Junk: The Future of Food Bachelor of Spatial Design Design MADA Now 2022

Samuel Dietrich

I have always been captivated by Science Fiction and Fantasy. Envisioning the futures and the stories that exist within them allows you to escape, but also respond to and critique current circumstances. Upon realising the importance of spatial design within film, literature, and storytelling in general, resources for inspiration existed everywhere.

Best in Studio: ‘Future of Food’

The Feeder and The Feeding

Outside the body, out of arm's reach, food is paid little attention.

Excerpt from The New Futurist Manifesto: ‘Speed is the glue between our hands and time, our control over morality. The speed and efficiency of this new world are our chains removed to move, labour, and create. Why would we subject ourselves to the terrible slowness of eating and its repercussions, when services are capable of this process for the miniscule cost of capital and discomfort?’

Given the current trajectory of food relations, how might our consumption methods adapt to suit the ‘needs’ of future generations? In attaining efficiency, what might people be willing to sacrifice?