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-**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, for autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods and examine the protocols of refreshment service as potential communications medium. The research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might align; and includes testing the regulatory limits and social expectations of a cafe, as well as preparing the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. ** +**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, for autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods and examine the protocols of refreshment service as accessory to the other communications of the gallery. The research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might align; 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. ** 
  
  
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 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
-2. As well as gallery visitors, provide 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.+2. Additionally provide 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.
  
 Conceptual  Conceptual 
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 [[feral_trade_economy]]  [[feral_trade_economy]] 
  
-Financial+Economic
  
-Profit is not a necessary motive for the cafe, which opens up the territory considerably.+Profit is not a necessary motivation, which opens up the territory considerably.
  
   * 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 needed for start-up equipment and utensils. The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding needed for start-up equipment and utensils.
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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, Fridays can be more hectic. Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic.
-Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. +Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday they pay an 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 the basic running of other office activity?
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