Open Kitchen, Public House

Title

Open Kitchen, Public House: refiguring kitchen(s) in English pub as new space for constructing diasporic identity

 Author

LAI, Kevin S.F. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor

Grossman, Vanessa (mentor) ORCID 0000-0001-6301-0351
Gosseye, J. (graduation committee)
van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee)

Degree granting institution

Delft University of Technology

 Programme

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

 Date

2023-06-29

 Abstract

This thesis project studies the possibilities of designing a new space for migrants to construct their diasporic identity in a post-colonial language. The thesis is situated in the context of the mass migration from Hong Kong from 2019, specifically looking at Reading in the UK as a key arrival location. The thesis explores the design hypothesis of the alimentary-spatio-identity triangle and proposes an "open kitchen" based on intervening into an abandoned English pub in Reading to afford a new space for strange encounters for the HK migrants to construct their new belonging.

 Subject

Belonging
postcolonialism
Identity
HongKong
Migration
English pub
Kitchen
Hospitality

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Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

© 2023 Kevin S.F. LAI
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