The workshop series “making tools for tomorrow” organized under Open Kitchen interrogates collective kitchens as metabolic vehicles embedded in urban food systems. Collective mapping exercise has been a research method that recognizes “mapping as making”, inviting participants to spatialize the foodscapes in European cities in relation to their everyday life- where things are coming from and where they are going.

Fig.1 The operation of community kitchens relies on the availability of existing infrastructures. Rotterdam’s Bospolder/Tussendijken neighborhood.

Fig.2 Mapping community kitchen as processes reveals a dynamic configuration.

Fig.3,4 Outtakes from mapping foodscape workshop in Gdansk.