Recycle X. The Voorstraat manual

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RECYCLE-X: THE VOORSTRAAT MANUAL

A project by The Patching Zone and NoordkaapDordrecht, The Netherlands, 2010

Coordination Kristina Andersen and Anne Nigten

EditingKristina Andersen

Copy editing Lyndsey Housden

Authors Kristina Andersen, Jingni Wang, Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento, Javier Busturia, JelleDekker, Zeljko Blace, Anne Nigten, Katja Diallo, Gilberto Esparza, Kitchen Budapest, JohannesBrechter and Burning Athens

Photography Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento, Jingni Wang, Jelle Dekker, Javier Busturia, ZeljkoBlace, Anne Nigten, Kristina Andersen, Gilberto Esparza, Membrandt, Kitchen Budapest, JeanMichel van Braak, Nuria Sofa Gonzalez Tugas, Mara del Carmen Saez Martnez

Ilustrations Jingni Wang, Javier Busturia, Jelle Dekker, Gilberto Esparza and Ricardo de OliveiraNascimento

Design Javier Busturia

ISBN 978-90-817051-1-0

Recycle-X: The Voorstraat Manualis licensed under a Creative CommonsLicense Attribution-NonCommercial

Sponsors and funders

Trivire, SNS Reaal Fund, Prince Bernhard Culture fund, Stichting Doen Bank Giro Lotery, VSBFund, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Ministry of Economic Affairs

www.recycle-x.nlwww.patchingzone.net

www.noordkaap.org


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Introducon

Recycle-X: How it began. Anne Nigten

Recycle-X about the programme. Katja Diallo, Noordkaap

How to use this book. Krisna Andersen

Who we are. Jingni Wang

Light. Krisna Andersen and Javier Busturia

Making light. Jingni Wang

Make your own fruit power. Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento

Build your logo with Arduino, LEDs and metal structure. Jelle Dekker

Seeing and drawing each other. Jingni Wang

A Strategy for Drawing What is in Front of You. Jingni Wang

Looking At and Painng Over [painng over Herman Brood with

Membrandt].Zeljko Blace

Growing. Krisna Andersen and Javier Busturia Cerezo

Talking to plants. Javier Busturia Cerezo

Sound circuit. Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento

Growing food. Javier Busturia Cerezo

Making paper-cups. Krisna Andersen

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Re c y c l e X, Ho w it b e g a n

By Anne Nigten

In 2007 Noordkaap invited The Patching Zone to join their work in Dor-drecht, to make an artistically critical and sustainable contribution tothe redevelopment of the Dordrecht shopping street Voorstraat Noord.We shared an interest in new, sustainable and critical approaches forthe improvement of Dordrechts local cultural life. Recycle-X sprangfrom our own motivation, Recycle-X is our response to the top-downpolitical agenda of the area. We aimed to contribute by enhancing anddiversifying the cultural appeal of the city, through a short and inten-sive collaboration between international talents and local stakeholders,residents and entrepreneurs.

The whole trajectory from the early plans through to its realisationpointed us to a very refined notion of sustainability, by this Im not re-ferring specifically to the projects ecological aspects, rather to the sus-tainability and the long-term effect of our work as part of a social andcultural eco-system in Dordrecht. After our early conversations and in-itial planning with Noordkaap at the end of 2008 we organized theTest_Lab goes Noordkaap event, hosted by V2_. Here artists, designersand policy-makers discussed the effects of interventions and designtactics with locals and a diverse, interested audience from elsewhere.This Test_Lab event set the tone for the Recycle-X project.

As the fundraising and our busy programmes caused some delay, it wasin January 2010 when The Patching Zone team arrived in the VoorstraatNoord, this delay implied a significant shift regarding our role

in collaboration with Noordkaap in the Recycle-X project. At the timeof our initial conversations Noordkaap had just established their head-

quarters in the new Werkstatt incubator centre for small cultural andcreative entrepreneurs in the Voorstraat. When we arrived in January

2010, Noordkaap and all the other organisations had already movedout of the Werkstatt incubator centre and the building was waiting for

wealthier and well-incubated firms to move in. This brought along avery different collaborative setting for our team, as we now found our-

selves to be the only Voorstraat based Recycle-X party instead of theoutsiders. We started in the mist of an unusually cold winter, but by the

time the sun was there our team had established themselves as activecultural producers in the Voorstraat community.

In the meantime, the Werkstatt building remained empty and by thetime the Recycle-X project was coming to an end, Noordkaap had

moved back to their former building as temporary users. Through thisstrange co-incidence we ended up in a sustainability relay race where

the cultural players filled the continuity gaps in the local cultural policy.The street, consisting of the local situation, the residents, the entrepre-neurs, is the constant factor for sustainability and we, the cultural acti-

vists, are the runners in the race. The Recycle-X team worked in thestreet as if it were a living lab. As one of the last outcomes we present

this booklet as a gift of appreciation for our collaboration. By handingover our experience and findings to the street, we hope to contribute toa sustainable development of the local cultural environment in the future.

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By Katja Diallo, Noordkaap

The more effort is being put into achieving a sustai-nable society, the more the goal and terminology it-self seems to be degrading into a worthless fashionitem. Through the collaborative Recycle-X project,Noordkaap aimed to shake the hyped-up recyclingtheme by inviting artists and designers that teststrategies and give new meaning to the recycling ofspace, economic systems, energy and waste. InRecycle-X the participants explored issues rangingfrom sustainability and open source, to reuse andDo It Yourself, all within the tangible context of aspecific shopping and living area facing urban res-

tructuring; the Voorstraat Noord in Dordrecht.

Highpoints were amongst others, Gilberto Esparza(Mexico City) with his project Stadsparasiet (UrbanParasite). After Gilberto shared his knowledge onthe concepts of biomass with the Recycle X team,they in turn brought Gilberto in touch with relevantgreen connections in the city. It resulted in the bothingenious and delightful installation Plantas Parlan-tas (Talking Plants). Via performan ces and works-hops the installation allowed the public to reallyexperience the green streams of energy, throughsound and image.

In Scratch that Itch Melinda Sipos (Budapest) andAndrs Sly Szalai (London) guided the participantsvia the basic principals of toy hacking to rethink and

consider the re-use of small electronics. The works-hop took place within an exhibition by Kitchen Bu-

dapest (KIBU), the Hungarian lab for new media.The space functioned as a temporary research and

play lab, where the public as well as the artistscould participate in typical KIBU experiments. Afterseven months Recycle-X was concluded with ScrapAddicts, a series of interventions in public space by

Munich artist Johannes Brechter. Famous for his ins-tallations in urban environments and his favoritemedium plastic, he created cartoon figures from

waste such as milk bottles, advertising stickers and

plastic cups and placed them in more or less forgot-ten corners in the public space.

Sound was an interesting addition to the multitudeof art forms, including the hysterical screaming

plants by Gilberto Esparza and Recycle-X, the trans-formed Chinese pagoda garden and kitchen gadgets

with their typical plastic clanking, to the sweatypsychedelic beats from transformed vacuum clea-

ners and electric childrens guitars through a live setof Logosamphia and POYS1PATRON.

The overriding impression the project leaves behindis the willingness of the artists to work towards fin-ding concrete solutions for current recycling issues,

while taking their artistic practice as a starting point.They contributed to new ways of thinking towards a

sustainable society.

Rec y c l e X, a bo ut t he pr o g r a mme


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Ho w t o u s e t h is b o o k

By Kristina Andersen

Do a small thing well.

This is a collection of what we learned from eachother and our neighbours whilst we lived and workedin Voorstraat 183 in 2010. It is a series of recipes andhow-tos. How to do a simple thing and how to do itwell. We feel that every big change must start smalland every big project is truly made up by many littleones. If you want to change the way you work or theway you live, you start by changing one little thing, andfrom that little change a bigger change may follow.

We work together by making together, we cook andgarden, we build and draw. By making together we

pay attention to each other and the process of ma-king itself. This process is a place where we can meet

across our differences, and this is a way we can make adifference, in our own life and in the lives of each other.

The book is divided into a number of themes that areall related to our main concern of sustainable living

and community thinking. Each theme has a small in-troduction and a number of recipes related to the

theme. We wrote them down for us, so that we will

remember, and we wrote them down for you. Wehope you will enjoy making together with us...


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Ma k e y o u r o w n f r uit po w e r

By Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento

Food is not only a good source of energy in the form of calories; it can also be source of electricity. Inspi-red by the light experiments, we tried to extract electricity from several fruits and vegetables (we foundthat the best one is the potato). Fruit and vegetables have chemical properties that make them work justlike electro-chemical cells. To use the potential chemical energy two types of metal are needed: zinc andcopper. Follow this recipe to see this for yourself:

You will need:

A potato, mandarin, apple, chili or other fruit you have at hand. A piece of Copper and piece of Zinc, a Di-gital or Analog Multimeter to measure the Voltage or Current, and leads with alligator clips.

Insert copper and zinc into the potato, close but not touching each other.

Using the clip leads, connect the Zinc and Copper to the Multimeter. (Make sure to test your multimeter

by connecting its Positive and Negative wires to each other, this should show no current and no voltage).

See how much energy you can get from one potato.


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Buil d y o u r l o g o w it h Ar d u in o ,

LEDs a n d me t a l s t r u c t ur e

By Jelle Dekker

Now that you have designed your lights and made your own technology,it is time to make the lights move. This is a recipe to make your own signusing simple technology and make it move.

[See image: remake_01.jpg]

You will need some chicken wire, LEDs and anArduino (www.arduino.cc) Cut the chicken wire in the shape you want,for example the letters of a text you want to

show. You will need two pieces for each shape. Connect the LEDs in between the two layers ofchicken wire with the positive leg on one layerand the negative leg on the other layer. Connect all negative layers to the ground con-nection of the Arduino. Connect each positive layer to a different outputport on the Arduino. Write the code to give it the preferred behavior.The following code example makes the letters ofthe RE-X logo blink.

For more help on these type of project, please referto www. processing.org

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By Jingni Wang

This is a self-portrait game. We played it at the very first event we held in the Voorstraat, a brunch at Pictura. When people are strangers to eachother and you want to help them open up to each other, this game is very helpful.

To play this game you need more than four participants. The game takes about one hour for 20-30 people. You will need paper and pens.

Each person in the group is given a piece of paper and draws two pictures, one is a self-portrait and the other is a drawing of someone in the group.The identity of the person in the second drawing is not be revealed yet. When the group begins to draw, it's important to tell them they dont haveto imitate reality, but instead try to think: What colour are you? What do you taste like? This way of thinking can be realistic, romantic or evenmagic. This takes about 20-25 minutes.

When everyone in the group is finished, place the portraits on a board so the whole group can see all the drawings.

Then each person takes their own drawings and describes themselves and the other person in only three words.

The process is quite simple but maybe you will find something interesting in your own observations and other peoples observations of you.

Se eing a n d d r a w in g e a c h o t he r


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So u n d c ir c u it


This circuit was used in the installation Plantas Parlantes, it creates sound when you close the circuit by tou-ching the water and the plants, creating a variable resistance.

You will need:

Breadboard, wires, 71hc14 chip, 10K resistor, audio plug, speakers for testing, battery (2.5 to 12v)

Steps:

Take the breadboard and connect the components as showed in the schema Connect the plus and the ground to the circuit Test first with only one pin and touch the wire of the variable resistance, you should hear a sound If does this not work double check the connections. It should look like the picture bellow. You can connect one side of the variable resistance to the plant and the other to the ground. To close thecircuit and generate the sound you should touch both ends.


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Ma k ing pa pe r c up s


You can use these paper cups are for growing seedlings in the spring.

You will need newspaper and a straight-sided glass Take a page of newspaper and fold it in 4 lengthwise You should now have a thick strip Place the top of the glass halfway onto the paper-strip Roll the paper onto the glass, allowing the paper to go over the top/edge of the glass. Push the over-hanging edge of paper into the glass Carefully remove the glass You now have a paper pot to plant your seeds in Fill the cups with soil and seeds Water and place them in a cardboard box and cover with plastic


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Fig h t in g bu g s !

By Jingni Wang and Javier Busturia

The arrival of spring brings thousands of small insects to your garden. They would like to suck the blood and energy from your plants, if you find thatyour vegetables are full of bugs and you dont act fast, your crop will be destroyed. There are two ways of doing this: You can run to the closest gar-den store and buy insecticide, a fast solution that is bad for your health as well as the local water system. The alternative is slower, you can fight thebug infestation with a natural insecticide like Ladybirds. In the closest countryside to your place you will find a lot of them. They are easy to catchand save in a small box until you arrive your garden, where you can just let them out and wait for them to do their work.

This happened to us too, we had a problem with aphids for weeks and in order to rescue the plants, Javier was ready to cave in and use chemicals.We had already collected ladybirds and introduced them into the garden, but the natural insecticide was still not working. Javier had already boughtthe chemicals and went to poison the insects when he came back saying: Oh, it's amazing! He had found a lot of strange black bugs in the windowgarden, and the harmful insects were reduced a LOT. Our garden was rescued! After looking on the Internet, he found out that the strange blackbugs were just the next generation of Ladybirds, their pupa. Ladybirds eat a lot of aphids, but their children, the pupa, eat like bulldozers in the fo-rest, they are really hungry while growing into adult Ladybirds! We had tomatoes in mid July!


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Wa t er


Dordrecht is a watery world. When you first arrive it seems like the Voor-straat starts in the water of the harbor and ends in the water of the harbor.In that sense the street can be seen as a bridge from one view on the waterto another. The waterways are full of movement, from our balcony at theback of the house we could always see boats and people passing, bird lifeand even fish, deep in the green waters.

When Gilberto Esparza arrived we took the opportunity to investigate thewater itself. The Dutch take water seriously. We talked to the engineersthat clean and manage the quality of the drinking water. We were thinkingthat there would be organically dirty water in the harbor we could use tobuild an installation around. Instead we found that the water of the water-ways in Dordrecht are organically cleaned and well managed. Suddenly the

children swimming in the canal outside made more sense.

But water is more than a transport medium, an ecosystem and a drink.Water is also a potential source of sound and of memories. Throughout ourstay in Dordrecht we have drunk and cooked with the water, washed in it,watched it and watered our plants with it. We recorded the sounds of thecanal outside and even from within the water. When we leave the house itwill be the water we will remember. The plenty and the taste. The constantmovement outside the window. The possibility of living on a bridge bet-ween one watery place and another. The feeling of living on an island andunder the sea.


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Gen e r a t e e n er g y by c l e a n in g w a t er : c o a l f il t er ing

By Gilberto Esparza, Carlos Godnez Seoane and Sergio Snchez Segado (INQUICA Grupe)

Gilberto Esparza created an experiment that cleaned polluted water by the action of working bacteria, producing electricity from this process: theMicrobian Fuel Cells. It is a complex system to build, but quite simple to understand how it works:

The microbian fuel cell is a bioelectrochemistry system capable of producing certain amounts of energy through effective wastewater purification.

You will need: Cylindrical chamber of 5 x 7 cm diameter, volume: 28ml, Anode made of graphite granules, a carbon Cathode made of special paperwith two parts, a diffusion layer to improve oxygenation, platinum catalyst First we filled the Anode chamber with sewage. Bacteria in the water will colonize the electrodes, creating a conductive film in between the graphite granules. The bacteria generate electricity through metabolism, 36hrs later it generates constant voltage of 0.625 volts.

www.plantasnomadas.com


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Ma k e a be n c h : s it in n a t ur e

By Jelle Dekker

One thing we made by recycling old wood was a bench-plant-pot. It started when Javier and I found some old planks in the attic of Voorstraat #183.This was a true exercise in recycling, even the nails were recycled and taken from the walls and floor earlier.During the summer seasons you often see Dutch people enjoying the weather and sitting outside. In Mediterranean climates it is usual to see thesame, enjoying the fresh air of the summer evenings and talking together. It is an ancient habit, collectively using public space as if it were private.InThe Netherlands people often grow plants outside their homes but normally only flowers are considered beautiful, what about the beauty of gro-wing tomatoes? Theyre amazing!

This was our idea, to build planter boxes surrounding a bench, using the street to grow food. The added bonus of sitting in a nice place in betweenthe plants is that you can take the fruit to eat!

See the images for the building instructions and dont hesitate to do it differently!


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f l ib l i i


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Ho w t o c r ea t e a f l e x ib l e c ir c u it


To build a flexible circuit you will need a piece of fabric, conductive thread, conductive fabric, 3v coinbattery and battery pouch, foam, normal thread, fabric glue or fusible interface.

You will also need some tools: a pair of pliers, scissors, needles, and an iron.

We are going to build the circuit below. To work, a circuit needs to be closed and we are going to makea fabric button to close it. When you press the button you close the circuit and make the LED light up.

Take a piece of fabric you like and draw the circuit on it. Sew the LED to the circuit on the fabric, using the conductive thread. Pay attention to the polarity ofthe legs. The short one is the ground. Use conductive thread or conductive fabric to complete the circuit. Sew on the battery pouch

Make the button using two layers of conductive thread. In between you should put the foam withsome holes in it. Sew it all together. When you press the button the two pieces of fabric should toucheach other through the holes in the foam.

Have fun with your flexible circuit. You can add these to t-shirts, bracelets, necklaces, etc. You can findmore projects like this at www.instructables.com


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Ho w t o Bu il d a Sl o w Wa g o n

By Javier Busturia Cerezo

We love slowness. A slow trip, slow love, slow cinema, slow food, and ofcourse in the following project, a slow wagon to slow down our entire wayof living.

At the end of July we spent a week looking for and documenting organiza-tions and people working or living in a sustainable way in Dordrecht. Thiswas an exploration and an opportunity to learn how local people incorpora-ted sustainability into their lives. We only knew a few people when we star-ted, but they soon introduced us to new people and we started to build anetwork. We kept a diary every day, and began to build a sustainable net-work map. Just one week was enough to start to change your own life ha-bits and rethink the possibilities.

On the Sunday we went into the street with our diary printed as a bookletand a small homemade slow wagon full of organic vegetables, some ofthem grown in our own garden and the rest from local organic producers.

You can easily build your own slow wagon. You just need some waste wood,an old pram and some paint. In the same way you can also build your ownsustainable local network. Just start asking the few people you know andthey will take you to other people and you network will grow.


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St r a t eg ies o f Tr us t


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St r a t eg ies o f Tr us t

By Zeljko Blace

There are not many strategies of trust that just work, for this reason its important to consider multiple approaches. Some find the friend-of-a-friend network to be the most reliable, but its likely that such a trust doesnt go beyond two degrees of separation, few would consider ex-panding it to four degrees of separation, especially since theory of 6 degrees of separation is well known.

Having shared affinities and value systems go a bit further. CouchSurfing in that sense is network of traveling and hosting enthusiasts, as wellas of people interested in sharing their resources non-commercially. An additional layer of common interest, for example a specific type ofart, camping location or subculture establishes a more specific common ground, which is a good basis for initial engagement and developingtrust.

The amount of social connections you have in common can be a good reference for developing trust, people with bigger social networks ob-viously have more social engagement. However some networks (like FaceBook) can generate huge amounts of vague and superficial connec-tions that are not representing individual qualities, dynamics or the nature of connections one has, just mere volume. CouchSurfing in thatsense is a much better source of reference.

www.couchsurfing.org

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Ho w t o t a l k t o s t r a n g e r s


Sooner or later in life we will face a situation where we need to talk with strangers. This is especially true ifyou are new to a country and if you are a bit shy that task can turn into a very difficult situation.

This is a list of tips about how to approach people you dont know. They are maybe obvious but it was inte-resting for us to write them down.

Smile Always start the conversation with good morning, good afternoon or good evening Be polite Make eye contact.Be prepared to receive no as an answer If you want something concrete, get to the point quickly Keep it simple

Dont ask intrusive questions Think positive of the outcome Be yourself, dont pretend to be something you are not


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Ho w t o ma k e a c u l t ur a l pr o be


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Ho w t o ma k e a c u l t ur a l pr o be

By Jelle Dekker

A cultural probe is a package made of several items, a mix of formal and playful things, such as maps, question cards, a diary and more creativeitems like clay or a small sound devices. These items are a starting point for investigation, creative tools that help to express thoughts and ideasabout our questions for the Voorstraat. We wanted to avoid obvious answers by offering unusual and creative ways to think about our ques-tions and the probe can also be fun!

The probes were handed out in the beginning of Recycle-X, after the first light workshop. They contained an empty map to draw what the Vo-orstraat is for you, several questions, a diary and a photo camera. Two out of the five probes were returned to us, one was filled with lots ofgreat ideas and this person continued to contribute through email, sending photos and other information. To get the best results from the cul-tural probe try to find people who are already interested in your project or express an interest in taking part.


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To t h e St r e e t s ... So me Us e f u l t ips t o


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By Burning Athens [friend of the Recycle-X house]

The locus of production is no longer the factory; the city has become the site not only of circula-tion, but also of production. As a result political struggles have been moving into the streets inorder to disrupt the circulation of commodities, of value and more importantly of consumers andof producers. The movement towards the city centre is not just a political gesture of assuming pro-minent sites of power and culture; it is a real attempt to harm the urban-machine of (re)-produc-tion. Such gestures may seem to be loosing some of their impact due to the expansion of areal-virtual system of relations, but the recurring often violent demonstrations in many Europeanmetropolises has reaffirmed the importance of street politics as one if not the main vehicles of po-litical antagonism. It is not a sixties revival, but rather a reinvention of a traditional tool of popularpolitics, partly enhanced and partly co-opted by the new media that are dominating culture, eco-nomy and politics in the dawn of the 21st century.

Blocking a street is necessarily a disruption to the organized system of circulation in the metropolisand will be treated as such by the state and the police. The bigger and more central, the longer andmore importantly the more unexpected, the better. The simplest way to do it, is to get enough peo-ple on the street, just standing there, defying the rules of traffic and the police will show up forsure (remember the police itself also blocks traffic and very effectively so). Numbers are always im-portant, but creativity is also essential. The most successful action is the one that can attractbystanders and passers by in the action. Creating small open spaces in the highways of urban circu-lation by re-appropriating them and putting them into different uses. Parties, dinners, games, cir-cus or carnival and any other imaginative types of participatory fun is the best possible strategy,and the one that requires fewer numbers on behalf of the demonstrators and the least use of vio-lence. Alternatively, a riot, a direct confrontation with traffic, along with self-made barricades bymaterial that are always available near by (cobblestones, garbage bins, even cars turned upsidedown) is an age old, almost romantic, way to stop traffic. Finally, and more un-interestingly the ea-siest and most boring way to block the street is to obtain a license for a legal demonstration. Thepolice will happily assist you, escort you and decide when you should go home. Legal demonstra-tions have the advantage of safety and can always be derailed to a more interesting and unexpec-ted expressions of disobedience and fun. Good Luck!

Enh a nc e yo ur Ur ba n Ex pe r ien c e


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Tr a ve l in g w it ho ut mo n e y : ho w t o o pe n


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t he w o r l d

By Zeljko Blace

Theory of time and space continuum permits us to be at many places in the same time,the practice of daily life limits us to areas, which are within economic reach and comfortof traveling.

Ideas of our capacity to travel allows us to consider certain options and avoid others - sothat Trans-Atlantic travel is possible to achieve only with significant funds, while local tra-vel can be super cheap or even free.

If we dedicate more time to travel and consider it part of the experience its possible tofind many ways to travel cheaply, outside of our immediate proximity and region. Car-share options, group ticket discounts or even hitchhiking can reduce costs or eliminate

them altogether. Informing your friends and social networks of your plans might offer afree trip or a travel companion to share the costs.


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Ho w t o d o a c o mm u n it y Din n e r


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By Zeljko Blace

To define a dinner as a community event means to consider several things from start: Collaborative planning and preparation between a few people brings a sense of

joint contribution beyond the shared costs. Flexibility in time, not everyone will be able to join at same time, find a way to save

and keep food warm for those who will join later. Dietary requirements, consider vegans, diabetics, people with allergies and

differences in eating habits. Address guests privately about the needs outlined above. This way everyone feels

individually involved, beyond the group dynamics.

A few things to avoid: Serving food that only is available in small quantities Serving different sized portions (except when requested or for children) Drinks and food that dont mix well.

Extra tips for a perfect community dinner: Involve everyone in the different stages (buying groceries, preparation, serving and

cleaning up). Find an element of intrigue or discovery, new tastes, ingredients or recipes. Stories and activities that go beyond eating (for all senses).

Having written this, there are some coincidences that cant be predicted, such as the ab-sence of invitees or bad cooking results. The dinner can also be a great success with poorfood and bad drinks if guests are having a great time and enjoying the social occasion!A successful dinner will bring a buzz and energy into the community, to continue with sha-red paths and endeavors.

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By Javier Busturia

Tortilla de Patatas also called Spanish omelet Tortilla Espaola is a popular dish throughout Spain,its a dish that crosses frontiers and cultural differences, and unifies Spanish people under the sametasty dish. Basically its a potato and onion omelet about 4cm thick, often served in bars as tapasand is eaten either hot or cold.

You will need:

5 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and thinly crash sliced6 eggs1 onion, chopped liter olive oilsaltpaprika pepper (optional)

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oesandonionand

mix well.

Heat alittleoilinafryingpanon

amoderateheat.

Pourinthepotatoesandeggs. S

hakethe frying panso theomelet

doesn'tstick.

Oncethebottomoftheomelet

is set, turntheomelet.Useaflat

plate, coverthe

fryingpan andquicklyturnover.

Thisactionlookslikeitsdone bya

nacrobatin acircus!

Gentlyslidetheomeletbackin

to thepan andcontinuefrying,sh

akingthepanfrom

timetotime,untilit hassetall th

ewaythrough.

During thelaststepyoucanadd

pre-friedpaprikapepperorothe

rvegetables over the

tortillaforanother tasteandnew

colors, forexample buildingflags

.


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Co c a Co l a Ch ic k e n


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By Jingni Wang

Coca Cola Chicken is a funny dish. It is cooked in a Chinese cooking style, using ginger, chives and soybean sauce, but mixedwith Coca Cola to make it new. You have to put the Coca Cola in to make the taste, but you can hardly taste the Coca Cola itself,if you dont know it is there.

What you need for this dish:

500g of chicken wings - make a small cut on each wingGroundnut OilOne can of Coca ColaGinger cut into small piecesChives cut into small piecesSugarSoya sauce

Step 1, (yan)Putthe chickenw

ings, soyasauce,gingerandsugartogetherinabow

landmarinade

for1 hour.Thisprocessin Chinese

called (yan),whichsoakstheta

steof thesauce

andherbsintofood,it couldbedo

nefor10minutes,onehour,one

dayor oneweek

tomakedifferenttastydishes.

Step2, (zha)

Putthe oilinthewokandthenad

dgingerandthechickenwings,t

hisprocesscalled frying inEnglish

,andinChinese

(zha).Fry thechickenwingsuntil

theyturn togolden,justa little b

it,theydontneedtobe fullycoo

ked.

Step 3, (dun)

Then,Itstimetousecola,put co

laintothepanwiththefriedchic

kenwing, alsomore soya sauce, a

ndalittlebitof

sugar,mixtogether. Simmer until

thesauceisalmostdry. Tryit,itc

ouldbedone.

Tips:

Usea small flametosimmer; this

makesthetastegointothefood

more gently.

Ifyoucover thewok, thefinal dish

willbemoister,if you taketheco

veraway,it will tastestrongeran

d be drier.


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Tea Time


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By Jingni Wang

I am from a typical Fujianese family from an area where Wulong tea is produced.Every day we have tea four times, before breakfast, after breakfast, after lunch, afterdinner, but it's not always the same, it very much depends on people's habits. The re-ason for having Wulong tea often after a meal is that the tea helps to clean the intes-tines and the stomach.

Normally once visitors come to a family home, the host will carry out tea tools andthey will start to have teatime as a welcome.

Having tea is a good way to calm down. Throughout the whole process, you can seehow the water flows and your hand controls the flow of water. If you control thewater well that means your heart is experiencing peacefulness, and at the sametime, you will hear the beautiful sound of the water itself.


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Ho t Te a


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ByJingni Wang

Whenmakingtea, it is important

torealizethat therearemanydiff

erentkindsoftea andeach

havedifferentwaysof brewing. Th

e goal howeverisalwaystomake

theteatastegood. In thefo-

llowingI willtakeWulong, atype

ofChinesered tea,asanexample

.

Placethetealeavesin apotandw

ashthe leavesbypouringhotwat

erintothepotandimmedia-

tely pouring thewater outagain.

Makethe teabypouringhotwate

rintheteapotagain,butthistim

eleaveit forseveral seconds.

Pourthefinishedteabrewinto an

otherpotwhile usingateastraine

rtopreventthetealeaves

from goingintothe secondpot.

Thereasonforkeepingt

heteainanewpotisthatthe tea

leavescannotstayinthehot wat

erfor

toolong; otherwisetheylose theirtaste.

The final stepistopour theteain

tosmall

cups. Sharethetea withpeople,

ordrinkit

alone.

Ho w t o Ea t Up


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By Kitchen Budapest

Justyna Brzkalik, Judit Boros, Anna Csfalvayov*, Krisztin Gergely, Ula Kowal*, William Speed*, Andrs

Szalai

The aim of the project is to develop a network for people who are ready to share their meals. The project willbe supported by a website eatup.com which helps users to search for 'eat up' meetings by area, number ofparticipants or dishes served; put online their own events or find people with common tastes.The Internet helps people not only share information and data, but also supports sharing real things in reallife. Cooking and eating together is a great opportunity to meet in person, not only with people we alreadyknow.

Using digital tools such as a website and mobile phone applications, 'EatUp' gives the opportunity to connectpersonally and socialize. You can decide if you want to host an event and specify details like location, expec-ted number of participants or dishes served.You can also search for people with the same taste, exchange recipes and experiences. The application, which

can be downloaded on the users' mobile phones, will allow guests to search for events taking place in the ne-arby area. Meanwhile hosts can decide if they want their event to be public or invitation-only, and also whe-ther they want to share an entire meal or just the ingredients, which is a perfect start for somecooking-together. After the event you can track the costs, share photos,comment on the food, guests and hosts.

EatUp had two testing events and guests were invited through EatUp!link with profile of the event.

This project was started as part of MOME (Moholy-Nagy University ofArt and Design) intensive course week, 2010 Do you share? Do youlike? by guest ERASMUS students*. EatUp website was being develo-ped further at Kitchen Budapest, but currently exists as a concept.

www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/eatup

Sh a r in g Fo o d


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By Jingni Wang

Sharing fresh food is a good way to promote ideas of life with people. Food is pretty and tasty and always appreciated by people. Whenwe interviewed local farmers we realised that while most people (including us) buy food from a supermarket, because we think it is chea-per, but buying from local producers can be the same price or even cheaper than the supermarket. Combined with our own experiencesof growing food in our windows and balconies, we decided that food was at the center of our investigation.

We decided to write a diary, to record our investigation and contacts and share it locally, but teaching by textbook alone is not always thebest idea, we all hate mechanical study! How could we give people a beautiful, colourful, friendly feeling? Maybe we couldstart to share our new knowledge by sharing food. When we told Rachel, a farm manager we had intervie-wed for the book, that we wanted to make an action in the street to share organic food with local people.She refused to sell us the produce but instead gave us a lot of herbs, vegetables, fruit, and flowers for free.We called our action and the wagon we used to transport the vegetables the slow wagon.

In the street people see this beautiful wagon and stop to try the tasty fruit and listen to our introduction,happily they take the diary home with them. The tomato is the most popular food from the wagon, it is co-

lourful and people can eat them directly. Please allow me to make a small conclusion: Sharing food is agood way to share knowledge and a beautiful mood.


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Bio g r a p h ie s


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Kristina Andersen (DK/NL)is a maker and researcher. She is currently thinking about tangible sensing strategies and magical thinking. Kristina is a men-tor at The Patching Zone, she supervised the Recycle-X project.www.tinything.comwww.patchingzone.net

Ricardo de Oliveira Nascimento (BR)Sao Paulo, 1977. Likes to create experiences that let people try something new. He works as artist, multimedia developerand producer. Graduated in International Relations by PUC - SP (www.pucsp.br) and Multimedia Design by Art CenterSENAC - SP (www.sp.senac.br).www.popkalab.com

Jingni Wang (CN)Shanghai based artist, born in 1986, is currently a student of China Academy of art , like sharing art with people from diffe-rent background, like to make things with soft technologieshttp://blog.sina.com.cn/niniwhatever

Javier Busturia Cerezo (ES)Madrid, 1977. He works with collaborative contextual environmental rural ecological art. Working on art related to localcontexts and collective works, build site-specific interventions aimed to construct identity community on territory and land.http://javierbusturia.blogspot.com

Jelle Dekker (NL)is a student at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Joined the project as partof his internship, interested in working together with the user and community, and how a design can fit into its environ-ment, triggering interaction from people.http://jelledekker.com

Zeljko Blace (HR)Is a precarious cultural instigator - inconsistently working in(between) fields of contemporary culture, media technologiesand sport, cross-pollinating queer, media, technology and social activism.http://zeljko.blace.name


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