Bring meaning
to your food

It’s hard to know where we’re going if we don’t know where we’ve been.

We’ll kick off with a bit of Food Design History and a big picture of all that it entails.

It’s a great way to get your wheels turning about the possibilities!

Food is the perfect tool to engage people’s senses on a primal level.

How can we use creative thinking to engage our senses in unexpected ways? How can we give meaning to what we experience? What are the results of engaging with people through food?

Food has always been at the center of human relationships – be it hunting together or gathering around the table.

We’ll examine the many layers, rituals, and traditions that exist between humans and their connections to each other through food and work to design ways to bring these ideas into the modern world.

Food plays a pivotal role in our history and in our day-to-day lives. We’ll examine how it’s helped shape our past and present and can potentially inspire our food’s future.

Consider all the people that have been, are, and will be on earth and that food has been the reason for wars, the bringer of peace, and the source of life.

How can we build new food culture?

The food we eat and the way we eat it will not be the food of our future.

Climate change, overpopulation, and the limits of non-renewable resources will all affect our food’s future.

Adding in the fact that mankind is forever changing our habits and lives, we will need to find a way to contribute to a more healthy and intelligent connection to our future food.

Food presents some of our greatest paradoxes! We need to eat, but not too much. We love some animals, but happily eat others.

We’ll dig deep into the human psyche and look at how food drives us and our behaviour and ponder how we can use our knowledge to create environments that lead people to naturally choose what’s right for them.

Food is another raw material that can be converted into endless things.

We’ll discuss new ideas of what we can create as well as how to use waste-streams from food production to create valuable items and less waste.

What we eat determines our landscape, our city planning, and even our biodiversity.

Can we design with nature or is there a way to create more appreciation for what we already have?

We’ll examine how creative thinking can be applied to these larger systems and how to approach it in practical ways.

It may seem unorthodox to discuss ethics in a creative process, but it’s imperative to consider ethics when designing solutions.

We want to free our minds and explore without limits at the same time that we create results that are aligned with our inner, ethical compass.

We’ll look at the many angles of this balancing act.