirting regulatory perimeters | + | - compliance with or skirting |
- | - shelf life / perishability | + | - shelf life: essential for a slow-sales charter |
- | - exploration of network relations | + | - the facility of the food item to host information, including |
- | - the facility of the food item to host information | + | - information on source: relations with land embodied by the transport of its produce |
- | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | + | - information on carriage: network relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. |
- | - information on carriage, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. | + | - seasonality, including transportation seasons |
- | - seasonality | + | |
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- | the village, to a shared set of connections | + | of the village, to a shared set of connections |
like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
+ | [[common_products]] | ||
+ | The commodity, as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships | ||
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+ | human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh). | ||
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- | Eg. [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | + | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] |
+ | Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of | ||
+ | farmer/ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | [[common_products]] | + | reversing earlier radical trajectory of visualising agriculture labour - in the case of gleaning - as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue: François Millet 1857 |
- | The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships | + | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ |
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- | human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) | + | |
- | [[breakdown_of_expenses]] | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash involved in the goods' procurement, |
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- | [[fair_trade_relations]] | + | |
Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS | 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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ultra short seasons. | ultra short seasons. | ||
Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, | ||
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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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