Have you ever enjoyed a meal together with friends and strangers alike?
Can you imagine a square hosting a big table that neighbours share for dinner in summer nights?
Is it possible to raise awareness and fight food waste by launching a public banquet prepared out of leftovers?
In recent years numerous initiatives worldwide have arisen using food to challenge the way people engage in urban public spaces. Combining various backgrounds such as art, architecture, activism or anthropology, this interventions have been put into practice without any commercial purpose but holding multiple intentions that range from enjoyment and celebration to education or political protest.
City Cook Book is a collection of initiatives enhancing public spaces by bringing people together through food culture. It aims to explore how food can be an effective tool to both transform our common spaces into sites for encounter and social interaction, as well as to engage with larger issues that shape our everyday urban life. Through its digital platform and its print-it-yourself publication, City Cook Book intents to visualize this phenomena, reflect upon it and inspire other initiatives.
contact[at]citycookbook.org
City Cook Book is a non-profit initiative developed by Claudia Sánchez and Íñigo Cornago.
This web and publication has been designed by ereslomastumas and programmed by Andrés Sedano.
Proyecto financiado por Ayudas Creación Injuve
Project funded by Ayudas Creación Injuve
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{the EAT project } is a food based public participatory project. It is an exploration and a study in understanding that food goes beyond just providing sustenance. Under it run different projects which use food & design as an aid to research and grasp complex topics such as migration, nostalgia, cultural identities and social interactions. The current active project EAT The World Series organizes monthly food workshops open to any 20 participants at the cultural center in Umeå.
Originally from Pakistan, Leena holds a Masters degree in sustainable architectural design. Born and brought up in Karachi, and having spent a few formative years growing up in Damascus, Syria, Leena is no stranger to struggling with identity in the midst of shuttling between vastly different cultures. She is the creator of {the EAT project}, a project that strives to understand and work with cultural identity, migration & oral history through food and design. She is currently practicing as an interior architect as well as working on the practice-based book project ‘EAT Umeå | EAT The World Series’.