Love food and creativity, but want to explore just more than cooking or eating?

My Introduction to Food Design course looks at food in its broadest sense, encompassing culture, science and design. 

During these classes, you will learn how to creatively use food as a medium to create artworks which communicate a variety of topics. 

All materials will be provided, please let us know of any special dietary requirements upon booking your place. For sessions two and four we recommend you bring a smartphone or camera to either create photos or short videos of your creations.

All sessions have 10-15 minute introductory session

SYLLABUS

Week One: Let’s Play. We’ll create wearables made from veg as we explore how we can use food differently to challenge our preconceptions about food.

Week Two: Playing with colour, we’ll dive into blue food to create collaged artworks and investigate why blue food is seen as weird as well as discussing anthocyanins in food.

Week Three: We’ll do some fermentation and explore transformation, salt as resistance and interspecies relationships.  

Week Four: We’ll explore the senses and create experimental artworks based on the relationship between taste and our other senses. 

Week Five: Discover gyotaku printmaking and the complexity of the paper, the medium and the connections between these.  

Week Six: Students own project on the themes of speculative futures and food systems. A prompt will be given at the beginning of the course. 

Curious?

The 6 week course will take place in Edinburgh in March 2023. Please get in touch for more information.

Booking will be available shortly..!