Nomi Toirkens


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↗ Social designer, food enthusiast, bitter reclaimer and researcher working at the intersection of food, ecology, and social practices. My work explores how sensory experiences (especially taste) can reconnect us to what has been bred out, forgotten, or overlooked. Through foraging, craft and collaboration I create tools, tastings and narratives to invite new ways of relating to food, the natural world and lost knowledge.


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Let me introduce myself, now that you are here:

I am a social designer, food enthusiast, bitter reclaimer and researcher working at the intersection of food, ecology and social practices. My work explores how sensory experiences (especially taste) can reconnect us to what has been bred out, forgotten or overlooked. Through foraging, craft and collaboration I develop tools, tastings and narratives to encourage new ways of relating to food, the natural world and lost knowledge.



Education


❉ Master Social Design 
Design Academy Eindhoven
2023-2025


❉ Graphic Design
Syntra AB Antwerpen
2022-2023


❉ Bachelor Product Ontwikkeling
Faculty of Design Sciences at University of Antwerp
2018-2022


Investigations & exhibitions

❉ UPCOMING: ‘Sit with Bitter’
Graduation Show at Dutch Design Week 2025


Lost & Found Pair 
Van Abbemuseum 2025


Kiosk T//Waste
Stadtarbeid Social Design Award
Vienna Design Week 2024


Exquise Collaboration
Koelhuis Eindhoven 2023


Akward Cues
Dutch Design Week 2023


❉ Ode to the moth
Multimedia installation 
Gloei Valkenswaard 2022


❉ The Stage is Yours
Xplore Design Week (XDW) Antwerp 2021


Fallnerable
International Design Workshop Week Antwerp 2020

Last updated: August 17, 2025 © Nomi Toirkens