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==== Michka's Transiency==== | ====Michka's Transiency==== |
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Page under construction. | ===Quick Jumps=== |
| * Lifestyle Re-Design |
| * [[michka:know-hows|Know-Hows]] |
| * [[michka:know-hows:bioproductive_balcony|Bioproductive balcony]] |
| * [[michka:know-hows:urban_foraging|Urban Foraging]] |
| * [[michka:daily_schedule_scheme|Daily Scheduling Scheme]] |
| * Research |
| * [[michka:research:supercapacitors|Upcycled Home-Made Supercapacitors]] |
| * [[michka:research:cooked_materials|Cooked Materials]] |
| * [[michka:research:microbial_fuel_cells|Microbial Fuel Cells]] |
| * [[michka:research:printer_dynamo|Printer Dynamo]] |
| * [[michka:research:banana-peel-bioplastic|Banana Peel Bioplastic]] |
| * Personal Project Management |
| * [[michka:project_definition|Project Definition]] |
| * [[michka:documentation_strategy|Documentation Strategy]] |
| * Inspirations & External Connections |
| * [[michka:reading_list|Reading List]] |
| * [[michka:information_sources|(Alternative) Information Sources]] |
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__What is a Transiency ?__ | ===Introduction=== |
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__Why a Transiency now ?__ | I am currently benefiting from the [[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/|Transiency Program]] offered by FoAM. The Transiency program is designed to help creative people perform a transition in their personal and/or professional life. As a 25-year-old, (almost) fresh out of the school, why would I like to already perform a transition ? There are actually some reasons. |
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__What will I do during this Transiency ?__ | I have been involved in [[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michka-mélo/43/877/169/|scientific/technical/engineering studies & work for seven years]]. Together with some moment of [[http://www.lapaillasse.org/news/1309/diy-bio-based-electronics-prime-a-la-maker-faire-rome|intense satisfaction]], I also noticed a scary underlying long-term imabalance I would like to adress. This imbalance seems to come mainly from an extreme proportion of indoors mind-centered theoretical tasks. I would like to spend more time outdoors. I would like to have my body exercised through my work. And finally, I would like to get my hands dirty and learn practical down-to-earth know-hows. |
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__Documentation__ | I benefited from an excellent training in [[http://www.epfl.ch|a very pleasant engineering school]]. However, I notice that I do not know how to fulfill my basic needs otherwise than by buying stuff. I don't know how to grow my own food. I don't know how to make or repair my own clothes. I don't know how to take care of my health in a preventive way, for instance, by enliving my body as much as my thoughts. |
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You can read my Transiency Diary, or only read articles focused on Methodology, Know-Hows, Aïkido, Recipes, or the Metabolhomics project. | This is for the personal level. |
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__References__ | On the intepersonal level, I live quite uncomfortably since I understood how every single action I was performing during the day was oppressing other people somewhere else. |
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Here are the links to several articles I consider as [[michka:landmark-papers|Landmark Papers]], who have played a role in designing the way I will try to conduct this Transiency. | Turning the heat on means extracting more oil, while global warming kills more and more people through Tropical storms, or while [[http://www.bastamag.net/Gaz-de-schiste-sur-les-barricades|Romanian are beaten up and put into jail as they try to defend their homeland from well drilling oil companies]]. |
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They are outlining inspiring thoughts or actions helping to understand that change is possible, as well as shocking observations and analysis helping to understand better why change is desirable. | Buying a computer means [[http://www.bastamag.net/Quand-Apple-ou-Nokia-ne-savent-pas|destroying essential ecosystems and polluting heavily groundwaters local populations are drinking]]. Is it possible, nowadays, to have a decent life without severely harming anyone ? |
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| I guess self-sufficiency, and [[http://www.tedresearch.net/teds-ten/|designing to reduce the need to consume are part of the answer]]. Which happily connects with the personal level desire for more outdoors body-involving practical activities. Perfect. |
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| Let's get started ! |
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| //[[http://fo.am/macrotransiency-michka-melo/|Here are]] some more insights on my motivations and objectives within this program.// |
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| ===Lifestyle Re-Design=== |
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| You may have understood it through the introduction, I basically |