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- | 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 (an industrial estate in the residential London |
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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activities and how you get from A to B. | 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. | ||
- | [[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 - which opens up the operating territory considerably. | ||
- | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption. | + | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide |
- | Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. | + | |
feral trade: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 measures of success. 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 mainly Portuguese clientele. | + | Portuguese cafe in the other direction has good cheap espresso and a mainly Portuguese clientele. |
The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | ||
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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 London geography and keep the cafe open in | http: It would be a coup to overcome London geography and keep the cafe open in | ||
- | winter. Without | + | winter, without |
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Patio bonfires worth looking into. | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | ||
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- | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). | + | * Stock Options |
- | Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | + | Stock selection |
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- | Selection | + | |
- | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | + | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters |
- | - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste | + | - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste |
- | - the facility of the food item to [[common_products|host | + | - the facility of the food item to reveal |
+ | 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. | ||
- seasonality, | - seasonality, | ||
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- | | + | All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard |
- | or nation state, to a model more accurate for the world HTTP works in: a shared set of | + | |
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- | * Fairness | + | |
- | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their | + | Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, |
- | source | + | |
- | larger | + | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included |
+ | to articulate a broader | ||
[[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
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- | Fair Trade in comparison limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of the farmer/ | + | * Other Menu Information |
- | and one that reverses 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:// | + | |
- | Feral Trade takes food-labeling as an opportunity for diverse communications as opposed | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
- | 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 stock (sale, trade or gift). | menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). | ||
- | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | + | * Seasonality |
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+ | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Localness | ||
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+ | | ||
+ | or nation state, to more closely replicate the world 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 | ||
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 | ||
- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and relationships expands attention to food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation | + | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http:// |
- | of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote | + | Actively promote |
- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | + | * Regulations |
- | (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). | + | |
Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. | Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. | ||
- | | + | * Basics: |
- | - Coffee from El Salvador | + | |
- | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | + | |
- | - Cola from Bristol. | + | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) |
- | - Salt from Gujarat | + | - Cola from Bristol. |
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
+ | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products http:// | ||
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+ | * Other organisational contenders | ||
- | Other organisational contenders | + | |
- | | + | - Mejor Vida Corporation, |
- | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | + | - Irational.org, |
- | - Irational.org, | + | |
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