Cuisines de quartier. An Action-Research Project. Interview with Amélie Daems and Fanny Campion

The experience of Cuisines de Quartier in Brussels shows how neighbourhood collective kitchens can become everyday infrastructures where the right to food, inclusion, and autonomy are exercised. Emerging from a participatory action-research process, these practices bring together self-organised groups that share time, budgets, spaces, and skills to cook meals collectively for themselves and their families, fostering access to food, sociality, and well-being. The Movement is grounded in a principle of “supported autonomy”: it seeks to build a network of proximity that strengthens community-based welfare and food citizenship, while giving voice and visibility to the experiences of cook-eaters in the public sphere.