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17-25 October 2026

Embassy of Food

Hosted by

This project is now archived and was part of DDW18

The Dutch Institute of Food & Design creates a global platform for designers working with food and eating. We explore how we create food and what, why and how we eat. We show the relevance of food connected to design and design connected to food. We ask critical questions about the discipline and link designers to each other and other sectors. The DIFD brings an emerging design discipline to the next level. With our final goal in mind: to enrich eating cultures and address the societal and environmental challenges around food using design as a tool to achieve this.

EDIBLE INVISIBLE 

The core of the Embassy of Food, hosted by the Institute of Food & Design, is the EDIBLE INVISIBLE exhibition. Here you can experience something you can’t see: microbes. Microbes are everywhere and influence our