We are very happy to announce that cocook project has been selected to participate in Eme3 2012. The  topic of this edition is “Bottop-up” and the category we are participating is “Share-it”. The festival will be held in Barcelona form June 28th to July 1st in COAC and the exhibition will remain open until July 15th.

We’ll keep you updated with further details.

Next Saturday 18.02.12 in Medialab Prado [C/Alameda, 15 Madrid] Barcamp Ciudad y procomún an unconference on city commons is being held.

Between 11:00 and 14:30 under the topic “Urban actions” Íñigo Cornago will make a short presentation on cocook project.

You can follow the event on streaming

Text on cocook for Design Process Studio [KTH] 

COCOOK

In the new neighbourhoods recently built or planned in Stockholm, there is an aim to create a new piece of the city just by reproducing its image and following the market economy. However, this process has very little to do with the dynamics that have been building the city over the years. By performing direct interventions in rarely used public spaces of these new areas, cocook project is trying to define how they work and learn something from them.

 The event is considered on the same level as the space. It consists in a meal in which participants cook and eat together. A spot in the city is used as the support of the temporary public space created by the event. Everybody can join just by bringing a certain amount of an ingredient that will be added to an open recipe. Although the cocook events operate in a critical level, they are based on the fun that people involved have.

In order that the event finally takes place, contingency and economy become the main issues that rule the design process. Thus the tools used to deal with architecture are reconsidered as well. The object and its precise description are no longer important so vector based software is replaced with collage techniques. Plans, sections and details are substituted for a DIY kit. A list of items needed, tips on getting them and the assembly process description become the key documents to communicate the project. Instead of trying to show the life of a proposed space by adding people figures from an existing library to a realistic render image, participants figures are cut off from the event pictures and turned into paper dolls in order to re-experience the event in a performative way.

INIGO CORNAGO BONAL (SP)

‘cocook première’ is the début event of cocook movement. 
It consists in an open.source lunch that we will cook and eat together.
The public space we are using this time is the crane in the Hammarby sjöstad waterfront. 

For joining you need a certain amount of 3 ingredients that we’ll join in a
2.0 recipy:
- One for a SALAD
- One for a pasta SAUCE
- One YOGHURT 

You should also bring some drinks too
[*]We should be sensitive about alcoholic drinks as we are using public space

This map locate places in Stockholm where cocook events are taking [has taken] place

Ver cocook STHLM en un mapa más grande

Tonight  we are testing the beta version of our cocookitchen. The event consist in an open.source dinner that we will cook and eat together. We will also drink. We are meeting at 19.00 in the triangular shared space in the 5th floor at Arkitekturhögskolan [KTH]

What do you need? A certain amount of an ingredent for a Salad and of an ingredient for a pasta sauce. We will decide how to join it at the very moment of (co)cook it. You should bring some drinks too. Of course you are free to come with some company

Looking foward to meeting you