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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 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 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. ** +**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 culture. 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. ** 
  
  
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 Practical Practical
  
-1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park 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. +1. 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.
-Elongate visit.+
  
 2. 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.  2. 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. 
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 Conceptual  Conceptual 
  
-    http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology, that promotes free    +    http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes 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. +    so many shops deal with just money. 
     Feral Trade is an economy based on 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.     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
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 Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating 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    * income scenario 
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 Slow start.  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 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.    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
    It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic     It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic 
-   capitalist measure of success. +   market measure of success. 
    The investment is in the network.     The investment is in the network. 
    
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 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 [[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. 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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     Without affecting global warming.      Without affecting global warming. 
          
-Patio bonfires are worth looking into.+Patio bonfires worth looking into.
  
   * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand   * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand
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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 accessory to natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any lowered status. Instead take tea and coffee service as an interpretation of aristotlean idea of [[householding]]: production for use instead of 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. Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,+**Management:** Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. Day to day stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,
 probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.
  
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     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.
-    Mnay of their 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 tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social      good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social 
     networks.      networks. 
  
-    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Review covers the for & againsts pretty effectively:+    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Grocery outlet and cafe, review covers the for & againsts: 
     http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html     http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html
  
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 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
     Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of      Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of 
-    farmer/producer/collective, a surprisingly homogenous landscape+    farmer/producer/collective, a homogenous landscape
 http://feraltrade.org/fair http://feraltrade.org/fair
  
-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+    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.htm 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     Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute 
    menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.    menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
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    Economy of miniaturisation / small-scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items    Economy of miniaturisation / small-scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items
    ultra short seasons.    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     Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP 
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    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.    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.     Commission or collect artists' food projects. 
  
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