OPEN GARDEN X OPEN KITCHEN X NIEUWE INSTITUUT – REGENERATIVE URBAN FOODSCAPES
Together with Nieuwe Instituut, the Open Garden and the Open Kitchen hosted a relational mapping workshop last summer in Rotterdam exploring how local initiatives can connect and strengthen each other to build a regenerative urban foodscape in the city. In this workshop, researchers Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Pia Canales (Nieuwe Instituut), Justyna Jakubiec and Kevin Lai (Utrecht University) invited those connected to open kitchen and open garden initiatives in Rotterdam to identify possibilities for mutual support. The participants used the Zoöp method to learn how various initiatives relate to each other, and to the living world of Rotterdam. Together we have explored how the existing relations could be improved and new relations formed. This workshop concluded with a shared lunch prepared by MensaMensa, a community kitchen practice based in Rotterdam Zuid organizing collective meal-prep and providing affordable healthy food. They are part of Public Food, an advocacy for “Good Food as a Public Service” in Rotterdam.
This workshop is part of Nieuwe Instituut’s After Summer School series, an annual programme with city classes scattered across Rotterdam, inviting a wide variety of makers, thinkers and organisations sharing their methods for changing the city — by looking, listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching and designing differently.
