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| ====Michka's Transiency==== | ==Michka's notes== |
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| 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. | Here is a tentative [[michka:portfolio|portfolio]] of prior research projects, residencies, workshops, trainings and talks I have done, as well as publications I have written or appear in. |
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| ===Quick Jumps=== | I followed the invitation of Barbara Sher to create an [[michka:explorations|exploration report]], including open-ended and unachevied projects. |
| * 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:kombucha_culture_waste|Kombucha Culture from Waste]] | |
| * [[michka:research:banana-peel-bioplastic|Banana Peel Bioplastic]] | |
| * [[michka:research:Peltier|DIY Thermoelectric Systems]] | |
| * 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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| ===Introduction=== | Originally, this part of the libarynth was first created as a place to document part of my [[michka:transiency-main-page|transiency]] research in 2013-2014. |
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| 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. | More recently, I used it to: |
| | * document the project we performed with [[http://zprod.org|Paul Granjon]] on [[michka:research:microbial_fuel_cells|microbial-fuel-cell-powered robotics]]. |
| | * document the two art-science workshops I lead at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts d'Epinal (ESAL) on [[michka:phenomenes|phenomenes]] and [[michka:sable|sand]]. |
| | * list resources on [[michka:alternative-engineering|alternative engineering]], initially for students from the "Humanities and technology" bachelor in Université Technologique de Compiègne (UTC). |
| | * other partially structured information : you can check the full list of pages of this namespace [[https://libarynth.org/?idx=michka|here]]. |
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| 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. | You can also join [[https://t.me/joinchat/4hYcxso5_QdiM2Jk|my Telegram channel]], register to my aperiodic [[https://us20.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=680472e676559bd625aae5902&id=77460e00a3|newsletter]], or check [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/michka-m%C3%A9lo-16987743/|my LinkedIn profile]], [[https://www.facebook.com/michka.melo|Facebook profile]] or [[https://twitter.com/elaborateur|Twitter feed]]. |
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| 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. | Project sparks that I have in mind these days, contributions welcome: |
| | * [[michka:subsistence|Subsistence]], a tentative inventory of inspiring subsistence strategies used by those who want to live the good life, avoid working to make the powerful & wealthy more powerful & wealthier, and/or contribute to the commons in a non-monetizable way. |
| This is for the personal level. | * [[michka:games-for-the-future|Games for the future]], a tentative inventory of existing games playfully teaching essentials skills for a better life (with [[https://twitter.com/MikhaelPommier|Mikhael Pommier]]). |
| | * [[michka:entrepreneuriat-libertaire|Entrepreneuriat libertaire]], reflections on a domination-free regenerative entrepreneurship. |
| 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. | * [[michka:Transition Compass]], a tentative to better understand what roadblocks limit ecologically/socially-driven people to use their full potential to respond to the current disaster we are living. |
| | * How do we measure well-being/quality of life/happiness/meaningfuless felt by a population/society: [[michka:alternatives PIB|Alternatives to GDP]] |
| 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]]. | * [[michka:lausanne_alternative]], a draft list of Lausanne-based alternative orgs. |
| | * [[michka:loup]], a list of reference addressing the controversy of wolves attacking sheep and other cattle in specific areas. |
| 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 ? | * [[michka:technojustesse|Technojustesse]], a draft program on technocriticism 101 for engineers, also sharing meaningful tech-related initiatives. |
| | * [[michka:21engineers|Practical guide for XXIst century engineers]] |
| 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. | * [[michka:support|Organizations I would like to support]] |
| | * [[michka:victorystories|Victory Stories]], spreading stories of how social movements won. |
| Let's get started ! | * Le qui-est-ce de l'ingénierie alternative, ou des personnages des luttes sociales ? |
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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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