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====Know-Hows==== | ====Know-Hows==== |
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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 [[michka:daily_schedule_scheme|Daily Schedule Scheme]]. | One of my objectives this year was to improve my know-how skills through making experiments. I also wanted to see how including making in my daily schedule would impact my concentration during mind-centered activities. |
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===Recipes=== | After being involved in the P2P Food Lab project as a Subsidies Proposal Writing Assistant, and developing some DIY bio-sourced electronics to monitor a garden, the next logical step is to... garden. I therefore started a [[michka:know-hows/bioproductive_balcony|Bioproductive Balcony]] experiment on FoAM's balcony. |
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==Lunches== | Otherwise, I identified some [[michka:know-hows:urban_foraging|sources]] of not-so-waste materials, [[michka/know-hows/pallet_dismantling|dismantled some pallets]], [[michka:know-hows:recipes|cooked]], and folded some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zd-Uc5Kgco|origami envelopes]] for seed storage and exchange. |
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[[:michka/know-hows/vegetable_curry_with_rice|Vegetable curry with rice]] | I ended up mixing up making and research to build up supercapacitors, microbial fuel cells, cook materials or grow kombucha, and more. |
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[[:michka/know-hows/sweet_and_sour_vegetables_with_semolina|Sweet and Sour Vegetables with Semolina]] | |
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==Other experiments== | |
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I prepared [[:michka/know-hows/tomatillo_chutney|Tomatillo's chutney]] out of green tomatillos which were kindly offered to me by [[http://opengreens.okno.be/person.php?id=85|Annemie]] after a day spent working in her [[http://annemariemaes.net/research/urban-corridors/urban-artfarm-2012/|rooftop garden]]. | |
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Being an absolute fan of [[:michka/cramique|cramique]], the famous raisins-containing Belgian brioche, I decided I would try to cook it myself. | |
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===Making objects=== | |