Slow Kitchen Communities

Barcelona, 2025

What would our kitchens and cooking habits look like without unlimited and cheap access to energy? What if we could rely only on locally available resources?

By the end of the workshop, students had designed and prototyped a collection of low-tech kitchen tools to preserve, cool, or cook food. Beyond creating “new tools,” participants also imagined the new rituals and cultural habits that could emerge around them.

Throughout the workshop—combining theory, inspiration, and hands-on practice—participants discovered slow cooking techniques and reflected on their impact on food rituals and on the habitats beyond the physical space of the kitchen.

Taking inspiration from ancient knowledge, groups designed and prototyped contemporary tools for a possible future “slow kitchen.”

We hosted this one-week workshop at IED Design School in Barcelona in February 2025.

Team. Audrey Belliot (SlowLab BCN) & Julia Steketee (Bagaceira Project).