Some studio self-production key texts. Apart from Autarceia and Briefs 2, transla- tions and adaptations from dutch originals. Suggestions, comments, welcome. mail: studio self-production.org Briefs A new garden Autarceia Basic property Buy less, buy different, produce yourself ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIEFS 1. A different economy ? Certainly, produce most of your material needs (step by step, together) yourself. Participate, also in a wider socio-political context to it : a right to land, basic income, self building. And consider, that development of self- production would be so much easier than that of train, automobile, aeroplane. ----------------------- 2. Self-production: an answer partly to Plato (Politeia), Aristotle (Politics, autarkei- a), More (Utopia), Defoe (Robinson Crusoë), Rousseau, Smith (The wealth of na- tions), Proudhon, Marx, Bakoenin, Thoreau (Walden), Gandhi, Ginsberg (Howl), ... , and many, many others. (additions welcome) ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A NEW GARDEN A NEW GARDEN Are there front garden, back garden ornamental garden, kitchen garden, utility garden, botanical garden and many other gardens, living garden now (maybe) too. ' In extension of kitchen garden and utility garden a living garden provides for food fuel, building and clothing material for water, for work. With minimal in and output of materials products outside garden or environment, to live by a living garden in a natural easy, clean, healthy, secure way is possible. PRIMITIVE MAN DIET Fruits, leaves, roots nuts, eggs, meat hardly grains everything fire-less and by intuition consult sources. '' PERMANENT DACHA The garden adjacent and in walking distance an equivalent area per inhabitant in it amongst others vegetation for food fuel, building, clothing. Residence thus, warm, collection of rain and or ground water, selective use of cement, glass, artificial and chemical substances. Consumption increasingly according to self production, limited buying of other goods, services, limited participation in the production thereof. PARADISE SOCIALISM Alongside paths, roads, streets is the waiting for seeds in quantities unseen of fruit-bearing green. --------------------------------------------------------------- Translation' 08.06 of Een nieuwe tuin' 92.91. ' A first use of the word, leeftuin (living garden), in Zelfvoorziening als banenplan (Self-sufficiency as a plan for employment), ' 82. '' Anopsology. Compare Hunza diet. ---------------------------------------------- Studio Zelfvoorziening ' 97.06.08 ^ -------------------------------------------------------- AUTARCEIA l. Local food Many airplanes, trains, trucks and ships supply metropolis a amongst others with foods. Places of origin of these foods lie scattered all over the globe, together a conside- rable area, per inhabitant not too large a field. Multiple the ways and long along which daily meals reach inhabitant, the manufac- turing thereby of the foods shows a same input of machinery and business. About half of the foods is luxury, delicacies, exotics, wellbeing inhabitants not ne- cessarily promoting, an other half remarkable cheap. Economists watch over the right functioning of the phenomenon, enjoy high wages , advocate low wages, minimal unemployment incomes and praise the export. Metropolis b. Situated like metropolis a, an equal number of inhabitants, few eco- nomists, some of the enough, some sustainables. Not many airplanes, no trains and a limited number of trucks, ships supply the metropolitans amongst others with foods. The fields whereby mainly they eat lie surprisingly near in extended interconnec- tedness around and in the metropolis. Non manufactured often or packed the foods arrive at places of destination, mo- dest kitchens, serving fairytale dishes, excellent drinks. Some inhabitants gather most meals themselves, from trees, bushes, plants in gardens delightfully theirs. 2. Local building As for foods, transports for building and construction to a metropolis cover sub- stantial quantities over enormous distances. From anywhere forests, quarries, mines, drills, by byways of processing the huge agglomeration of moving and non moving materials is collected. Industrial, commercial sites, networks of roads, of tube, of wire, wherein rather compact living quarters looking out on imposant buildings. Explanation by enginepower alone of the incredibly developed in multitude of me- dia told of, falls short. Times of manpower and horses saw a good many materials, for temples palaces graveworks, for weapons tools treasures arts carried under varied conditions from far. Posthistoric in some observations metropolis b architecture is called. Human measure all over, inventive fairly common employment of local materials, most open lay outs. Marvellously adapted to landshapes and vegetation phantasies of soft sloping terraces mark its typical, living, quarters. On few scarcely signposted mainways relaxed vehicles move, a quite natural river, minimal bridge. Basically b metropolitans use footpaths, coloured by season, of arcadic design. (3. Energy) ---------------------------------------------------- Studio zelfvoorziening, ' 92.94.02.04. ^ |
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BASIC PROPERTY Basic property' appears to be a novelty in english too, giving an opening on pro- gressive ideology development, also in retrospect, and being a powerfull tool in social philosophy, science, economy. To be understood as basic income: property that anybody has or ought to have. Is basic income not to be missed on internet, basic property in the sense implied is not yet present as such, presumably. That form of private property that realizes directly what socialisms, communisms and many anarchisms intended with 'communal property' on various levels: more equality among the population as for the availability of means of existence such as land, underground, water, forest, roads, residence plots, ..., or the products there- of. The idea though of a [equal] right to land and other natural resources not without an honourable tradition, also the link to a basic income as a consequence of it will have been made before. And intends the Universal declaration of the rights of man' the right to property dif- ferently, this in contradiction to the ample right to labour, with a right to food, clo- thing, shelter, plus [art.25.1] there lies a claim to means of existence that is not realized yet with an equal share in the natural resources / means of production. 'Theory of property' thus to be researched and developed, elaboration of the new property being in a primary stage [1], contemporary practical advantages are a ba- sic income to be derived from it, that partly in natura then: residence plot, garden plot, .., could be enjoyed. ------------------------------------- Translation, adaptation of Basic property. [dutch language, ' 06] 1. Some texts in dutch, researching central issues as family size and allocation of plots. ------ Studio self-production' 08. ^ |
. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUY LESS, BUY DIFFERENT, PRODUCE YOURSELF Less : for some bitter necessity, for others source of savings, such as cd's, drinks, cafe, restaurant, hotel, air travel ... . Different : basic materials, half-products from regio and locality, partly saving(s). Self : more completely or partly : food, clothing, furniture, house, water, energy, health, recreation, culture ... . A link thus between the wider consume less*, frugal and simple living, critical consuming, the consumer perspective in general and self-sufficiency. Is consumption production, the consumption pattern of self-production on an acre or so land and with minimum import-export, can be applied with little loss of characteristics to partiallly self-production in town or city. A garden thereto preferred, but not necessary. Raw materials to a lesser extent or none from own property then and more from locality and region, processing nevertheless mainly by oneself, amongst others in co-operative workshops. The lifestyle in both cases directed to least use of machinery, devices (energy, environment, local imports which need local exports), an indication : No refrigerator, vacuum-cleaner, washing machine. Refrigerator : cupboard under the sink, cooled by ground or water-pipe, cellar. Vacuum-cleaner : water sprinkler, broom, whisk , floorcloth if needed, appropriate floor, furniture without dust nests, mopping carpets. Washing machine : for the advanced : bucket with personal clothing daily on furnace, wring out and soaking several times (days) again, blankets and the like elsewhere Thus consuming and producing oneself towards self-sufficiency, putting money apart for realization of the local co-operative or departure when the time comes to country life. Political articulation with an equal intent. -------------------------- * buy nothing day transl. Studio self-production ' 09 from Koop minder, koop anders, produceer zelf, ' 06. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. ^ |