Cocina Colaboratorio

Cocina Colaboratorio

Cocina Colaboratorio is an ongoing mobile and on-site collective that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities. Initiated as a response to the lack of connection between disciplines that are key for new alternatives towards more sustain­able and just futures. Together, they create space for trans-disciplinary communities to grow and take action, by sharing and cooking futures together. Since 2020, it has developed long-term community-based projects in Xochimilco (Mexico City), Santo Domingo Tomaltepec (Oaxaca), and Loma Bonita (Chiapas) through arenas of exchange experimentation: the Living Biocultural Archive, the Experimental Plot, the Kitchen Lab, Community Chroniclers, and Radio Cocina Colaboratorio. Their work explores biocultural memory, food sovereignty, territorial regeneration, and collective action through participatory research, artistic practice, and public programming. The collective has presented its work internationally at Documenta Fifteen, nGbK Berlin, and Delfina Foundation, and has received awards including the Imagining Futures Prize, the Do-It-Together Architecture Global Challenge, and the William Bullock Award for Critical Museology. Cocina Colaboratorio is part of the Green Art Lab Alliance and the Food Art Research Network.