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Food is magic. It is the simplest and at the same time the most complex subject there is. At Food Design Playground we have a changing programme of events. Come to lectures, pop-up dinners by food designers and radical chefs. Eat what you read at the Food Book Club or wake up radiant at an inspirational breakfast. Our programme is always new and surprising. Do you want to stay informed about the latest events? Then sign up for the newsletter.
Inspirational breakfast
Special and delicious breakfast and then a lecture by Food design pioneer Marije Vogelzang. This is a series, each time Marije highlights a different topic.
Online Summer School
a buzzing, warm summer full of inspiration. Make your own conceptual dinner step by step.
Food Design retreat
Imagine walking up the timeworn steps of a majestic, centuries-old building in the heart of Dordrecht. The air carries whispers of history, and as the doors of the Food Design Playground open, so does a new chapter in your creative journey.
Lunch with audio tasting
Eat with your hands, then travel with your mouth. MIND MOUTH is an audio tasting like no other—half meditation, half strange fairy tale.
FOOD DESIGN PIONEER
After years of thinking, writing and talking about food design, I wanted something tangible again. Something that smells like yeast, feels like dough and cracks when you bite into it. The Food Design Playground is my answer to abstraction: a physical place where ideas don't just float, but land - on a plate, in a belly, in a memory. Between 2004 and 2011, I owned the two experimental restaurants Proef in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. There I explored how food tells stories, awakens senses and questions systems. That spirit of Proef - rebellious, inquisitive, poetic - lives on in this new place. Because food is never just food. It is love, politics, culture, death and desire. And sometimes you have to be able to taste it to really understand it.
