Public Kitchen, 2016 &
Pubic Kitchen(the alternative social space), 2016
Public Kitchen Hobart, 2016
Phoebe Adams designed and constructed the standing dining trestle table legs for inside the brickworks.
Text From School of Creative Arts & Media News
"A Public Kitchen will be held in Hobart today (Friday, 15 April) to inspire social justice through re-imagining how public infrastructures can help improve our way of life.
The Kitchen is designed to challenge social norms and attitudes towards public spaces and social and food justice. It poses the question: "If kitchens were public, like libraries or schools, how could they rearrange social life?"
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The Public Kitchen project is being co-led by Kenneth Bailey, Urban Designer and co-founder of US-based initiative ds4si (the Design Studio for Social Intervention), alongside Dorita Hannah, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Tasmania, and Maria Lurighi from the Conservatorium of Music.
Mr Bailey is a Visiting Scholar with the Tasmanian College of the Arts (TCotA) and the Creative Exchange Institute (CxI).
In 2005 he co-founded ds4si in a bid to change how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed.
The initiative encourages the use of spaces where activists, artists, academics and the larger public can come together to imagine new approaches to social change and alternative angles to address complex social issues.
The Public Kitchen is an example of one space and is a model developed by ds4si to create and expand the "social room" idea in urban environments."
Pubic Kitchen was set up in the alley way beside the swanky set up in the Brickworks. It was an alternative event for those who might be put off by the MONAesque, sWANKY, exclusivity next door. I personally think Ken Bailey was more impressed with the Pubic Kitchen social space created by drag kings Dazza and Bazza (Barry Bothways), but you'd have to ask him to be sure. Special Thanks to partner in crime Dee Taylor Graham.
