Why is there a cupboard in the park?

Looking at the food businesses in WaltherPark, the project began as an investigation into leftovers: what can be recovered and what risks being discarded. Within the scale of Mercato Centrale, surplus food quickly emerged as an urgent issue, often exceeding the capacity of businesses and local redistribution networks.

La Credenza is a recovered domestic cabinet placed in the public space between the city and the park. Traditionally associated with preservation and care, it becomes an unexpected object that invites people to stop and engage. More broadly, the project operates as a platform for transforming surplus food into something usable and shareable, shifting attention from waste to potential.

In this iteration, the recovered food is bread — one of the most common forms of food waste. Sourced from the WaltherPark context, it is transformed through fermentation into kvas, a traditional beverage, and offered to the public in liquid form in the park, bringing practices of domestic preservation back into a collective urban space.