Remarkable: Only humans have dared to play with fire. For centuries, we sat together around the fire, warmed our hands on cold nights, and began roasting, baking, and cooking. During these nights, we had endless conversations, and the hearth became the focal point of life. But where has the hearth disappeared to in recent years? Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky perhaps initiated a change, in the “Frankfurter Küche” the hearth disappeared from social life, was pushed into the corner, and withered away into a rationalized workspace for the housewife. Conversations fell silent.

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Kitchen 1: The kitchen of the future wants to return to humanity‘s first game with fire, what is more beautiful than eating under the open sky and hearing the crackling of the fire?

Kitchen 2: In the apartments you will not find a classical kitchen. Only a few opportunities to warm up tea or coffee as a protest against traditional gender roles, bourgeoisie, and narrow-mindedness, as primarily meals are cooked and eaten collectively in the community kitchens. What remains of the classical kitchen is a provisional manifestation.

Kitchen 3: The third kitchen is situated on the ground floor as a living room of the city. Inspired by the „comedores populares,“ a type of community canteen widespread in many Latin American countries, especially in Peru. Those who have the time and the passion to cook for others can do so for the entire neighbourhood.

The kitchens of our dreams can only be social kitchens.