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| ====Know-Hows==== | ====Know-Hows==== |
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| Here is the documentation of making experiments I performed during my Transiency. Making seems to be a performance-enhancing activity complementary to mind-centered work. Increasing the amount of making activities in my schedule is therefore part of my research towards Self-Sufficiency as well as my research towards a more efficient and pleasant [[michka:daily_schedule_scheme|Daily Schedule Scheme]]. | One of my objectives this year was to improve my know-how skills through making experiments. I also wanted to see how including making in my daily schedule would impact my concentration during mind-centered activities. |
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| ===Bioproductive Balcony=== | ===Bioproductive Balcony=== |
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| Self-sufficiency starts with one of our most basic needs: Food. I will therefore try to learn the basic of gardening this year. FoAM gave me their balcony as an experimental space for an urban vertical garden. I will try to make the most of this space, including the valorisation of some of these byproducts for non-alimentary activities. | After being involved in the P2P Food Lab project as a Subsidies Proposal Writing Assistant, and developing some DIY bio-sourced electronics to monitor a garden, the next logical step is to... garden |
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| [[michka:know-hows/bioproductive_balcony|Here]] is the page dedicated to this experiment. | [[michka:know-hows/bioproductive_balcony|Here]] is the page dedicated to the small garden I started on FoAM's balcony. |
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| ===Recipes=== | |
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| ==Lunches== | |
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| [[:michka/know-hows/vegetable_curry_with_rice|Vegetable curry with rice]] | |
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| [[:michka/know-hows/sweet_and_sour_vegetables_with_semolina|Sweet and Sour Vegetables with Semolina]] | |
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| [[:michka/know-hows/calliflower_carrots_parsnip_curry_with_rice|Calliflower, Carrots and Parsnip Curry with Rice]] | |
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| ==Other experiments== | |
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| I prepared [[:michka/know-hows/tomatillo_chutney|Tomatillo's chutney]] out of green tomatillos which were kindly offered to me by [[http://opengreens.okno.be/person.php?id=85|Annemie]] after a day spent working in her [[http://annemariemaes.net/research/urban-corridors/urban-artfarm-2012/|rooftop garden]]. | |
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| Being an absolute fan of [[:michka/cramique|cramique]], the famous raisins-containing Belgian brioche, I decided I would try to cook it myself. | |
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| ===Making objects=== | ===Making objects=== |
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| ==Obtaining Raw Materials== | ==Obtaining Raw Materials through Urban Foraging== |
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| Everytime I walk through Brussels, I stumble on hundreds of kilos of not-that-waste materials. Rather than buying new materials, I will try to make the most of this existing resource to make objects. | Everytime I walk through Brussels, I stumble on hundreds of kilos of not-that-waste materials. Rather than buying new materials, I will try to make the most of this existing resource to make objects. |
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| An abundant urban waste-resource material is wood, mainly in the shape of pallets. Here is what I learned during my two first [[:michka/know-hows/pallet_dismantling|pallet dismantling]] experiments. | I identified some [[michka:know-hows:urban_foraging|sources]] of not-so-waste materials, [[michka/know-hows/pallet_dismantling|dismantled some pallets]], [[michka:know-hows:recipes|cooked]], and folded some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zd-Uc5Kgco|origami envelopes]]. Then, I mixed up making and research to build up supercapacitorsm, microbial fuel cells, cook materials or grow kombucha, and more. |
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