Foods of the Future Lab is a 1–2 hour immersive session that uses food — coffee, chocolate, mushrooms, greens, insects — as the starting point for genuine team connection and surprising, substantive conversation.
Each session is built around a single food, explored from farm to future, with tasting, dialogue, and reflection woven together into an experience.
Choose from one of the following experiences:
Coffee - We drink it every day. Do we know it at all? On the difference between familiarity and understanding — and what else we assume we know simply because it's close to us. Includes a tasting of coffees of the future.
Chocolate - The supply chain is invisible. By design. On wilful blindness, the comfort of not knowing, and what becomes possible when we choose to look. Includes a tasting of future cacao innovations.
Mushrooms - Value grows where we stop looking. On inclusion, unexpected conditions, and what a city worth living in actually requires. Includes a harvest tasting of mushroom delicacies. The offsite experience at a local farm is capped at 25pax.
Greens - A carpark. Then a farm. What changed? On constraints as invitations, and the assumptions we make about where possibility lives. Includes a tasting of local greens. The offsite experience at a local farm is capped at 25pax.
Insects [Signature Experience] - Nutritionally superior. Environmentally better. Most people still won't try them. Sound familiar? On the gap between knowing and doing — and what transformation actually demands of us. Includes a tasting of up to 7 different savoury and sweet (insect) snacks.
Sample Agenda (1-2h)
1) Arrival & Connection
2) Seeing the system: Game or Interactive Exploration
3) Tasting the present and the future
4) So what for you? Translating insights into leadership lessons and team dynamics
Delivered on-site at your office or off-site at a partner farm, your leaders and teams leave with:
A shared experience they'll still be talking about after the session
Conversations across functions and levels that rarely happen otherwise
A new way of seeing a system they thought they already understood
Insights that connect naturally to your team's culture and challenges
This activity presents an in depth dive into future foods, and encourages us to learn and have an open mind about how we might accommodate such sources of food in our lifestyle and diets.
At the same time, the facilitator adapts this experience into insights that can apply to team culture and workplace challenges.
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