COOK AND WATCH

Creating Social Situations in Public Spaces

PROJECT OVERVIEW

In 2016, in the heart of Geneva, Cook and Watch transformed the street into a space for conviviality and reflection on the boundary between the private and the public. By installing a living room, a kitchen, and a dining room in the street, the project questions our relationship to collective spaces and domestic rituals. Inspired by Richard Sennett and his reflection on the link between the inside and the outside (The Fall of Public Man), Cook and Watch asks the question: when private space opens onto the city, what happens to social dynamics and spontaneous interactions?

KEY FEATURES

1 Immersive installation: furniture, everyday objects, outdoor kitchen
2 Collective performance and interaction with the public

PROJECT IN NUMBERS

3 situations
62 slices of paella

REFERENCES

Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man – The transformation of public space and its role in social interaction.
Jane Jacobs - Death and life of Great American cities
Jan Gehl - New urban life