Food Visions

Mixed-Reality Exhibit on the Future of Nutrition

A user explores the virtual environment of the kitchen of the future (© J. Duderstädt, IGZ)

Food Visions offers an immersive look into possible futures of food and provides an interactive experience of current research questions from food4future.
The mixed-reality exhibit digitally expands a real algae reactor and demonstrates how innovative indoor cultivation systems, novel foods, and science communication can work together. Visitors are immersed in three different future spaces, where alternative food sources such as algae, insects, jellyfish, and halophytes open up new perspectives on nutrition, urban cultivation, and resource use.

Food Visions brings together science, design, and digital education. The exhibit invites visitors to explore key questions about the food transition in a vivid way: What foods will play a role in the future? How can we produce food with minimal transportation distances? And how can new food systems be designed so that they are understandable, accessible, and acceptable to people?

As an interactive format, Food Visions provides easy access to current research topics from food4future. It makes complex topics visible, tangible, and open to discussion. 

A view inside the algae reactor containing red algae (Palmaria) and green algae (Ulva compressa), which are being studied as alternative food sources as part of the food4future project (© J. Duderstädt, IGZ)

Project management
Marino Gabel

Participants

Nic Rubner

Samuel Galonska

Emily Krüger

Project Context

food4future in collaboration with HTW Berlin

Portraitfoto Marino Gabel

Marino Gabel

Project Manager

Marino.Gabel@HTW-Berlin.de
T +49 30 5019-3115

Explore the Living Lab with Food Visions (Video: Marino Gabel, HTW).