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Know-Hows
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 Daily Schedule Scheme.
Bioproductive Balcony
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.
Here is the page dedicated to this experiment.
Recipes
Lunches
Other experiments
I prepared Tomatillo's chutney out of green tomatillos which were kindly offered to me by Annemie after a day spent working in her rooftop garden.
Being an absolute fan of cramique, the famous raisins-containing Belgian brioche, I decided I would try to cook it myself.
Making objects
Obtaining Raw Materials
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.
An abundant urban waste-resource material is wood, mainly in the shape of pallets. Here is what I learned during my two first pallet dismantling experiments.