Fork in the Road

Fork In The Road was a collaboration between artist Morvern Odling and The Edinburgh Tool Library and is a new creative research project exploring the relationships between community and food by re-imagining where kitchens can be found in Edinburgh.

This project initially came to life in Madrid in 2015, where Morvern Odling, Yannick Roels and Suraia Abud came together at design futures event Interactivos at the Media-Lab Prado and designed initial prototypes.

In July 2017, co-design workshops were held to create a second iteration of the original designs made in Madrid in 2015. These new plans have been designed for Edinburgh’s environment and communities, influenced by the knowledge gained from the co-design event.

Led by Morvern Odling in Edinburgh, Fork in the Road is an open source project and all of the designs and knowledge from the community engagement discussions will be made available under its open source licence.

These compact mobile kitchen units are towed by bikes, and during the summer of 2018 they have been resident in different community spaces to engage people in their environment; through meals, creative workshops, collaborative ‘Mutual Memory’ publications and culinary bicycling adventures. The next phase of the project will be researching the impact in the community and creatively documenting the project.

photos courtesy of  Edinburgh Tool Library

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