The project aims to enhance community cohesion and change the current unsustainable management of food waste. The continued arrival of large groups of visitors and international students into Edinburgh has made many communities into temporary settlements. With large communities made up of individuals or families with loose or fragmented relationships, each one is an island. There is a need to stabilise neighbourhoods and to create transitional spaces between home and public space: a community space. The project uses the design of interior spaces to generate warm neighbourhoods and promote wider communication and understanding between different cultures, creating a sense of community belonging.
Bringing families and individuals together, my project explores a community food space which gives a chance to change the situation of nearly expired food, accelerate food consumption and reduce food waste through a series of instructional cooking activities in the community kitchen, where an open atmosphere of and generosity in sharing will be established.
