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Workshops

Whether you prefer diving into the world of food design at home behind your screen, or standing with your hands in dough in a landmark building - Marije Vogelzang's workshops are designed to change your view of food forever.

Offline workshops offer the power of direct sensory experience, collaboration in space and the magic of physical materials.
Online workshops provide flexibility, time for reflection and access to a global community - all without travel time.

Marije teaches workshops because she believes food is much more than nutrition. It is culture, emotion, memory, language. In her workshops, you learn to look differently, taste differently and think differently. You sharpen your imagination, discover new perspectives and get practical tools to use food as a tool for wonder and change.

For curious minds, doers and thinkers.
For anyone who wants to play with food - and become wiser.

The 4-day food design retreats and online courses are taught in English.

Retreats

Deepen or get lost.
For those who really want to go in depth, there is the 4-day Food Design Retreat: an intensive creative journey in the monumental Food Design Playground in Dordrecht. You'll work on your own conceptual dining experience, with personal guidance, time to make, think and experiment.

Do you have less time but feel like a sensory reset? Then the Food Design Day is for you. In one day you will be immersed in stimulating exercises, experiments and mind shifts. You'll go home with a fresh perspective on food - and on yourself.

Live Workshops

Why live workshops are SO special (even if you have to leave the house for them).

Live workshops are not just fun because you eat together or make something beautiful. They are special for very different reasons.

Because you suddenly understand a complete stranger better by cutting a carrot together.
Because you smell a scent that flashes you back to a memory you had forgotten you had.
Because your hands are making something your head hadn't thought of yet.
Because silence falls - and exactly in that silence something happens.
Because someone next to you says something that won't let you go.
Because you use your body to think.
Because you feel the space breathing with ideas, and you are part of it.

In live workshops, something arises that you cannot schedule or digitally simulate: friction, flow, chance. The unexpected that pulls you out of your pattern. A look, a joke, a vibration in the air that gives you just that push that makes you come up with an idea you've been waiting for months.

It is not comfortable. But real. And precisely because of that: unforgettable.

we also create custom workshops for companies and creative teams. Contact us if you would like to know more.

Online courses

Online workshops are so much more than a Zoom session.

You may be sitting at home, in your own little kitchen, but in the meantime you are connecting with people from all over the world - all equally curious, equally fond of wonder, and all looking for a different way to engage with food.

What makes online workshops surprisingly special?
Not just that you can learn in pajamas. But that you get to know someone's refrigerator in Buenos Aires. That you discover how someone in Tokyo gives meaning to rice. That you feel through the screen how an idea somewhere else in the world also begins to glow in you.

Online is more intimate than you think.
You look straight at each other, without distractions. You see each other's home situation. You share something personal without having to sit next to each other. And suddenly it turns out that creativity can just travel through fiberglass.

The international community that emerges is not an "online course group. It is a network of makers, thinkers and dreamers - who stick around, collaborate, come back, feed off each other. Sometimes literally.

You come for the lessons.
But you stay for the people. And for the unexpected that does fit through a screen.

Our current range of workshops

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Retreat

12 Aug - 15 Aug

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.

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