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Above: Beckmans College of Design Food For Thought exhibition 1 elvi Albaryak and Leonard Ekenberg/ 2 Sara Bris and Hedvig Moberg/ 3 Annabella Gustafsson and Linnea Jakobsson/ 4 Sara Bris and Hedvig Moberg

Students from the Visual Communication course at Beckmans College of Design have created an exhibition exploring the future of food. The show, titled Food For Thought, draws inspiration from research into food production, consumption and behaviours by the Beijer Institute.

Held at Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm until 21 April, Food For Thought demonstrates how visual communication can make complex research findings more accessible to the general public.



Selvi Albaryak and Leonard Ekenberg collaborated on their Honest Packaging project which seeks to make consumers more informed about where brands food and packaging comes from. The pair explain:  'If you enter a grocery store today there are thousands of different brands and packages, all created to be more enticing than the next. But how would the consumer be influenced if the packages were entirely honest with its content and climate impact? The new packaging design illustrates Malin Jonell’s research about how the interplay between market and consumer can drive positive change for the climate'.

A Meal With The Future by Sara Bris and Hedvig Moberg is an installation that allows viewers to share dinner with someone from the future and listen to their thoughts on how the food industry has changed over time. Their project takes note from Patrik Henriksson’s research on food production of the future.



Annabella Gustafsson and Linnea Jakobsson's The Future Shopping Basket helps consumers choose what they need to eat: 'The shopping basket of the future is a suggestion of a new design that works just like the pedagogical plate model. By dividing the basket proportionally, in line with the EAT-Lancet Commission's recommendations, the consumer can already in the grocery store see how our habits need to change. Here, for example, the compartment for fruit and vegetables consists of 50% of the basket surface, while red meat has an almost non-existent place.'

Participating students are: Alexander Peri, Alva Nylander, Annabella Gustafsson, Clémentine Berglund, Eric Rösmark, Hedvig Moberg, Joel Eriksson, Jonna Zeitler, Leonard Ekenberg, Linnéa Jakobsson, Maja Schein, Markus Bergh, Sara Solén, Sara Bris and Selvi Albayrak.

Learn more about Beckmans College of Design from their website and To visit Food For Thought, you must pre-book a ticket. Click here to learn more