Kitchen Research Unit members
Meet the members, researchers and academics involved in the Kitchen Research Unit (KRU).
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Director: Laura Cuch
Laura Cuch is a cultural geographer and visual artist engaging with sociocultural food issues, material practices, migration, as well as urban (religious) communities and identities, at the intersections of cultural geography, sociology, and media and cultural studies.
Her interests in food range from spaces of commensality, including public and community meals (such as street parties, calçotades and public Iftars), community and soup kitchens, citizen-led initiatives that promote alternative food systems, as well as (interfaith) practices of solidarity and social inclusion though food.
Director: Michael Guggenheim
Michael Guggenheim is a sociologist and STS researcher focusing on the work of experts and their relationship to lay people in various fields such as disaster management, architecture and environmental research.
He has pioneered the use of performative experiments to engage lay people in sociological concerns. His interest in food comes from a parallel lay career as a cook and various attempts to bring his sociology to amateur cooks.
Goldsmiths members
External members
- Viktor Bedö, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures in Basel
- Marina Monsonís, The Kitchen at MACBA