Collective Care | Anna Puigjaner
Professor Anna Puigjaner, co-founder of Barcelona based architecture studio MAIO, will share her approach to creating new architectural models for the practice of collective living and care that are re-imagining how we live.
Puigjaner will present new models for collective living and care practices that take as their starting point, collective kitchens, shared social space and service areas. Through her design practice she believes that collective life is ‘deeply understood as a tool for social transformation’ and can be delivered through the re-imagination of domestic space. Puigjaner will be joined by the Powerhouse’s Xinyi Lim for a discussion on their shared commitment to the importance of collective living.
Speakers
Professor Anna Puigjaner is an architect, researcher and co-founder of MAIO, an architectural office based in Barcelona specialising in spatial systems that evolve over time. MAIO has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Guggenheim Bilbao, the Venice Biennale and the Chicago Architecture Biennale. Her research project Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare was awarded a Harvard Graduate School of Design Wheelwright Prize. She is currently Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich.
Xinyi Lim (林心仪) is the Program Manager, Vitocco Kitchen, Powerhouse Parramatta. The Vitocco Kitchen will be a 200-seat demonstration kitchen in the new Powerhouse Parramatta, which will bring together leading chefs and food producers from across Australia and around the world to educate and inspire communities and audiences. Her exploration of the food industry has seen her cooking in several notable kitchens in New York, Mexico City and Sydney, including Firedoor, OzHarvest Refettorio and as opening head chef of Café Freda’s, as well as freelancing as a food consultant and food stylist. Through her ongoing venture, Megafauna, she uses food as an artistic tool for social justice, building community and the exploration of culture and heritage.
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