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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 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.

However, matching what you need with what you find needs a little bit of strategy. I will therefore document here my Urban Foraging experiments and good practices.

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.

A few objects

Make Origami envelopes. Only old paper is needed, no glue. I use them to pack up seeds for the bioproductive balcony, or to exchange them through Graines de troc and Plant Catching.

List of Forthcoming Projects
  • Cardboard furniture
  • Solar oven
  • Hay box
  • Fruit/Vegetable dryer
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