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17-25 October 2026

UNSEEN EDIBLE

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW18

Julia Schwarz is an Austrian designer who recently did her Master in industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She has a social and system driven focus on designing future. Julia uses design as a research tool and is interested in the intersection of design and science. Investigative methods are a key for her to shape perspectives for potential future as she did in ‘Unseen Edible’ where lichen are used as food source.  

 

Related interactions and an user’s experience are important parts in all layers of her work.

 

Unseen Edible - Lichen as Food 

 

When the population is growing, crops are failing and climate get even more extreme - which alternatives do we have to overcome the predicted food shortage? Next to the highly