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Collective Kitchens
My mission is to sense sociocultural biases in our built environment through a transdisciplinary practice of documentation and rehearse sustainable design solutions for the future of our cities.
Visceral Foodscapes : Envisioning the kitchen as a genderless, undivided space, the food performances would offer people agency by engaging with the materiality of food as a portal to building nourishing futures. Visceral foodscapes, when shared, lead to negotiations on taste preferences, smells, nutritional proportions, and enact different alchemical and cultural interpretations of ingredients/produce among people from various places and traditions. This fosters a new understanding of their histories, flavors, and consumption practices, bridging food disparities and reinforcing horizontal food networks. Introducing new avenues of collective care practices between communities. Food performances will help us map bodies engaging with ingredients in a genderless environment to cultivate and design tools for shared cooking, laying the groundwork for research on collective kitchen prototypes.
“Language can determine things only by spatializing.” - Hilan Bensusan
Methods of Dematerializing food - multicultural sent based cooking
Multicultural Collective Kitchens : Collective, genderless kitchen atmospheres that reframe foodscapes within multicultural contexts, encouraging people to come together and cook for one another, regardless of gender or race, in pursuit of an egalitarian domestic future. Collective forms of labor practices in kitchen typology in New York exploring multiculturalism and storytelling through food and shared gender reciprocity through design.
The expressions “boundary object” and “boundary concept” as objects or concepts shared by a number of stakeholders or knowledge groups, which are plastic enough to contain radically different meanings for each group while also immutable enough to allow communication, cooperation, and common projects between them. (scholars in science studies—through the influential analysis of Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer and its development by Ilana Löwy)
Mapping Queer Multitudes
Up until now the form-giving subject has always been male. And this structure has, unbeknownst to itself, clearly given form to culture, and to the history of ideas. They are not neuter.
Mapping of trans bodies: transgender bodies, gounis garous, cyborgs, butch women, lesbian gays
it is faces that choose their subjects
Certain social formations need face, and also landscape, its loops, and its repetitions.
Ai based communal kitchens framework provides spaces where people can come together and nourish each other, thereby ungendering the space of the kitchen. By forging contemporary forms of labor around food, this approach seeks to dematerialize food through multicultural scent-based cooking and exploring spices landscapes (which are sourced from all parts of the world) in grocery stores around New York City.
Link to research : https://unownspace.com/Programming-Collectivity