Since you have decided to act as NPC’s, i thought i might as well use you as notepad. Henceforth, i will be jotting down important notes on the first project i intended to do, and that is the village juice bar. The reason i am putting this out here, is because it is better than out of my head. If there is ever the slim chance that someone will read these words, then the ideas will live on, and there will be an even slimmer chance, that somehow, someday they might be put into practice.
Shall we begin?
It is custom that every place that looks great, is a place people pay attention to. Churches, mosques, museums, castles and so on. We want people to pay attention to this, so this has to be grand. The other reason this has to be grand, is because we want this little perpetuum mobile, this engine, to turn ordinary into extraordinary. We want people that work there to feel good, to feel like they are part of something greater, we want them to feel happy for doing their part, and for this to be a thing they would be proud for having done it for a while.
The juice bar has to have two large, tall blocks of stone, with the story of what this is, engraved in them, so that whoever reads this in the future, long before we – the makers are gone, they will have an idea about what we wanted, and what we were doing there. The stones should be written in the local language and in english, sort of like a Rosetta stone.
Somehow, the juice bar building would have to be encased in a larger building, designed by architecture students to be magnificent, but with a set of features that set it apart as far as meaning goes. It would have 12 deep walls, where 12 of the arts students, would paint them. Each student would get a wall named after them. They can choose to leave the wall empty if they don’t want to paint them right now, if they don’t know what they want to paint, but the reason why the walls would be deep, is that those walls would be theirs, for their entire lifetime. As they grow, and their life changes, if they want to come in and paint over the wall, they would do so, while preserving the initial painting, layering their current persona into the walls. If they would be doing this over the course of their lifetime, the walls would fill with layers of their growth.
It would be an attraction, some people would be forever connected to this place, and have a sense of proudness for having constructed it, it would be their own.
My initial thought was that this would be a perpetuum mobile that’s self-sustaining, not-for-profit, but i’ve changed my mind in the way that i think that if the economics students manage to work out the details to make it generate income, then whatever is on top of break-even and maintenance, should be put in a tank, where it all piles up, until the amount that was required for the original construction is reached, and then the funds are used to create another replica in another place. i know i am saying replica, but it’s never going to be a replica because each build will contain heavy elements of local individuality, considering that we’re always tapping into the local future talent.
The future – why do i want to bring in students for this? This should be fairly obvious – We have come so used to a way of living where one learns ways of society, then they work, in order to make money, and if they want to work, they spend the money in order to work. Seems rather silly.
We’re always looking at the future backwards. Older people, creating things when they are on their way out of this world, so that the kids left behind have something to look forward to.
i think we could do it properly – in the way that if you want a future, you ask the future to cooperate and help building it. It’s their world that we’re helping shape, so we might as well get them involved in building it.
i think i got out all i was thinking about. Maybe there’s more but there’s surely a shape.