Proposing homes without cooking can be a provocation and a revolution. This is what the Catalan architect Anna Puigjaner says in her research. The kitchen is an important place for the reflection of contemporary houses; from the gender review, the location of the space house is the expression of what daily food does, whether it is a woman or place of the maid. The fusion of kitchen, living room and dining room is not a contemporary valuation solution of the kitchen, but a reduction in the area of the households to obtain a more profitable product. However, open cooking entails a redefinition of the relational space of the house, making food preparation a more social and showy action.
If we had houses without kitchens, we would also feed through community kitchens, leaving household chores like a public service. This is how New York City was organized in the 1929 crisis to address the need for housing. In some territories of the planet, Québec, Mexico, Lima, Singapore. Organized by governments or arising from the population, community kitchens can assume the feeding of a neighborhood, with low-priced meals with local products, replacing the home kitchen with the neighborhood kitchens.
A small contribution to the reflection of the strike of 30 November. In Japan there is a boom in codomo community kitchens which, in addition to feeding, play a role of community surveillance. The community kitchens initiative was part of a team of women and retired cooks. The association built a large kitchen and table in the neighborhood and, aware that many children in the neighborhood spent the afternoon alone and undernourished, were invited to meet at the round table in the afternoon to expand knowledge, feed and cooperate. This initiative of community surveillance revolutionizes the life of the neighborhood, asks for the kitchen function of the house and opens a way to the conflict of multiple aspects of care.