Talk & Workshop: Spatial Practice as Social Enterprise with Anna Wakeford Holder (Studio Polpo). The future development of a Kitchen Studio for the Centre for Art and Ecology raises the question of what a communal kitchen should be like. How should its design respond to the situated challenges of their institutions and the communities that … Continue reading Communal Kitchen Design – 25/06/2025
Part of “Where is the Meal?” Event series. Food is often eaten on the go, while walking, cycling, driving, on buses, the tube, trains and airplanes. Eating on the go entails different practicalities of eating. Space is restricted. Normal infrastructures of eating, such as tables and chairs are often either entirely absent or much smaller, … Continue reading Contested Places – 14/06/2024
Part of “Where is the Meal?” Event series. The urban terrain is increasingly being redefined through delivery services. Delivery services depend on unambiguous, clearly locatable addresses to deliver food. So far, addresses in the UK are mostly tied to buildings. But what if addresses become part of public space? How will public space be reconfigured … Continue reading Meals without address – 23/05/2024
Part of “Where is the Meal?” Event series. Food is distributed unevenly within towns and cities. The absence of good quality, affordable and culturally appropriate food in some areas has serious consequences for the quality of meals and for the health and mental wellbeing of local residents. Local unavailability of food is also dependent on … Continue reading Food Oasis – 14/05/2024
Part of “Where is the Meal?” Event series. This event explores meals in public as sites of conflicts. Parks and other public areas are important places for families, friends and groups to come together and share meals. This can be particularly relevant for people and, often, migrant communities who don’t have private gardens, for whom parks offer … Continue reading Conflictual Meals – 04/05/2024
Part of “Where is the Meal?” Event series. This event explores temporal and situative community building through meals. Many meals take place in settings that are neither private households, nor restaurants or commercial spaces. Such settings may be community kitchens, neighbourhood meals or part of art projects. They provide unique opportunities for bringing people together, … Continue reading Community Kitchens – 19/03/2024
Where is the Meal? is a series of five events responding to the question of how meals relate to place, and its cultural, political, technological and legal conditions. Each event is comprised of a meal, designed collaboratively by the event organisers and two invited guests and prepared for an audience of up to 30 people, at … Continue reading Where is the Meal? – Event Series
