The Domestic City: A Network of Dispersed Kitchen Inventories

Cooking takes up so much of our daily routines, the time it takes to do grocery shopping, wash, prepare, eat food, and wash up after is a part of every person’s daily activity. Many feminist thinkers throughout history have critiqued models of the kitchen and its standardisation as a way of regulating household labour. The Domestic City aims to create a network of the generative aspects of the kitchen and bring to the forefront alternative forms of exchange systems and care. Spaces reminiscent of preparing, washing, cooking, and eating food are taken from the kitchen and dispersed into the urban environment producing alternative economies. Once we begin to remove the kitchen from the home and disperse it into the urban environment, we can make visible the power structures of those who are cared for.