My Master’s thesis, Speculative (food) design histories, re-imagines what the world of food could have looked like and speculates about the future of food. This project is currently on exhibit at the Cube Design Museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands.

There is a collective helplessness about the way food looks today. In this project I created alternate food realities - 3 historical and 1 in the future - to illuminate the agency we have to create a desirable future. My goal was to provoke museum visitors to reflect on their own food practices and behaviors.

The outcome of this project was four sets of artifacts, fictional stories and videos - set at four different points in time. Each artifacts suggests a world where a higher baseline understanding of science impacts food practices. The artifacts are a microbial terrarium, cellulase, blood posters and Evolufood. All the artifacts reflect the technology and design language of their periods. The three historical artifacts were presented to museum visitors as parafiction, or historical reality. When the truth was revealed at the end of the exhibit, we learned that ~90% of museum visitors bought into the fiction and wondered, why didn’t history run this course?