Public Kitchen is an intervention aimed at social and food justice, an experiment in how more vibrant public infrastructures can improve the quality of our lives. Public Kitchen challenges the public’s own feelings that “public” means poor or “less than” private. It engages communities in claiming public space through the art of cooking and cultural exchange. It makes a new case for public infrastructures through creating ones that don’t exist. Public Kitchen is spatial justice embodied, food justice embodied, it is our attempt at creating relational infrastructures, meaning spaces where social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence can thrive. In summer 2024, we partnered with the Design Studio for Social Intervention in prototyping Boston’s first semi-permanent Public Kitchen in Dorchester (Upham’s Corner). This was a free 3 month long activation open every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 3-7pm. We hosted over 25 activators in the space, ranging from Vietnamese Chefs to food rescue specialists and everything in between. We programmed this space in a variety of different ways which were co-designed by community members, meeting community members where they are at. This included; open public kitchen hours (drop in times where anybody could come and cook/teach/make a family meal), community events (food poetry slams,  “chopped-style” challenges, food justice chats), various culturally relevant cooking demos, community led activations and ample opportunities to co-design the next iteration of Public Kitchen with community members (heavy emphasis on design research).