The MACBA Kitchen School | Activity

When greenwashing is a real concern, we want to ensure our workshops will be respectful to the principles driving agroecological strugglesinstead of working to justify hidden extractivism or cover up other practices that are toxic for the eco-social fabric.

We invite you to join together to have an afternoon snack, cook and design strategies for the agroecological transition. The aim is to see whether the issues we have addressed until now – critique of extractivism, eco-feminism and social justice – can move beyond the walls of The Kitchen to intervene materially and specifically in the infrastructure of our institutional context. We will research the potential of this kind of infrastructural transformation, while upholding the critical essence of The Kitchen, inspired in radical pedagogy and grounded in place, and inhabiting the tensions and contradictions that come with any transformation.

There is an essential aspect of The Kitchen we work hard to preserve: communal joy, shared creativity, staying hands on, along with smell, texture and a stove to cook on. We strive to intensify hybridization with the visual arts. In this way, besides eating, cooking, and thinking and feeling together, we will further explore other forms of artistic and craft co-creation.

Yet above all, before anything else, we want to honor the act of having an afternoon snack together.