Komuhn

The kitchen is the place of instability, of searching, of uncertainty, of unexpected mixtures, of unforeseen solutions, of adapted recipes. The kitchen is the place of creativity and recomposition. That is why it is often untidy, when it shouldn’t be, because the function of the kitchen is to live in this latency of recomposition. — José Tolentino Mendonça in Uma Beleza Que Nos Pertence (A Beauty That Belongs To Us)

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Kitchen@ is our most recent experiment designing collective social practices using the act of cooking and sharing a meal as a facilitation device for processes of discovery, learning, and connection.

Learn more: komuhn.substack.com/cooking-up-a-social-practice [Link in bio ↗]

As part of the next iteration of Fluency in Care, we’re expanding concepts that we think need new interpretations, ones that carefully align with our proposal. One of the notions that is essential to be able to express and elaborate a deeper understanding of care as a collective commitment towards more livable futures is the meaning of Human Capacity.

In the following images, you’ll find how we’re beginning to describe, and map, Human Capacity across multiple dimensions. We’d love to hear your thoughts and reflections. Contribute to the exploration on Substack and LinkedIn [Links in the comments].

Town Anywhere is a large- scale visioning process which brings people together to vision and enact a positive thriving future for their place.

During the session we will be led by Ruth Ben-Tovim in an exploration of TOWN ANYWHERE, and experience a taste of the imagination practice it uses.

If you're interested in place-based imagination there's a session today at 4pm (3pm GMT). Ask me for the link for the Zoom session.

Town Anywhere 'Town Anywhere is an extraordinary exercise. It invites us to step into the future, to reimagine and rebuild the world, and then to inhabit it. One of the mo...

We have been involved with the coworking phenomena since the very beginning and we share more or less the same history. We also started from the idea that we could make stuff together without the need to belong to the same thing and very early understood the power of spaces as a device for collaboration.

To us coworking goes hand in hand with the open source movement and the maker and hacker culture and we are as much part of it as it is part of us. It’s a way of being.

We never looked at it from the perspective of service providers, instead we see it as a sandbox for experimentation and playing (learning) with others and an open space for improbable meetings and for connecting with the world at large.

This week we are participating in two gatherings around the topic:

Research Group on Collaborative Spaces
New ways of moving, new ways of working: Collaborating between presence and absence. → Friday, 22 March - Toulouse (and online) https://rgcs-owee.org/

COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
The Geography of New Working Spaces and the Impact on the Periphery → Saturday, 23 March - Impact Hub Lisbon https://coworkportugal.co/event-23-03/

Join us!
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RGCS Les Halles de la Cartoucherie New Working Spaces Impact Hub Lisbon

The Erasmus+ PLAY/ACT project will be hosting in Évora, Portugal the International Placemaking Conference “A Place to Be”, with the intent to share diverse perspectives, experiences, and practices related to the transformation of places through civic participation and co-design processes.

Within the RUA+ placemaking project we delved into the transformation of public spaces, emphasizing their potential as platforms for community engagement, experimentation, and inter-generational connection.

Pedro, will be speaking on the first day of the conference about fostering community engagement and inter-generational bridges through shared play.
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ArteriaLab Erasmus+

What influence does a neighborhood party have on the sense of autonomy of a community?

“When we make a party in the streets of our neighborhood, we spend more time in it, we clean it, improve it and decorate it. We look at the space from a different perspective, notice things we didn’t notice before, learn new things. We are more available to interact with our neighbors, we meet new people, get to know each other better.

We take ownership and make decisions. The streets become ours.”

Read the full piece:
komuhn.org/posts/partycipation





Rua mais Largo space The Great Good Place

Dia da Abóbora – The party made by those who come What influence does a neighborhood party have on the sense of autonomy of a community? When we make a party in the streets of our neighborhood, we spend more time in it, we clean it, improve it and decorate it. We look at the space from a different perspective, notice things we didn’t notice befor...