Friday, June 12 — Bean Archives Lunch Experience: The Exchange.

by Studio H & Juwan Beyers Food Design

Friday, June 12 — Lunch experience

(part of the Beans & Bloom bean festival)

Bean Archives: The Exchange
by Studio H & Juwan Beyers Food Design

A lunch as an archive, as a conversation, as a medium of exchange.

You take a seat at a living library of South African beans. The table becomes a system where beans serve as currency, and where stories of colonial history, migration, and food culture come to life.

What you share determines what you receive.

Includes:
– Introduction by Marije Vogelzang
– Admission to the Beans & Bloom microfestival
– Oral Oracle installation
– Silent Garden guided tour
– Bean art and candy shop

Studio H is an award-winning food design studio based in Cape Town. The studio operates at the intersection of food, design, and culture and has established itself as a leading voice in food design in South Africa, with work featured internationally at festivals, exhibitions, and museums. In February, they hosted a Trend Seminar Lunch for Li Edelkoort in Cape Town; now you can experience their food design right here in Dordrecht!

Join us for the Bean Archives Lunch on Friday, June 12—a living library of South African beans. On the festival day, Sunday, June 14, you can also shell your own beans with Hannerie and send them via her Bean Mail design.

Juwan Beyers Food Design is a Cape Town-based practice that operates at the intersection of food, design, and experience. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Juwan creates carefully curated food experiences that position food as a multisensory medium for storytelling, engagement, and connection. With a strong focus on materiality and craftsmanship, Juwan approaches food as both a medium and a message, designing experiences that are as thoughtful as they are memorable.

Together with Hannerie Visser, he is hosting the Bean Archives Lunch on Friday, June 12, and on the festival day, Sunday, June 14, you can try out his tableware made from bean cans and sample his grandmother’s secret bean soup recipe.