"All in all, the act of creating unique gastronomic experiences in which all the senses are involved is the hallmark of being an 'archicooktect'," Alexa Trilla told our correspondent Ishpreet Batra. Read more about Alexa and 'archicookture' on our website thedifd.com

For her project 'Crafting Transformation', the designer Anna Wieser invited a group of #craftspeople to a special dinner in an old windmill, in order to honour #craftsmanship. Read more about her process and approach on our website: thedifd.nl

"The overarching concept for the #experience was a questioning of the #cultural hegemony of French #culinary arts and fine dining," Richard Mitchell told us about the 'White Night vs Black Forrest' #dessert experience, which was developed by a team from the FoodDesignInstitute

We are launching our new interactive and #travelling exhibition 'Edible Invisible' in two days in #Ottawa! Next stops are #Vancouver in September and #Toronto in January 2020. Ingenium Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

We have a new Food & Empathy correspondent: Lotte Meeuwissen! She is a Dutch food designer based in Barcelona, who invents culinary interactions which focus on the social nature of food. She uses play as a tool to enable her audience to focus on means rather than ends.

Tosca Weber, a Swiss designer, visited the Museum Tinguely Basel's taste and food culture symposium "Amouse-Bouch" for us last month. Read about her experience on our website thedifd.com

"Farming insects is way more ethical and sustainable compared to livestock farming." Our #SouthAfrica correspondent Tina Breidi spoke to Gourmet Grubb about their dairy alternative EntoMilk and the delicacies they create with it! Read more on thedifd.com

Well worth a visit! 'Bigger than the Plate' opens in #London at the V&A this weekend. Check out vam.ac.uk for more!

"We used to want everything to be the same and now we have realised how unique each culture is and how strong it can be so we need to bring that out," says Maud de Rohan Willner, from Salty Studio, our new Food & Experience correspondent! Full interview: thedifd.com

"The chefs are women that come from the various villages of Lebanon, each bringing with them their traditional recipe (…)." Our Lebanon correspondent Josephine Abou Abdo interviewed the Lebanese food activist Kamal Mouzawak. Read more on our website thedifd.com

"In my opinion, food is a material like any other… but we’ve always been told not to play with our food!" Our Food & Experience correspondent Salty Studio recently interviewed the French designer Sonia Verguet. Read the full interview on our website: thedifd.com

"The show does not want to assign guilt, nor impose unique solutions, rather illustrate what the future of food could be." Food designer Giulia Soldati visited the V&A‘s new exhibition 'Food: Bigger than the Plate'. Read her article on our website: thedifd.com

Our new Portugal correspondent Karen Lacroix is the founder of the Illustration School EU. Read more about Karen's thoughts on the social and educational potential of food & design, on our website: thedifd.com

"Data Kitchen is based on an app that aims to eliminate the waiting time for customers, but also offers a contemporary dining experience and quality food." Our correspondent Jashan Sippy talked to Data Kitchen - read the full article on our website: thedifd.com

Our Japan correspondent Chieri Higa wrote about the Vitra exhibition "Food Shaping Kyoto" about Japanese food culture, exhibited at Weil am Rhein during Art Basel. Read more on thedifd.com

Food Design Friday feat. cyborg plants and in-home algae farming! bit.ly/2RsdUev

Our Food, Empathy and Design correspondent Lotte Meeuwissen wrote about the relationships and tensions between themes that arose during MOLD‘s summit on Intimate Food Interfaces at SPACE10 earlier this year.

Read our summer newsletter here: bit.ly/summerwithTheD… See you all again in September, after our summer break, with more news on the growing world of food & design.

Find out more in video No.3 of our weekly collaboration with WWF: wef.ch/2NnzkK2 #Netflix #OurPlanet #ShareOurPlanet #VoiceForThePlanet

The IDEO podcast Food by Design asks: How might we design better food systems? The result is a highly bingeable collection of amazing initiatives for transformation. In an exclusive interview Sandeep Pahuja talks about systems change from within. Read more: thedifd.com