The Future of Industrial Wheat

↗ 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 Future of Industrial Wheat

March 2024

“In 2024 I find myself stuck with all these bags of industrial wheat flour in my house. I figure everyone hates it, as it’s too processed for consumption. But instead of hating it, I start celebrating them. The day after I started looking for different ways of repurposing. Looking at my garden sparked the idea of feeding the few nutrients that are left in this flour back to the soil. Next, I’m going around the house and started noticing different properties. Now I can fill the gap in the wall of our student house. And instead of throwing the paper packaging, I use this now as my notebook for writing down future ideas about my current wheat obsession…”

At the base of this project is my intolerance for whole wheat flour. I imagined a world where everyone has grown intolerant to this now highly genetically modified wheat and started to repurpose it as a future material.

speculative design, food intolerance, alternating purpose flour, future materials

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