7. "If kitchens were public–like schools and libraries—how would that change social life?"
At
@ds4si , we have been exploring this question through our Public Kitchen intervention since 2011.
As public infrastructures--hospitals, water, schools, transportation, etc--are privatized, the Public Kitchen takes a stab at going in the reverse direction. It is an installation designed to help us realize that the ways in which public infrastructures can improve the quality of our lives is still a work in progress. We still have room to imagine the futures we want to create! Doing this takes experimentation and creativity. To spark that, the Public Kitchen is a “productive fiction,” and as such it’s our experimentation with a new, more vibrant social infrastructure that:
(1) Challenges the public’s own feelings that “public” means poor, broken down, poorly run, and “less than” private
(2) Engages communities in claiming public space, the social and food justice
(3) Makes a new case for public infrastructures through creating ones that don’t exist.
Have you engaged in Public Kitchen over the years? We’d love to hear your story—how has it impacted or transformed your social life?
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