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fringejoyride_residency_notes [2014-04-09 11:54] – [Bioluddites in waiting rooms] majafringejoyride_residency_notes [2023-05-08 11:36] (current) – [Session I: Notes 20140407] nik
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 ===== Fringejoyride Residency Notes ===== ===== Fringejoyride Residency Notes =====
  
-Residency at FoAM Brussels 20140407 -> 20140411+[[http://fo.am/microresidencies/|Microresidency]] by [[http://fringejoyride.com/author/fringejoyride/|Lisa Ma]] at FoAM Brussels 20140407 -> 20140413, as part of the [[:/future_fabulators|Future Fabulators]] project. The residency consisted of a series of discussions, concept development, co-creation and scenario building sessions, where Lisa was assisted, guided and mentored by the FoAM team (Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney, Rasa Alknsyte and Michka Melo). 
 + 
 +In preparation for the microresidency, FoAM hosted a scenario building workshop on [[:/future_fabulators/human_invasive_interaction|human invasive interaction]], in October 2013, in collaboration with [[http://www.timelab.org|Timelab]] at [[http://www.vooruit.be|Vooruit]] in Ghent. 
 + 
 +Read about Lisa's experience of the microresidency in the [[fringejoyride residency review]]
  
 =====Session I: Notes 20140407===== =====Session I: Notes 20140407=====
  
-  * [[notes on the luddites]]+| {{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13794440454}} | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13794441814}} | 
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 +Begin developing [[notes on the luddites]]
  
 ==== Origins of research ==== ==== Origins of research ====
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   * collating research notes   * collating research notes
   * presenting work in progress as something substantial and relevant   * presenting work in progress as something substantial and relevant
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 === Research questions === === Research questions ===
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   * FoAM: continue feeding the background research notes and think about answers to research questions   * FoAM: continue feeding the background research notes and think about answers to research questions
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 A speculative design session... A speculative design session...
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 === Aims === === Aims ===
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     * spontaneous ballet class     * spontaneous ballet class
     * Good gym model     * Good gym model
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   * (engaging people in) Conversations   * (engaging people in) Conversations
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     * putting people in a row     * putting people in a row
     * naming yourself as the group leader and animating the patients     * naming yourself as the group leader and animating the patients
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   * Research surveys (on bioluddite topics)   * Research surveys (on bioluddite topics)
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     * Miniature bioluddite gardens/ecological habitats (opposite to farmville)     * Miniature bioluddite gardens/ecological habitats (opposite to farmville)
     * bioluddite puzzle pieces that need everyone in the room to be put together     * bioluddite puzzle pieces that need everyone in the room to be put together
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   * Sharing the joys of the microbiome   * Sharing the joys of the microbiome
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 +=====Session III: Notes 20140409=====
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 +==== Morning discussion ====
 +
 +What are bioluddites' actions and how are they motivated? The waiting room discussion was a good start, but pointed to the holes in our understanding of who bioluddites are. Lisa began to search for an answer through a visual survey of her ethnographic imagery. Several clusters and themes emerged:
 +
 +  * what is the etiquette of the bioluddites?
 +  * misguiding/playful/questioning (mis)labelling (e.g. poison cupboard in the kitchen)
 +  * infiltrating mental pollution devices, such as magazine racks, posters and TV screens in waiting rooms
 +  * non-domestic aesthetics of technology; well designed communal technology on a human scale, its design radiates competence and confidence
 +  * bioluddite's actions fit into popular imagination and tweak them only slightly. if you don't know it's an action, it might look exactly as you imagine a situation to be (e.g. industrial animal market)
 +  * a bioluddite's product is not always available, you have to chase after it rather than expect it to always be available like non-perishables in a supermarket. Think of the ritualised sound of a spontaneous ice-cream truck, or mobile sellers like sandwich trucks (or alternatively, animal protein packaged to be eaten on the go, on a stick, such as kebabs).
 +  * bioluddite's actions are mobile, they might have a mobile kitchen/pharmacy, a closed loop system where animals are kept, slaughtered, prepared, served and disposed of, in hygienic circumstances, using well designed bioluddite technology
 +  * bioluddites are open about their sources and use displays of their wares to encourage trust and verify authenticity of their produce (whole animal displays, even celebrating displays of 'ugly' parts of the biotech process...) 
 +  * large (global) bioluddites' gatherings are organised regularly, where they invite sharing and participation of everyone involved. They prefer Unconferences to traditional conference setups.
 +  * to invite a wide public and demystify bioludditism, they often hold open houses and show displays of bioluddite labs, kitchens, libraries - a display of their everyday life, using themselves as role-models.
 +  * There are different recruiting techniques for different audiences: some are recruited to become fellow activists, others as customers, others again as bioluddites to be (children and animals)
 +  * the bioluddite actions happen in environments where high contrast is present, where natural and artificial co-exist (e.g. farming an abandoned theme park,  changing the menu of a McDonalds in a melancholic Chinese countryside, having a photo-shoot with a decaying pig's corpse on a popular beach...)
 +  * their lifestyle attempts to surface the antagonisms that exist around them (e.g. caged grass, beautifully staged displays of ferocious animals, nostalgia of rural lifestyles in hyper-urban environments...)
 +  * bioluddites point out and frame biotechnological and capitalist glitches in the world around them
 +  * bioluddites connect urban and rural populations, city dwellers to the living environments around them - they take people out of the architecture of the modern space
 +
 +
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13847988984/}} \\
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 +
 +**Other reflections**
 +
 +  * Displays of food tend to be used as verification of authenticity (making dumplings in the window, cutting sashimi in front of customers…) - implying that there might be a lack of trust between the service provider and the customer. Today a lot of the trust issues have been transferred to brands and trademarks, initially set-up as guarantees of quality, now more of a social proof of status (except for eco-certificates). An example where the display goes against quality, but stands for a principle (halal): the Australian sheep are shipped alive to the middle east, only so the local butchers can kill them in the 'proper' way. There is no trust in the Australian butchers to do it properly, even if that means that the meat will be of lower quality due to the animal conditions from the long transport. In the bioluddite context, this might mean exposing or visualising otherwise invisible parts of the biotechnological process (e.g. ritually displaying all ingredients of an inoculation). The aesthetics of the display is important to a bioluddite: it might be something in between a chinese medicine shop and a bio-lab. The question about displays and bioluddism is: how do you verify something for yourself without knowing how to 'do biotechnology'?
 +
 +* Could networked pyramid-like schemes (with multiple centres) be a viable alternative to the mainstream market economy, where bioluddites could work with homesteads and small co-ops; with two differences to the common pyramid schemes -  that everyone in the network/pyramid appreciates and uses the products, rather than being in them just for the money and that the supply never grows beyond the need. Could bioluddites use old (pre-industrial?) economic forms and adapt them to new contexts?
 +
 +  * How can bioluddites insert themselves into the chain of trust between doctors and patients, food providers and eaters, scientists and their objects of investigation? Should they always do something 'relatable' (i.e. should they go for GPs or dentists)?
 +
 +==== Afternoon discussion ====
 +
 +Lisa & Maja researched separate tracks. Maja read up on the Luddites of the past and present to flesh out the [[notes on the luddites]]. Lisa researched about dandyism, the Amish, neo luddites and other tracks. We came back together after a couple of hours and continued the discussion:
 +
 +  * could bioluddites be something like lifestyle coaches? 
 +  * Lord Byron was both a dandyist and a Luddite
 +  * the earliest dandies were the first celebrities and taught society about personal hygiene... anti geek/transhumanist/businessman
 +  * bioluddite retreats - holidays from biotech, similar to social network retreats 
 +  * "curating lifestyles" - being a human biotech filter, helping to choose appropriate biotechnologies
 +  * bioluddites mid-emerging technologies with traditional approaches using a strong ethical filter; they help people find their way through the jungle of biotechnologies on offer
 +  * grandmothers as mentors, ambassadors of bioluddite conundrums, rather than give specific expert answers
 +  * doctors could have bioluddites in residence, who never force but inspire
 +  * bioluddites could have clinics with a social identity, making small tweaks in people's lifestyles, preventative approaches (like the quantified self); they might deal with addictions that aren't perceived as such - sugar, sitting, mental, adrenaline, coffee, pollution... their treatments could be mock-torture therapies; little tricks to play with people's psyche; enacted conundrums; immersive situations and scenes
 +  * they provide experiences that can't be explained in a simple piece of technology - they're against gadgets...
 +  * on the one hand they are dandyfying the status quo through parodies inserted in daily situations, on the other hand they provide experience prototypes of how things could be otherwise. they are playing with the edges between the prototypes and reality - pointing out problems in a ludic manner, using holistic approaches
 +
 +Summary:
 +  * bioluddites' motives are primarily social
 +  * they advocate human-scale, appropriate technology and 'anticipatory design'
 +  * they value wisdom and knowledge
 +  * they work with habits and ailments of contemporary lifestyle (though not as serious ones as addiction)
 +  * they offer experience prototypes and parodies of real life in the state-industrial complex, showing the faults and tearing on its edges
 +  * they are pro-choice so people are not 'slaves to technology'
 +
 +
 +=====Session IV: Notes 20140410=====
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 +Selecting relevant themes from [[:/future_fabulators/food_scenarios]] to chart bioluddites' biotechnology sphere
 +
 +Planning the research gathering
 +
 +== Bioluddite Menu ==
 +
 +  * Wild food sushi
 +  * Pickled garlic and nuts
 +  * Steamed artichoke flower with jerusalem artichoke dip
 +  * Potato peel chips with truffle oil
 +  * Mock meat meal on a stick 
 +  * Raw chocolate snuff, persian fairy floss
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 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13898766853" title="13A_0162 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/13898766853_827d201eda.jpg" width="280" alt="13A_0162"></a></html> <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899114864" title="__7_0155 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/13899114864_84103df6f4_n.jpg" width="270" alt="__7_0155"></a></html> <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13898767993" title="_9A_0158 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/13898767993_5ec995d51e.jpg" width="270" alt="_9A_0158"></a></html> <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899116324" title="12A_0161 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2934/13899116324_71173426d3.jpg" width="260" alt="12A_0161"></a></html>
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 +Drinks:
 +  * Water kefir
 +  * Sweet basil water
 +  * Herbal teas
 +  * Cube cola
 +  * Feral trade coffee
 +  * Local micro-brewed beer (perhaps [[http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brussels-beer-project-dark-sister/248127/|Dark Sister]] or [[http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/de-la-senne-taras-boulba/56185/|Taras Boulba]] or...)
 +  * Home made absinth for the brave
 +
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13898709025" title="__9_0082 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3742/13898709025_e131480fbe.jpg" width="514" alt="__9_0082"></a></html><html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13898766823" title="_11_0084 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/13898766823_db7f17efa5.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="_11_0084"></a></html>
 +
 +== Dress code ==
 +
 +What would a bioluddite dandy look like?
 +
 +
 +Annotations of Maja's Bioluddite costume 20140411:
 +  * Shrug made from invasive possum fur in New Zealand (anno 2014)
 +  * Wool and reflective fibre broche by a young designer in Iceland (made so cars can see you riding a bike at night) (anno 2013)
 +  * Organic cotton crocheted necklace by a Polish crafter in Maja's neighbourgood (anno 2013)
 +  * Organic cotton top by a Swedish designer, based on patterns from Luddite times (anno 2010)
 +  * Stretch silk dress gifted by a Dutch fashion design student in exchange for modelling services (anno 1996)
 +  * Linen underskirt with embroidered hem bought on the local flea-market (anno ~1930)
 +  * Stretch cotton sleeves made from Maja's old stockings (bought in Yugoslavia, 1990)
 +  * Outdoor merino wool underwear from New Zealand (anno 2008)
 +  * Handmade distressed leather shoes from San Francisco (anno 2013)
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 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13909445823" title="__2_0075 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/13909445823_6ae8eb75f4.jpg" width="500" height="363" alt="__2_0075"></a></html><html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899117994" title="33A_0182 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/13899117994_ee2ca4cacf.jpg" width="500" height="360" alt="33A_0182"></a></html>
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 +
 +== Flow == 
 +
 +  * 5-6 Apero with informal discussions on health, food, diy biology...
 +  * ~6 short presentation of the research by lisa, q&a
 +  * introduction to the edible bioluddite map and tasting foods & drinks
 +  * lisa propose a few bioluddite conundrums, discussion about how a bioluddite might react
 +  * drinks, food and conversation in the 'waiting room' or around the table
 +  * personal experience with a bioluddite coach (maja), for those who'd like to apply bioluddism in their daily life
 +  * throughout: documentation (photo, video)
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 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899117664" title="19A_0168 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/13899117664_93cec02719.jpg" width="526" alt="19A_0168"></a></html><html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13898706725" title="__4_0077 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3704/13898706725_fa91e10a47.jpg" width="500" height="348" alt="__4_0077"></a></html>
 +
 +== Planning ==
 +
 +Thursday
 +  * make bioluddite's etiquette chart (or a biotech sphere chart) for the coaching room (Maja, Nik, Lisa)
 +  * come up with at least 3 conundrums (Lisa)
 +  * decide on spaces and materials for the research gathering (Rasa, Lisa)
 +
 +Friday
 +  * Food shopping, preparation and presentation (Rasa, Maja)
 +  * Prep presentation (Nik, Lisa)
 +  * Documentation (Nik, Lisa, Rasa)
 +  * Hosting (Lisa)
 +  * Bioluddite enactment (FoAM)
 +
 +Saturday
 +  * compile documentation and put stuff online, tidy up notes, link pages
 +  * conclude waiting room scenario, write it up and possibly make a visual collage of it
 +  * write a blog post
 +  * visit Rasa's garden
 +
 +Sunday
 +  * final wrap-up and departure
 +
 +=== Bioluddite conundrums ===
 +
 +  * what do you think [[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/why-the-climate-corporation-sold-itself-to-monsanto.html|Climate Corporation being sold to Monsanto]]?
 +
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13934151169" title="research gathering3 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2933/13934151169_c22a2efcfe_c.jpg" width="800" height="600" alt="research gathering3"></a></html>
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 +  * should [[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/06/18/asia%E2%80%99s-food-security-conundrum-more-apparent-real.html
 +|biotechnology be used to feed]] the growing population in Asia?
 +
 +  * [[http://bit.ly/R5E3Qh|would you like to be told]] that you are very likely to develop an incurable disease within a few years? Should a doctor automatically give such information to a patient? Genetic screening has raised this issue by giving doctors the ability to diagnose genetically related (but still untreatable) disorders…
 +  
 +  * should we use [[http://fringejoyride.com/2013/12/23/human-invasive-interactions/|invasive species as a resource]]?
 +
 +  * when asked about the amount of medical help one would choose in a dire situation, most doctors choose to die at home without medical help, arguing for a quality of life rather than quantity. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-choose-die How should that affect the rest of our seemingly obvious choices about survival? Are doctors role models?
 +
 +  * in 2012, Target the consumer store sent baby coupons to a teenage girl who had not told her parents she was pregnant http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml What's the role of companies in our seemingly private bodily changes?
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 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14117766252" title="research gathering4 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2918/14117766252_b28e38f78b_c.jpg" width="800" height="600" alt="research gathering4"></a></html>
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 +  * Is elaborate biomimicry biotechnology or is it just technology borrowing from biology?
 +
 +  * Pandas have very little effect on their habitat and are extremely expensive to maintain. in 2012 Canada spent $10million renting pandas from China during budget cuts elsewhere http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-08-27/why-i-hate-pandas-and-you-should-too. Pandas have little hope of breeding in the wild. Should we keep up with this fetishized animal’s lack of affordance to survive?
 +
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13934149329" title="research gathering5 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5556/13934149329_ef32068614_c.jpg" width="800" height="564" alt="research gathering5"></a></html>
 +
 +  * Why do Cooking channels not making ppl cook more while smoking /drinking makes ppl more prone to smoke/drink?
 +
 +  * Is [[http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/latest-news/hill-farmers-hit-back-at-monbiot-over-rewilding-calls/61850.article|rewilding an aristocratic conservation]] crossing with fantasy themeparks that drives food-production to poorer countries? Should we support this luxurious attempt at a wilder aspiration? 
 +
 +  * Is recycling keeping the human population in a better balance with the environment or is it only a marketed loophole for the conscience?
 +
 +  * When to use biofuel and why?
 +
 +
 +<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899117494" title="_13_0086 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7312/13899117494_14b2fb1ac8.jpg" width="500" height="362" alt="_13_0086"></a></html><html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/13899119194" title="_12_0085 by foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/13899119194_6e1d77b889.jpg" width="526" alt="_12_0085"></a></html>
 +
 +
 +=== Bioluddite charter ===
 +
 +In the afternoon we distilled our notes and thoughts into the beginnings of a **[[Bioluddite charter]]** with the following sections, based on Chaordic principles (used for example [[http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/resources/chaordic_organisation.html|here]].
 +
 +  * Purpose/Preamble – That which identifies and binds the community together as worthy of commitment and personal effort. An unambiguous vision or concept of the future.
 +
 +  * Principles – The behavioural aspirations of the community. (...) Must have a high degree of ethical and moral content, which does not prescribe behaviour but guides it.
 +
 +  * Concept – A general view of the best possible institutional embodiment of purpose and principles. A general picture of the desired relationships.
 +
 +  * Structure – The specific anatomy of the organisation. The contract of rights and obligations between all members of the community. 
 +
 +  * People – The initial members of the community and the leadership essential to effective initiation and evolution of the purpose, principles and structure. 
 +
 +
 +----
 +
 +related: 
 +  * [[Fringejoyride residency review]]
 +  * [[Bioluddite charter]]
 +  * [[notes on the luddites]]
 +  * [[:/future_fabulators/human_invasive_interaction|scenarios on human-invasives interaction]]
 +  * [[:/future_fabulators/residencies|Future Fabulators residencies]]
 +
 +  * [[http://fo.am/research-gathering-lisa-ma/|Research Gathering at FoAM]]
 +  * [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157643831604755/|Photos on flicrk]]
  
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