Starting June 16th 2026 - online!

When the days are long and the world feels full of inspiration, it’s the perfect time to dive deep into imagination.

The Summer School is an intensive, hands-on program where you will create your own conceptual dinner from scratch. Over ten sessions (2 hours each, 17:00–19:00 CET), with a full integration week halfway through, you’ll get plenty of personal guidance from Marije Vogelzang to refine your ideas.

Together you’ll explore food as a language, a tool for storytelling, and a medium for design. You will experiment, play, and prototype — stretching your ideas beyond taste and into the realm of emotion, ritual, and philosophy.

By the end, you will have a fully developed concept ready to be brought to life, a small portfolio of your process, and a completely new way of looking at food — and yourself as a creator. The Summer School is not about recipes — it is about creating experiences that move people, including yourself.

In the Summer school, Marije takes you by the hand and guides you through her Vogelzang Method — a step-by-step yet deeply intuitive way to design a conceptual dinner.

You’ll begin with the spark of an idea and learn how to feed it: through research, sensory experiments, and playful prototyping.

You’ll explore the psychology of the eater — why people lick their fingers, hesitate, blush, or look away — and learn how to weave emotion, storytelling, and presentation into an edible experience. Along the way, you’ll also discover how a conceptual dinner can become more than art — how it can sustain you financially, intellectually, and emotionally.

But the real treasure is not the single dinner you’ll create; it’s the skill of creation itself. Once you’ve gone through this process, you’ll understand how to cast your own net — to fish for meaning, form, and flavor — again and again, turning your ideas into ever more surprising and heartfelt experiences.