The Next Bite

Date
09/2023 - 05/2024

Self-initiated Project
MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins

Displayed in
Dutch Design Week 2024 Lethaby Gallery Kings Cross

The Next Bite is a speculative food pack and futuristic food system in 2080 shaped by today's urgency on the food crisis predictions. The food pack offers a weekly rotation with two options: BASICOO, which contains an overflow of nutrients crafted from genetically modified technology, and POOCOO, made from repurposed excess nutrients in human faeces.

The Next Bite shows that advancing genetically modified food technology may lead to 'over-nutrition'. Most people only absorb 50-75% of nutrients, excreting the rest. Examining how nutrients affect faeces' characteristics, the project proposes using nutrients from human faeces as a sustainable food source, with the potential of use for design and construction materials solutions.

The Next Bite project becomes tangible through 3D software and specific parametric data. It reflects on individuals' food consumption patterns and habits, repurposing the relationship between food and human waste.

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Digital Bite

A conceptual advertisement of the future food pack in 2080

Images created with Mid-journey and animated with runway Gen-2, edited with Adobe After Effect and Photoshop.

Experience from ordering to eating

Edited with Adobe After Effect and Adobe illustrator

Website

This website provides another immersive narrative method for my project, where the audience can order the food pack, explore the research story, and bring the audience into world-building.

https://www.thenextbite.uk/

Edited with Figma

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Making of POOCOO

The project researches and speculates future food nutrients and inputs different nutrient parametric data into 3d software, generating faeces with varied textures, smells, and colors. Therefore, it becomes a prototype of POOCOO food.

Dine in the Dark - A blindfolded dining experience at the Central Saint Martins Graduation Showcase featuring works with two other designers and myself. Participants received small canapés while we narrated their journey through our narrative environments, engaging taste as a storytelling tool.

For my piece, POOCOO, I crafted a canapé with matcha mochi ice cream, red bean paste, agar jelly, and roasted soybean powder on a Petri dish, allowing guests to experience its textures and flavours through taste alone.

Dutch Design Week 2024 - Next Nature Museum