Migrateful Cookery School

AHMM has supported Migrateful since 2018, hosting cookery classes for staff at its London office. When Migrateful received £45,000 in funding from the Mayor of London to deliver a cookery school, AHMM offered to support the organisation by designing the new school pro bono. The new facility is a flexible cookery, teaching, and hosting space, which will act as a venue for events and a home for Migrateful.

The school is designed with a mix of fixed and reconfigurable elements from traditional kitchen facilities to mobile cooking stations. The focal point of the classroom is the large fixed kitchen workbench where workshop leaders can demonstrate the dishes. In front, 12 movable cooking stations (including two wheelchair-accessible stations) allow workshop attendees to cook along with the tutors.

A key part of the experience is to create a space where attendees and tutors can come together at the end of a lesson and enjoy the food they have prepared. A glazed door brings daylight to the space creating a new entrance and street presence for Migrateful.

The approach to materials within the space has been to build upon an existing plywood palette and celebrate cooking and eating zones through ceramic highlights. The tiling patterns are inspired by traditional rugs of Eastern and African origin.

The Migrateful Cookery School has been generously supported with materials, funding and expertise from Clerkenwell suppliers and designers. Local builder 21Construction delivered the project with care and quality. XC02 and MRG provided design services. VitrA, Domus, Zumtobel and Caro Communications assisted with sourcing fixtures and materials, and the Derwent London Community Fund also generously supported the scheme.

Annual CO2 data was not provided