Richard Sennett is coming to the Design Studio!
The Design Studio is hosting a Black History Month Series on Tuesdays in February:
Many thanks to our awesome presenters! Come through and be a part of it...
The Design Studio ran an installation called the Public Kitchen for Roxbury Open Studios, October 1 & 2, from 11-6pm.
What is the Public Kitchen?
As public infrastructures--hospitals, water, schools, transportation, etc--are privatized, the Public Kitchen takes a stab at going in the reverse direction.
The Public Kitchen is an installation designed to help us realize that the ways in which public infrastructures can improve the quality of our lives is still a work in progress. We still have room to imagine the futures we want to create! Doing this takes experimentation and creativity. The Public Kitchen is a “productive fiction”; it’s our experimentation with a new, more vibrant social infrastructure that can:
- Challenge the public’s own feelings that “public” means poor, broken down, poorly run, and “less than” private
- Engage communities in claiming public space, the sociall and food justice
- Make a new case for public infrastructures through creating ones that don’t exist
Over 100 residents, activists and artists came for a bite, took home fresh veggies, imagined new food policies, checked out architectural sketches, and added their ideas for what's possible for a Public Kitchen!
