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Gabriela Aquije, Mayar El Bakry

http://www.mayar.ch

Zürich (CH), Dessau (DE)
Mayar El Bakry is a Swiss-Egyptian designer based in Zurich. Currently, she’s focusing on food and cooking as a means to create spaces of discourses, exchange and communal reflection. Gabriela Aquije is a Peruvian Architect and Design researcher from Lima, Peru, currently based in Germany. Through a critical space practice, she designs within the public realm, its actors, cultural material, and infrastructures.

Call for ideas 2021

Cocinas Alterinas


kitchens as spaces of care, communing and resistance.

Cocinas Alterinas


kitchens as spaces of care, communing and resistance.
Cocinas Alterinas (Alter-kitchens) explores the endless possibilities of kitchens as spaces of care, resilience and resistance.
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Type of project
  • New alliances

Covid-19 forced us to reconfigure our relationships to private spaces. As Designers, we sought refuge in our kitchens. Isolation and bodily distance, triggered us to open up the kitchen’s spatial boundaries through digital mediums to (re-)connect with each other. Cooking and eating together became a caring act of resistance. It allowed for intimate interaction in a very distanced reality. This renewed commensality connects our ‘modular kitchens’ beyond the framed mass production and calls out for a redesign. It urges us to reclaim, repurpose, and reimagine modularity with care. By looking at four specific elements – heat, water, food, and labor we want to collectively explore and design the modular kitchen otherwise.
This four-part activist communal embodied experiment series explores the themes of critical social infrastructure and different modes of living. In short, we proposes digital, hybrid, and site-specific intervention in order to reclaim the modular kitchen anew.


1. Modular kitchen landscape

2. Digital Networks of Care

3. Reclaiming the modular kitchens

Cocinas Alterinas


kitchens as spaces of care, communing and resistance.

Cocinas Alterinas


kitchens as spaces of care, communing and resistance.
Cocinas Alterinas (Alter-kitchens) explores the endless possibilities of kitchens as spaces of care, resilience and resistance.
File under
Type of project
  • New alliances

Covid-19 forced us to reconfigure our relationships to private spaces. As Designers, we sought refuge in our kitchens. Isolation and bodily distance, triggered us to open up the kitchen’s spatial boundaries through digital mediums to (re-)connect with each other. Cooking and eating together became a caring act of resistance. It allowed for intimate interaction in a very distanced reality. This renewed commensality connects our ‘modular kitchens’ beyond the framed mass production and calls out for a redesign. It urges us to reclaim, repurpose, and reimagine modularity with care. By looking at four specific elements – heat, water, food, and labor we want to collectively explore and design the modular kitchen otherwise.
This four-part activist communal embodied experiment series explores the themes of critical social infrastructure and different modes of living. In short, we proposes digital, hybrid, and site-specific intervention in order to reclaim the modular kitchen anew.


1. Modular kitchen landscape

2. Digital Networks of Care

3. Reclaiming the modular kitchens


Idea by

Gabriela Aquije, Mayar El Bakry
Zürich (CH), Dessau (DE)
Mayar El Bakry is a Swiss-Egyptian designer based in Zurich. Currently, she’s focusing on food and cooking as a means to create spaces of discourses, exchange and communal reflection. Gabriela Aquije is a Peruvian Architect and Design researcher from Lima, Peru, currently based in Germany. Through a critical space practice, she designs within the public realm, its actors, cultural material, and infrastructures.