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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/ | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, autumn/ |
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Practical | Practical | ||
- | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond, an industrial estate in the residential London | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond |
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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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 capitalism: | + | processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global capitalism |
- | so many shops deal with just money. | + | so many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' |
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Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
- | [[feral_trade_economy]] | + | |
+ | ((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.)) | ||
Economic | Economic | ||
- | Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating territory considerably. | + | Profit is not a necessary motive |
- | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption. | + | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide |
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- | * income scenario | + | |
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- | Slow start. | + | |
- | All transactions logged and accounted for. | + | |
- | The cafe will be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding | + | |
- | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | + | feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. |
- | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding | + | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort |
- | | + | basic market |
- | The investment is in the network. | + | |
* hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | ||
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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 cafe in the other direction has good cheap espresso and a mainly |
The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | ||
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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. | ||
- | http: It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | + | http: It would be a coup to overcome |
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Patio bonfires worth looking into. | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | ||
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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 (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays |
- | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | + | Hazards: |
+ | At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | ||
* roles for cafe. | * roles for cafe. | ||
**Service: | **Service: | ||
- | Cafe service | + | Service |
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:// | ||
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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 | + | Initial investment |
At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | ||
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- | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potentially prime seating area. HTTP to sound the landlord out on this between rent payments, | + | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area, although in terms of afternoon sun gets a total eclipse. HTTP to sound the landlord out on decking |
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' |
Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | ||
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* publicity | * publicity | ||
- | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project. | + | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project, as well as being promoted as background for exhibitions. |
- | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. | + | |
* other models (positive and negative) | * other models (positive and negative) | ||
- | Cafe Kino http:// | + | Cafe Kino http:// |
- | | + | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from |
- | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from | + | within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, |
- | within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, | + | 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' | + | Leila' |
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===== HTTP structure | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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[[uk_premises_regulations]] | [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
- | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | + | |
Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
http:// | http:// | ||
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- | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). | + | * Stock Options |
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- | | + | All menu items should be also available to buy as take-home groceries, where possible. |
- | primary or exclusionary. | + | Stock selection |
- | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]] | + | - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste |
- | - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste | + | - the facility of the food item to reveal |
- | - the facility of the food item to host information, | + | as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships |
+ | except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with | ||
+ | human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh). | ||
+ | Commoning produces social relations in the form of commons, freely associated humanity. | ||
+ | Sarai Reader http:// | ||
- 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 and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | ||
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
- seasonality, | - seasonality, | ||
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- | | + | All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). |
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- | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | + | |
- | [[common_products]] | + | * Information |
- | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics | + | Ingredients and products with questionable |
- | | + | to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. |
- | | + | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. |
- | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | + | |
- | Compared with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of | + | |
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- | http:// | + | |
- | and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture | + | * Other Menu Information |
- | labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. | + | |
- | Gleaning: François Millet 1857 | + | |
- | http:// | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: Menu also to include items and incidents in the transit of cash preformed for the goods' procurement: |
- | Feral Trade takes food-labeling as a space for diverse communications as | + | Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent |
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- | fresh and wild. | + | |
- | http:// | + | |
- | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | + | * Reciprocity |
- | 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 peddling |
- | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | + | * Seasonality |
- | ultra short seasons and microclimates. | + | |
- | Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include | + | |
- | out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery. | + | |
- | | + | Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/ |
- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys | + | |
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- | of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. | + | |
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- | | + | * Localness |
- | food projects, | + | |
- | (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). | + | |
+ | or nation state, to more closely replicate the worlds HTTP works in. A shared set | ||
+ | of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
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+ | * Suppliers | ||
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+ | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | ||
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+ | * Delivery | ||
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+ | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP | ||
+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http:// | ||
+ | Actively promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Regulations | ||
- | Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer | + | Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. |
- | limits of biscuit; cream teas. | + | |
+ | * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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+ | - Coffee from El Salvador | ||
+ | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
+ | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
- | Feral Trade staples start menu. | + | * Other organisational contenders |
- | - Coffee from El Salvador | + | |
- | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | + | |
- | - Cola from Bristol. | + | |
- | - Salt from Gujarat | + | |
- | Other organisational contenders | + | |
- | | + | - Mejor Vida Corporation, |
- | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | + | - Irational.org, |
- | - Irational.org, | + | |
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trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | ||
idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | ||
- | broader | + | the broader |
The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, | The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, |