EXPLORE, EXPERIMENT, CREATE & SHARE.
A space for connection, play, generating ideas and sharing them with the world
A Commons Kitchen space is designed for the community to come together, explore challenges, imagine the possible, and rapidly build an idea. These prototypes are reflected on, feedback given, and the findings are freely shared with the wider world to adapt, develop and use.
These activities bring different skills, lived experiences and knowledge into one space, bringing a range of ‘ingredients’ together to create something new that can be handed over to others for iteration and improvement.
How does it work?
Explore
(20 minutes)
Connect and deepen understanding.
- Members bring their challenge statements and one is selected by the group. (For some TOGETHERHOOD spaces these challenges may be pre-selected.)
- As a group, rapid research and collective knowledge is shared
- Teams are formed
Build
(60 minutes)
Create, make and test your ideas.
- Teams ideate and select potential solution/s to build
- Lo-fi prototypes created
- Storyboards are drafted showing how prototypes can be used and responds to the challenge brief
Share
(40 minutes)
Reflect, feed back and share your findings.
- Teams present prototypes to other members
- Feed back and recommendations are shared and captured
- Members share food together and continue to imagine
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“THE COMMONS, which are creative – so unleash their potential”
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
A Creative Collective
The Commons Kitchen will focus on creativity, play and production, and will be a community-led space where sharing and openness is at its heart. If you want us to bring this activity to your space or where you live, get in touch and invite us using the button below.
Come to the Kitchen with:
- An open heart and mind
- A willingness to listen
- An energy to participate
- An approach of generosity