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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 alternate communications system, this research involves testing the regulatory limits and social conceptions of food service, and the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. **
+**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods; and develop the protocols of refreshment service as accessory to the other public communications of the gallery. The research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might crossover; and includes testing the regulatory limits and social expectations for a cafe, as well as preparing the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. **
-Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]]
-HTTP [[http://www.http.uk.net]]
+Feral Trade http://feraltrade.org
+HTTP http://www.http.uk.net
 ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure =====
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 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 public.
+. HTTP is located in the back of beyond, a business arena in the residential London borough of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk, from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, oppportunity to elongate visit.
-A cafe would give exhibition visitors something to chew on to accompany the art, such as
-sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, information and reading.
-Elongate visit.
-. A service for local residents and studio occupants. A way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. The neighbourhood is changing - cafe would be an interface to that.
+. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.
 Conceptual
-    Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology.
+    http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes free
-    Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global
+    processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global capitalism:
-    capitalism. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on
+    so many shops deal with just money.
-    other peoples' activities and how you get from A to B.
+    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.
 [[feral_trade_economy]]
-Financial
+Economic
-Profit is not a motive for the cafe, which opens up the territory considerably.
+Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating territory considerably.
+Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption.
   * income scenario
+Slow start.
 All transactions logged and accounted for.
-The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as probable.
+The cafe will be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding required for start-up equipment and utensils.
    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
-   excluding it from basic capitalist forms of success.
+   market measure of success.
    The investment is in the network.
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 Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs.
-Current average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving via Manor House tube.
+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
 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 gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year.
-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
+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.
 Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts.
-    It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter.
+    http: It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter.
     Without affecting global warming.
-    Patio bonfires are worth looking into.
+Patio bonfires worth looking into.
   * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand
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 When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors.
 Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic.
-Currently Ale (Furtherfiled administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator.
+Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays there is an outside invigilator.
-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 other office activity?
     * roles for cafe.
 **Service:** preparation, waiting, cash-taking.
-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://www.furtherfield.org/about.php]]
+http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php
-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.
+Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any separate lowered status. [[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. Day to day stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,
-Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,
 probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.
   * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices
-Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media).
+Initial investment will be necessary (equipment, utensils, presentation media).
-Stock would be expected to cover itself.
+At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood.
-Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area.
+The decking along the side of HTTP building is potentially prime seating area. HTTP to sound the landlord out on this between rent payments,
-{{:krich:http_decking.jpg|}}
-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. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are
-formally HTTP's, included in rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally. Decking get no sun in gallery hours so parking might anyway be preferable.  {{:krich:http_front_decking.jpg|}}
+formally HTTP's, included in their rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally (on the decking).
-Is the back garden an alt possibility? {{:krich:http_garden1.jpg|}} {{:krich:http_garden2.jpg|}}
     Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
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 Also promoted as background for exhibitions.
-  * operating models (positive and negative)
+  * other models (positive and negative)
-    Cafe Kino [[http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm]], Bristol.
+    Cafe Kino http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm, Bristol.
-    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.
-    High proportion of customers are from their extended social networks & probably live
+    Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from
-    within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,
+    within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,
-    good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social
+    good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social
     networks.
-    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Review covers the for & againsts pretty effectively:
+    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Groceries and cafe, review covers the for & againsts:
     http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html
-=====  REGULATION =====
-Use existing [[uk_premises_regulations]] as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.
-    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.
 ===== HTTP structure  =====
-  * Current conditions
 Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc.
-HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project.
+HTTP is a http://furtherfield.org project.
 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 / live-work.
+HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed use (typically integrating residential, retail, commercial and social amenities) / live-work.
+=====  REGULATORY STRUCTURE =====
+[[uk_premises_regulations]]
+    Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.
+    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.
+http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=jello+mold&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
 =====  MENU =====
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    - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]
-   - shelf life / perishability
+   - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste
-   - the facility of the food item to host information
+   - the facility of the food item to host information, including
    - 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: network relations, trade relations in delivery, embodied by courier/s.
-   - seasonality, including microclimates
+   - seasonality, including transportation seasons
-   - locality
+   - localness
-   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of
+   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, landlocked
-   the village, to a shared set of connections with known transit routes,
+   village model, to a shared set of connections and navigable transit routes,
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.
 [[common_products]]
-   The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships
-   except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with
-   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.
    Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their
-   source information. The priority is to expand the product monologue to articulate a
+   source information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue to articulate a
    larger picture of the world it moves through.
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
-    As opposed to the now common iconic picture of producer, which overriders other
+    Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of
-    relations
+    farmer/producer/collective, a homogenous landscape
+http://feraltrade.org/fair
-[[http://feraltrade.org/fair]] fair trade iconography for example 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, enacted by François Millet back in 1857
+    reversing earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture labour as a
+    statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. Gleaning:
+    François Millet 1857
-[[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.html]]
+http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm
-[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash involved in the goods' procurement, particularly its obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.
+   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a space for communication, as
+   opposed to righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes.
-   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS
+http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products
-   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes.
-   Undercut profit-motivated product constructions of elevated origins and destinies,
+   Undercut profit-motivated product constructions, elevated origins and destinies,
-   the type of truth claim propagated by fresh 'n' wild.
+   the type of truth claim propagated by fresh and wild.
+[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash, as witnessed in the goods' procurement, particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.
    Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute
    menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
    Economy of miniaturisation / small-scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items
    ultra short seasons.
-   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven,
+   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, probably database-driven,
-   and include a section for items not in stock eg. in negotiation or pending.
+   and include a section for items not in stock: wished for, in negotiation or pending.
    Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP
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    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.
-   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks
+   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks,
-   including city farm and allotment, home cultivation (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) .
+   including city farm and allotment, home cultivation (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts).
    Commission or collect artists' food projects.
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    external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet
    disucssion