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Seed Stewarding with the Iraqi Seed Collective
Bookclub
Mold Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch. 14-20
Cooperative Strategies for Building Future Worlds in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
Bookclub
MOLD Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch. 9-13
Navigating Change through Gardening in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
Bookclub
MOLD Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch 1-8
Seed Saving and Survival Planning in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
Publishing Ecologies Panel
Building A More Resilient Ecosystem for Independent Publishing
Beyond Borders
Reclaiming space at the 60th Venice Biennale
MOLD’s PICKS AT NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2024
Editor's Note
MOLD’s PICKS AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024
Project
IL DILUVIO UNIVERSALE: AN OPERA BY DONIZETTI
Essay
The Fight for Community Composting
A Dispatch from NYC's Save Compost Rally
MOLD Potluck with All Pib Slow Play
Celebrating Deceleration and the turn of the seasons
Project
The Roving Nature Park
Boosting Biodiversity in England with National Education Nature Park
From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be free.
Essay
Nature or Nurture
A Cook's Journey to Soft Fascination
Project
A Trickle in Time
Mary Mattingly's Watery Manifesto for Collective Futures
Essay
Milking and the Disembodied Existence
Events
Public Access
Foreword for the NYDW23 exhibition
Project
éla!
Tomorrow will be a different story
Food and Art: Alternative M.A.
Events
Soil Studies
Get ready for MOLD's final print issue with these three upcoming events
Project
Banana Gas Machine
There is nothing like eating a fruit when it is just ripe.
Project
Meat-ing Synthetic Cultures
How can meat change our culture?
MOLD’s Fall Exhibition Round-Up
Project
An Experience With Cultured Meat
How can lab grown meat change the way we eat?
Essay
Sugar Plastic: A Tasty Alternative?
What Mamou-Mani’s Aurora teaches us about bioplastics’ strengths and limitations.
Essay
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Artist Commissions
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Interspecies Futures
MOLD’s 2021 Year In Review: Decolonization
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Community Economics
Project
Embracing Imperfection with FDK Florals
A floral arrangement workshop for new forms of representation
Essay
In Support of a Free Palestine
Connecting land, food and freedom
Project
Creating a New National Dish
The Center of Genomic Gastronomy experiments how traditional dishes might be reimagined in the context of climate change.
Interview
Plant Fever
An exploration of how design can cater to plants’ needs, from the perspective of plants.
DEMI is the new platform connecting food enthusiasts with chefs
A Brexit Banquet
Dover Street Market and Sky High Farm Launch Holiday Gift Baskets and Cafe Menu
Your Mouth Has Power: Brooklyn Launch Parties + Film Screening
A Message from Indigenous Leaders: Why Regenerative Agriculture is Not Enough
IKEA’s Virtual Greenhouse Thrives at 2020 Dutch Design Week
A Focus on Foraging at 2020 Dutch Design Week
Aquaculture, Ag Waste and Apps Win 2020’s Thought for Food Challenge
5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Empathy Revisited, Launches Today
Indigenize! Support Indigenous Voices in the Fight for Food Sovereignty
Cooperative Economics 101 and the Revolutionary Potential of Redistributing Resources
Superflux’s Speculative “Mitigation of Shock” Finds Unexpected Relevancy in Pandemic
First Annual LA Fruit-Share Happening This Sunday
On Designing for Diginity and Practices of Care, Notes from our SPACE10 Session
Join MOLD and Deem Journal for a SPACE10 Session on Designing Dignity and Practices of Care
Decolonizing Foraging and Amplifying Indigenous Knowledge with I-Collective
What to Forage in New York City Right Now
Who Feeds Delhi? Join us for a 3-Day Workshop at SPACE10
Mapping Food Justice in Virginia
Exploring Empathy in the Kitchen, Open Call for the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial
Join MOLD for a Chinese New Year Dumpling Making Workshop
VR Dining Debuts at James Beard House
Beyond Stereotypes, Food Forward India on Defining the Narrative of Indian Cuisine
Debuting at Dubai Design Week: Food for Rebuilding Communities and Participatory Design
African/American: Making the Nation’s Table with MOFAD and The Africa Center
Join MOLD for Food Lab, Exploring the Future of the Portuguese Christmas Feast
Food Design at Dutch Design Week 2019
De/Gusta De/Sign: Tableware and Tools at Venice Design Week
Edible Elements of the Periodic Table
The Future of Sustainable Development at NYC AgTech Week
Carbon Neutrality in the Restaurant Industry: Combatting Emissions with Zero Foodprint
MOLD Spotify x 2: An Audible Addition to your August Eats
Project
Lickable Cities
Reimagining Engagement with our Built Environments
The Bombay Canteen’s Independence Day Dawaat is a Feast for Farmer’s Futures
Talking Cows with Adelaide Lala Tam
MOLD’s Summit on Redesigning the Food Chain @ Copenhagen Techfestival
Balling the Queen: The Event Series and Helping Bees
Colony Collapse and Pollinator Distress: Why We Should Care
On Pollinator Health and Monoculture Farming
A Brief History of Colony Collapse Disorder
Balling the Queen: The Biggest Pollination Event in the World
Studio RaivioBumann Builds Installation for Urban Biodiversity in Helsinki
A New Generation of Food Designers from Food Non Food in Eindhoven
To Flavor Our Tears: When the Body Becomes a Restaurant
Introducing: MOLD Spotify!
Architecture Meets Urban Garden at LA Design Festival
Flavor in Your Ear: Learnings from the World of Food ASMR
Chef Selassie Atadika and the Geographies of New African Cuisine
Plastic Soup, Pest Control and Forgotten Foods at The Utopian Dinner
Neuroenology and the Neuroscience Behind Creating the Flavor of Wine
Future Food Today Cookbook Launches at Space10
On Designing for the Senses, MOLD Magazine Issue 04 Editor’s Note
Food Design Exhibits and Events to Check Out this May
MOLD’s Picks at Milan Design Week 2019
At the Slow Tools Conference, Foundations for Facilitating Collaboration
With Ginkgo Bioworks’ Creative Residency, Design a World Without Waste
Welcome to MOLD’s Food Futures Podcast!
Innovative Startups at the World Agri-Tech Summit 2019
The Politics of Being Vegetarian in India
Designing Future Food Scenarios for Copenhagen 2035
From Seed to Scents, Scenes from Marije Vogelzang’s Multisensory Seed Installation
Dhanushkodi and the Case for Rewilding Language and Landscape
Food Design and the Fourth Industrial Revolution at reThink Food 2018
From Stun Gun to Paper Clip, Adelaide Tam’s 0.9 Grams of Brass Project Wins the 2018 Future Food Design Award
Join us for 24 Seasons of Rice at MOFAD
6 Food Design Picks for Dutch Design Week 2018
Euphemisms and Safe Meat Words
The Orthography of Language
Smart Kitchen Summit Seattle 2018
Constructing Healthy Places at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Connecting Fashion with Agriculture with FIT’s Composting Program
How MIT Student Organizations are Building a Better Food System
5 Food Design Picks for London Design Festival 2018
Finalists for the Future Food Design Awards 2018
Karenna Gore on the Moral Fight Against Climate Change
Designing for Systems, Not Symptoms: A Food Waste Manifesto
With RISD Food Lab, an Extracurricular Serving of Food Design
How Pro Soccer Star CJ Sapong Found Healing in Sacred Seeds
Help Direct the Future of Food at SXSW
How Does a Studio Design the Family Meal of the Future?
MOLD’s Summit on Intimate Food Interfaces @ Copenhagen Techfestival
Nordic Food Lab’s Gastro-Science-Chef Symposium Sets the Table for Storytelling and Science
‘From Farms to Incubators’ Puts the Spotlight on Women in Agriculture
Project Gastronomia Predicts London’s Multisensory Food Design Future
Future Food Design Awards Call for Entries!
Hungry for Hungary? SANTOPALATO Shows Food Beyond the Plate in Two Concurrent Exhibitions
Pepi de Boissieu’s Food Experiences Celebrate the Ritual of Dining
Mapping the Future of Food on an Adventure Around the World
8 Delicious Food Design Projects for New York Design Week 2018
The Future (of Food) Starts Here
Eating Climate Change Through the Flood and Drought
7 Food Design Projects to Taste at Milan Design Week 2018
Chef Alex Atala’s Instituto Atá Creates New Models for Sustainable Food Systems
Designing the Future of Drinking Water with Jane Withers and A/D/O
This June, Global Leaders Gather at EAT Stockholm to Direct the Future of Sustainable Food Systems
Marije Vogelzang’s Solo Exhibition in China Heralds the Age of the Shit Designer
At SIK/TENG, Wolfgang Amadeus provides the recipe and the music for a multi-sensory supper club
Relentless Human Tragedy Could be a Creating the Perfect Conditions for Tear-Drinking Insects
The Future of Farming is Female: Recap for VICE x Delta Launchpad
Love Mushrooms? Get Involved with Mycologos, the World’s First Online Mycology Institute
Contatto: Designing Gestures for Eating with Our Hands
Food Revolution 5.0 Curator on the Urgency of Design for the Real World
Corn Futures, Insect Farm and a Fermentation Robot are Finalists in the first Future Food Design Award
Setting the Table for Tomorrow: #MOLDMonthly at IdeasCityNewYork
Food Design Wins at the 2017 INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award
What a Croc! An Australian Art Collective’s Take on American Cuisine
Join Us for #MOLDMonthly at the Delta x Vice Launchpad Festival, Seattle
Rene Redzepi Goes Wild for Foraging with VILD MAD
Join Us for #MOLDMonthly: “The Future of Farming is Female” Panel Discussion at Ludlow House
The Case for a Next Generation Innovation Model
Zero Gravity Dining at Slovenia’s Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies
Cultivando Futuro Takes Grand Prize, Plus Highlights from the 2017 Thought For Food Global Summit
Preview MOLD Magazine at the Culturing Yogurt Exhibition
Dining with Design at Sight Unseen Presents
The Personal Stories of Chefs, Ceramics and Chinese Food in America at MOCA’s “Sweet Sour Bitter Spicy” Show
We’re Having a House Party with Sight Unseen x SONOS
Exploring Food, Design & Femininity with the Food Design Collective Barcelona
Barack Obama to Speak on Food Tech at Milan’s Seeds&Chips
Tour a Milanese Dried Fruit Shop with Fabrica Creative Director Sam Baron
Why this MIT Student is Studying the Social Computing of Your Food Snaps
We’re Salivating Over These 8 Food Design Projects for Salone del Mobile 2017
What’s for School Lunch? Why Italy is Teaching Elementary Students Food Design
2017 Thought for Food Challenge Finalists Announced!
A High School Competition to Design Good Food For All
Designing the Story of Chinese Food in America
Nobel Laureates Gather to Discuss the Future of Food
Dine on Decadent Decay with Guerilla Science
Ole Scheeren Sets the Stage for Dean & DeLuca at Design Miami/ 2016
What is the Legacy of Expo Milan 2015? A Look at the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Summit
Exploring Future Foods at SPACE10’s NYC Pop-Up
Olson Kundig on Designing a Visitor Center for Cheese Lovers
Scuola Politecnica’s Food Design Program Launches an Innovation Hub in Milan
10 Food Design Projects to See During London Design Festival 2016
These Countries Are Imagining a Utopian Food Future at the Inaugural London Design Biennale
On Markets, Movements and the Politics of Food
Reduce Food Waste and Win $25,000 from the OpenIDEO Challenge
A Night in the Forgotten Garden with Stella Artois and Bompas & Parr’s Multi-Sensory Meal
From Food Computers to Banana Fiber Sanitary Pads, Here are Four Food Design Projects Honored in the 2016 Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge
5 Ideas from the Food Frontier at Food Loves Tech 2016
Airbnb and Ambra Medda Host Makers and Bakers During Salone Milan 2016
Future-Proofing Food at the 2016 Bitten Food Conference
Design Talk at Parsons: How Design Can Feed a Hungry Planet
Food Design Lovers Rejoice! Two Coastal Conferences to Feed Your Intellect
The Next Big Snack Foods To Emerge From The 2016 Winter Fancy Food Show
Cry Into Your Drink And Create “Bitter Tears” Alcohol Mixers with Bompas & Parr
Eataipei, a Taste of the World Design Capital 2016
This Museum Exhibition is a Lab for Flavor: Making It and Faking It
The International Conference on Food Design Reveals the Designer’s Role in Food Systems and Hospitality
8 Food Design Projects to See at London Design Festival 2015
Thinking Food Design At Paris Design Week 2015
DesignMarketo Workshops Grains for Thoughts for Station to Station
Designing Fine Dining at 30,000 Feet: Flying High in Emirates First Class
Visualizing The Economy of Food at the Bronx River Art Center Gallery
Bistro In Vitro is Now Taking Reservations for 2028
5 Food and Design Projects to See During New York Design Week 2015
5 Lessons for Designers and Food Photographers from the 2015 Food Book Fair
Eat Shit: Design Academy Eindhoven’s Potty Party for Milan Design Week 2015
Five Standouts from Designs of the Year 2015
Marije Vogelzang on Shit, Food Non Food and Why Food Is the Most Important Material In the World
Eat Shit! Preview Design Academy Eindhoven’s 2015 Salone del Mobile Milan Exhibition
Get wastED with America’s Best Chefs: Blue Hill Now Serving Food Waste on a Plate
A Swedish Beer Museum: Form Us With Love’s Ode to Beer
A Master’s Degree in Milan dedicated to Food Design
The Ultimate Expression of Food Design? Military Rations of 20 Nations Go on Display in Milan
Relax in Nendo’s Chocolate Lounge at Maison et Objet
Let Them Eat Cake! Chamber x PIN-UP for Art Basel Miami Beach
Bompas & Parr’s Flavor Conductor Organ Will Change the Way You See and Hear Cocktails
Chamber: NYC’s Newest Design Destination
Sam Baron on Fabrica’s Extra-Ordinary Gallery for London Design Festival
Food Design Highlights from Wallpaper* Handmade 2014
Sunday, June 29: NYC Launch of Aureola Tea Set by Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva
Didn’t Get to Try to a Cricket Summer Roll? Here’s What Else You May Have Missed at our OFFSITE Cafe + Exhibition
New York Design Week: MOLD Future Food Exhibition + Cafe at Sight Unseen OFFSITE
Full Moon Ramen: Traveling 4,000 Miles to Eat a Bowl of Noodles in the Middle of Nowhere
Where’s the Beef? Biotech Companies Shape the Future of Meat
Feed Your Mind: King’s College Festival of Food and Ideas
Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity
Lickestra, an Interactive Ice Cream Orchestra from Emilie Baltz and Carla Diana
Call for Entries: Kitchen Becomes Open, Valcucine’s Innovation Workshop for Salone Milan 2014
Enter Your Bar or Object Design in the Belgian Biennale Interieur Foundation Awards
What Do People Taste Like—As Cheese? We (Finally) Have the Answer
Happy Halloween! Sight Unseen x Snarkitecture’s Designer and Architect Pumpkin Carving Contest
The Future Food House at the World Food Festival
Biogas and the Quest for the Self-Sufficient Kitchen at Vienna Design Week
DesignMarketo x Le Labo Explore Pepper in Perfume, Sir?
Cheers! Salud! Ganbei! OKOLO Invites You to Open & Drink!
Tattfoo’s Nature Matching System Goes Fruity Pop
Summer Camp for Food Hacking: Offsite x Clawhammer Farms
Monkeytown3: Digesting Video at Eye Beam
BOOM! The Museum of Food and Drink Launches with a 3,200-pound Puffing Gun
