Technology & education · Operating venture
Innovation Kitchen — learning, making and working together
A technology hub with a school, working laboratories, coworking and everyday hospitality.
I developed Innovation Kitchen as a place where education, technology businesses and everyday working life could support one another.
Innovation Kitchen connected additive manufacturing and 3D technologies with education and working life. A democratic school occupied the second floor; coworking occupied the fourth. Resident teams worked in ceramic 3D printing, implant research, body scanning and digital documentation of the city.
The development proposition was to bring pupils, entrepreneurs and technical teams into the same environment. Space, resident mix, food provision and public programming were treated as parts of the operating product.
Kwambio, A.D.A.M., 3DLOOK and Pixelated Realities are examples of the resident companies. Their technologies and achievements belong to those companies. Sidi Room provided the hub’s everyday café and school food offer.
In motion
Innovation Kitchen, Odesa — hub presentation from the official Innovation Kitchen & Michael Bagan channel. Historical programme, 2020–2022; original-language audio.
Sexy Salad — a conversation over food
Sexy Salad with Yevhen Sarantsov. Official Innovation Kitchen & Michael Bagan channel; historical programme, 2020–2022. Original-language interview, approximately 31 minutes.
The lecture space
Лекторій by MALTSEV — film by MALTSEV, Odesa. Innovation Kitchen project archive.
A robot at Innovation Kitchen
Innovation Kitchen’s original short film: Michael Bagan and a robot lighting his cigar. Published on the hub’s own channel; original soundtrack. Robotics by the resident team.
Project credits
Wall and lettering: Yana. Coworking mural: Bios (@bios.lines). Resident and project archive photography.