Teaching Food Thinking

studio_lovell was invited to co-design an immersive dining experience and give a keynote talk at the Hotelschool The Hague for their Future of Food course in Amsterdam. We talked about learning to ask better questions and understanding ingredients as expressions of systems. And about all the different values expressed in the words used to talk about food and how changing some of those words can help change systems, by design. And we collaborated with tutors Joost de Vos and Robert Gallicano to develop a series of dishes in the multi-course dinner revolving around rocks and minerals – from cooking and baking with stones and edible clays to using pebbles as flavour vehicles and metaphors. We also talked about learning to ask better questions and understanding ingredients as expressions of systems. And about all the different values expressed in the words used to talk about food and how changing some of those words can help change systems, by design.