Classes

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It’s that day you’ve been waiting for—you’re at home, there it is, that dish you’ve been longing for, there, set up on the kitchen table. It’s the one you rarely get to enjoy but always look forward to, and as you savor it, your mind starts to wonder… whose recipe is it? How did this become your favorite meal? You start to think about the memories attached to it—how much does this meal remind you of a day in the past… or even where are most of these ingredients from, and how hard are they to find? In this two-week virtual workshop, we invite you to plan a meal for loved ones while exploring the connection between food, culture, and place. Through Mapping Recipes, you’ll delve into the kitchen table—a space where stories are passed down and identities are shared—and how it may become a site for reclaiming ancestral memory and collective identity. By the end of this class, students will use mapping as a tool to support a theoretical framework, exploring representational methods such as collage, sketches, cartography, graphs, and GIS data. Through the lens of a specific recipe, mapping will go beyond literal boundaries to represent the complexities of the USA | Mexico border. The ingredients, origins, personal stories, and cultural significance of the recipe will be mapped, followed by the presentation of an architectural narrative centered around the setting of the kitchen table. We hope you join us as we question and challenge the boundaries of culture, memory, and place, reimagining the kitchen table as a site for deeper connection and understanding.