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Peace meal

Hot Topic > Food Design

Can food bring about world peace? At least it can initiate understanding: Kamal Mouzawak, Merijn Tol, Shir Halpern and Nadia Zerouali recount their experiences.

16 Nov 11
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Food city

Opinion > Interaction Design

Food urbanist Carolyn Steel argues that cities, like people, are what they eat. She explains how food shapes the cities in which which we live.

16 Nov 11
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Smart art of eating

Opinion > Food Design

Control freaks will be reluctant to hear Brian Wansink explaining how we think we’re a lot smarter than we are when it comes to food.

16 Nov 11
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The bull is not dead

Q&A > Food Design

Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity.

16 Nov 11
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Paola Antonelli + Marion Nestle

Dialogues > Food Design

Paola Antonelli and Marion Nestle discuss the problems with the current food system and how creatives are interpreting this.

16 Nov 11
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Food fight: Dan Ariely

Design News > Food Design

Behavioural economist Dan Ariely shows that we can all design our eating habits if we understand our environment.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Amy Franceschini

Design News > Design Thinking

“Food must not be a weapon”, Amy Franceschini calls on Via Campesina’s seven principles of food sovereignty.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Jesper Johansson

Design News > Food Design

Jesper Johansson wonders if we can somehow be excited about certain foods running out, forcing us to try something new.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Marcel Dicke

Design News > Design Thinking

Entomologist Marcel Dicke promotes the idea that instead of mammals, we should be eating insects.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Christien Meindertsma

Design News > Food Design

Knowing what we eat is important for Dutch product designer Christien Meindertsma.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Shin-ichi Takemura

Design News > Design Thinking

Shin-ichi Takemura says we should rather be talking about being “creative” than “sustainable" in terms of the environment.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Peter Reinhart

Design News > Food Design

Acclaimed American baker and teacher, Peter Reinhart gives his opinion about whether foodies are gluttons.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Laetitia Wolff

Design News > Design Thinking

Laetitia Wolff believes that technology, synthetic food and GM should not be written off.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Sita Bhaumik

Design News > Food Design

It boggles artist Sita Bhaumik’s mind that contemporary famines are manmade.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Anna Maria Orru

Design News > Design Thinking

Anna Maria Orru imagines a resilient food culture inspired by nature’s way of organising itself.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Anne Mieke Eggenkamp

Design News > Food Design

Design Academy Eindhoven’s Anne Mieke Eggenkamp believes we don’t eat insects because of what it sounds like.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Frank Tjepkema

Design News > Food Design

Product designer Frank Tjepkema believes that as a consumer, you are responsible for the way the food you eat is produced.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Janina Loeve

Design News > Food Design

Janina Loeve believes that food is more significant to our social life and identity than health.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Kim O’Donnel

Design News > Food Design

Author of The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook, Kim O’Donnel thinks we should all be making more time to cook.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Bruce Nussbaum

Design News > Design Thinking

Designomics advocate Bruce Nussbaum sees food as the heart of cutting-edge design.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Han Feng

Design News > Food Design

Fashion designer Han Feng would like to design a food culture that blends all cultures in one.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Claire Renard

Design News > Product Design

Claire Renard of 5.5 designers argues that we’re constantly changing our minds about food.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: John Thackara

Design News > Design Thinking

John Thackara argues that the biggest problem with the current food system is too much innovation.

15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Vince Frost

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost.

15 Nov 11

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