Itinerant common kitchen

Abstract

The invitation to take the cooking activity to the streets took form through the Cozinha Comum Itinerante [Itinerant Common Kitchen], an outcome of our interaction with the School of Architecture of UFMG neighborhood, which made the idea of ​​circulating this interface through other areas of the city. With the sponsorship of Rumos Itaú Cultural, we built two mobile structures that, together, form a kitchen-device for shared use between the collective and the partners of each territory, acting primarily on three axes: activation of public space, updating of culinary memories and registration/circulation of culinary knowledge of various people who inhabit the city. By constructing the Cozinha Comum Itinerante, we have created a structure that allows collective activity in many ways, especially by the spontaneous formation of groups and the consequent direct contact between the people who cook. We also chose to design a structure that generated diverse spaces open to interaction with the city's own environment, stimulating people to appropriate streets, sidewalks and urban furniture.