Building processes Nr. 2

Design a mobile collective kitchen to enhance the conviviality of the site

The prototypes produced during the first workshop in France in May 2022 were used as a starting point for a new reflection, which leads to the reorganization of the central stationary kitchen and the creation of a mobile kitchen

As a primary objectives for this second workshop in France, this new kitchen will improve the conditions in which users are received and used by the various players at Place des Possibles, and will enable them to imagine going beyond their walls to organise convivial events in the public space.

We proposed to all the participants involved in the construction to use a maximum of recycled materials to create these 2 modules. Then we managed to design and build with several recycled materials from the site: old metal pipes, wooden panels and old fabrics.

Constructive specifications

  • Mobility and modularity of built devices
  • Responding to identified uses: informing – welcoming – tidying – cooking
  • Working with an identical set of materials for each of the small groups

Pedagogical objectives

  • Co-design : finalising a co-design drawing
  • Check construction principles
  • Build and test these new mobile devices

Students feedbacks

“What do you think you learnt, discovered or experienced during this week?

“Construction and materials methods, Communication, Critical thinking, Cooking, Interpersonal skills among groups”

“trusting my own thoughts and to equally trust other people’s thoughts”

“the international point of view mixed with the life time is precious. and the opportunity to do, and discuss about how and why also. that creat a different educational wich i like very much”

“I learned the method of solving problems between project and reality”

“Working with new materials i’ve never used before at university and learning how to integrate other approaches coming from different countries”

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