Project Line
Mobile Kitchens
A long-term project exploring how cooking infrastructure can move, adapt and support public use.
Mobile Kitchens brings together a series of cooking setups developed since 2014 for different partners, sites and ways of working. Rather than one fixed object, it evolves through distinct versions that keep testing the same line of research.
Period
2014 - ongoing
Latest version
Mobile Kitchens for Elegast vzw
Focus
Transportable cooking setups for collective use
2025
Latest version
The latest version was developed for Elegast vzw as a transportable setup for neighbourhood-based cooking and public use. It builds on earlier versions while refining towing, storage, serving and work surfaces into a clearer overall system. Light enough to move through the city, it works as shared infrastructure that can arrive, open and support activity on site.
Selected views
Versions
Read backward from the current build, the earlier versions show how the project changed through different partners, places and working conditions.
Cultureghem · Brussels
Mobile Kitchens v6
Developed with Cultureghem in Brussels, this version consolidated the project into a more compact modular fleet. It sharpened how the kitchens could arrive, open and operate across repeated street-based programmes.
cultural centres of de Westrand
Mobile Kitchens v5
This version was developed for the cultural centres of de Westrand. It adapted the project to a new commissioning context and brought the trailer logic into a clearer working and serving configuration.
Montevideo
Mobile Kitchens v4
This version emerged from a residency in Montevideo, Uruguay, centred on an intensive making process around tools for promoting healthy food in a large local market. It tested how the project could shift to another city and another food context while remaining direct and usable.
Cultureghem · Brussels
Mobile Kitchens v3
A more robust and upgraded version of v1, realised through a crowdfunding campaign. It moved the project toward a sturdier everyday tool and is still in regular use today.
Cocinar Madrid · Madrid
Mobile Kitchens v2
Developed during a ten-day residency in Madrid with a group of designers, this version explored bicycle-trailer kitchens adapted to the city and its markets. It focused on light transport and direct deployment in public space.
Cultureghem · Brussels
Mobile Kitchens v1
The first version, developed with Cultureghem, established the project’s basic question: how a kitchen could be built as something mobile, open and usable in the street.
What carries through
Across its different versions, Mobile Kitchens keeps returning to the same basics: mobility, collective use, transportable construction and adaptation to context. What changes is the partner, the setting and the way the kitchen needs to work once it arrives.
The project develops through use. Each version carries something forward while making the next adjustment more precise.