Kitchen Flex

About Kitchen Flex

Kitchen Flex is a podcast, archive, space and dialogue that aims to deconstruct and re-construct the workings of architecture, at the same time. Descending directly from the project: Annotations (2023) (https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/minus-one/annotations) which began at interrupting the modernist trajectory of architecture to re-story, re-frame, and re-interpret the built environment through a pre-colonial lens—Kitchen Flex extends the pre-colonial into the decolonial to bring to surface the immaterialities of architecture and world building. Immaterialities such as storytelling, mythologies, spirituality, sound and embodiment which were central to pre-colonial African and Indigenous ways of building to the point that the immaterial became material—the word becomes world. In conversation with Victoria, guests are invited into an embodied dialogue to discuss these immaterialities and world-building potentials. It is no longer enough to critique but to move towards dreaming, radical imagination and the ways in which re-tooling our current circumstances not only disrupts colonial infrastructures but guides us towards the sustainable, equal and just future we desire. Kitchen Flex is a rehearsal for living. It embodies the format or the methods of the global black community who are able to make place out of space, now matter where you go in the world and no matter what the circumstances are.This ability to kick it, hang out, create something out of nothing, revel in pleasures and joys, becomes a pedagogical practice. In this space we share stories, we teach our dances, we allow wisdom to transcend and we feel freedom on a deeply somatic level. We feel what freedom feels like and through that feeling, these conversations, these rehearsals—we allow freedom to take hold. Kitchen Flex Podcast Team: Host: Victoria McKenzie Producer: Thomas Tawanda Orbon Graphics and Visual Language: Martin Escalante Original Music by Giorgos Kapagogos and Dimitris Kyriakou

Publisher

Victoria McKenzie

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Dec 2024

Latest episode

19 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Mar 2025

   Episode 3: Ramon Amaro on Fugitivity, Freedom and Remembering we are already in the Body

   Dr Ramon Amaro is the Senior Researcher in Digital Culture at Nieuwe Instituut, the national institute for architecture, design and digital culture in The Netherlands. An engineer and sociologist by training, Ramon's writings, research and artistic practice emerge at the intersections of Black Study, digital culture, psychosocial study, and the critique of computational reason. In this conversation we explore embodiment as a decolonial exercise. Ramon guides us through a historical and...

2. 

   8 Jan 2025

   Episode 2: Shumi Bose on Giving Ourselves Permission to Navigate Unknowns, Radical Pedagogy, and Purpose Over Productivity

   Shumi Bose is an educator, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. She’s the chief editor of Koozarch and a Senior Lecturer in architectural history at Central Saint Martins, the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association and the School of Architecture at Syracuse University in London. In this conversation we explore being the historians of our childhoods and what it means to read and observe space. Shumi guides us into living purpose over prod...

3. 

   2 Dec 2024

   Episode 1: Mayis Rukel on Our Collective ‘No’, the Power of Stories and the Role of the Artist

   Mayis Rukel shares how embodying our collective 'No' and recognizing our values can empower social change through the power of stories and embodied social justice.

4. 

   2 Dec 2024

   Episode 0

   Victoria's conversation with thinkers and creators explores redefining architecture to connect building structures with systems and create spaces flowing with spiritualities and life.

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