Dinning With The Future
Applied Skills
Making Skills
Casting
Mould Making | Lost Wax/Organic Casting | Bronze
Metal Work
Cutting | Polishing
Software Skills
Adobe Illustrator
Card Game Design
Capcut
Video Editing
Dining with The Future is a speculativedining intervention that turns "icky" biomaterials into conversational starters
Project Snapshot
Goal → Reduce feelings of disgust toward biomaterials by wrapping them in a playful, low‑stakes communal ritual.
Audience → Young adults (18 – 30) who will shape and live through the material transition away from petro‑plastics.
Format → One‑night dining experience filmed in a Come Dine With Me style short documentary.
The Intervention
The evening combined tactile prompts, humour and reality‑TV pacing to surface genuine, unscripted reactions to the mycelium‑textured cutlery.
Key Ingedients
Three sets of bronze cutlery — each cast at a different mycelium growth stage.
“Would You Rather?” card game (product, lifestyle, and system‑change decks).
Scorecards rating *texture appeal · practicality · overall experience*.
Observational voice‑over · 4 K multi‑cam shoot · fast jump‑cuts.
Design Process Highlights
Growing
Bronze Casting
The Evening
At the Table
Participant
Sophie
Elise
Hannah
Growth Stage
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Texture
Practicality
Overall
Trend: acceptance grew as the material matured, confirming that context + tactility can soften initial disgust.
Learnings & Next Steps
Humour lowers barriers faster than statistics—keep the tone light but insightful.
Touch first, teach later: hands‑on contact proved more persuasive than pre‑briefs.
Scalable to other “challenging” biomaterials and other rituals (bathing, dressing, gifting).
