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.

The Forager-Designer's Archive: Transmission Beyond Capture

Feb 20 2025

A Forager-Designer’s approach to embodied learning and transmission of foraging wisdom.

Thesis publication resulted from the research conducted as part of the individual thesis project in the master department Social Design
at the Design Academy Eindhoven, 2025. 

Writing, research and graphic design by me.
With supervision of Maxime Benvenuto.

writing, design research, foraging knowledge, embodied learning, wild plant wisdom, knowledge transmission, living archive, sensory design, food systems, bitter taste, ecological knowledge, ethnobotany



Last updated: August 17, 2025 © Nomi Toirkens