Immuna Kitchens is an app designed to highlight Immuna’s kitchens as a piece of architecture and to create a dialogue between visitors and locals through the activity of cooking together, through food, or even just through finding a kitchen. The app is designed to be as ‘blind’ as possible, providing only the most necessary information to a visitor in order for one to find one’s destination – one of the kitchens – and to create as much awareness of one’s surroundings, the village, and the people as possible. It is meant as a first impulse towards encountering and sharing experiences.
How it works: The visitor picks a kitchen from the interface. The app then only shows an arrow which points to where the kitchen is located. The closer one gets to the kitchen, the more information one gets about the architecture of the kitchen in order to create an image in the visitor’s head that helps him/her find the kitchen. The app also gives general information about the different roles of men and women in the village in terms of how they contribute to feeding their families, building the kitchens and ovens, and cooking. Once the kitchen is found, the visitor has the opportunity to cook with the family and/or share a meal. The visitor may contribute in whatever way s/he and the family mutually agree upon.
