CITYKITCHEN

Monthly seminars and public working meetings.
Citykitchen aims to generate a new way of building cities based on collaboration between the people, businesses, public agencies and professionals from different fields.   Various citizens' associations focus their efforts on regenerating neighbourhood spaces through artistic creation and cultural development. Such citizen initiatives have given rise to a vast array of excellent, disseminated practices, often unconnected to each other, which have yet to crystallise in a common methodology that is able to grow around a collective know-how and interrelate all these experiences through a shared purpose.   Citykitchen is forging ahead with different processes for collating these experiences, such as the process instigated by Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas (Citizen Initiative Nursery), in order to reflect on possible methodology tools for collective construction and clearly defined frameworks for dialogue between cultural, social and administrative actors. Through a series of seminars and public working meetings, it proposes that the current processes and mechanisms should be looked into. They seek to pinpoint the issues and barriers currently faced by citizen initiatives and to reflect on a possible protocol that facilitates their development and supports such citizen-based processes for managing public spaces.   Over the last twelve months, it has taken part in talks and initiatives organised by the citizen town-planning collective known as La Mesa (The Table). As result of these talks, we can now announce the launch of a series of meetings between citizen collectives and technical professionals from Madrid City Council.