Appetite For Design

Opening this Friday, 8th May 2015 and running until Tuesday, 30th June 2015, in the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Appetite for Design is a unique and spectacular food design exhibition that will explore the design of methods and spaces where food is processed, distributed and consumed.

Appetite for Design features the work of leading Irish and international designers, cooks and restaurateurs such as Bompas & Parr, Marije Vogelzang, Omer Polek, The Decorators, Chapter One, Superfolk and Loam who will be documenting, discussing and speculating about the design of food and our experience of it. A series of ticketed culinary eating experiences and performances to accompany the exhibition will be hosted in the National Craft Gallery by The Domestic Godless, Culinary Counter, Barry Fitzgerald and guerrilla dining group, Dublin Pop-Up. Tickets are available to purchase from Eventbrite here. Food is no longer merely about the simple act of eating or the pure experience of smell and taste. New trends and materials have led to unique opportunities for the designers of today to enhance and elevate our engagement with food by speaking to our minds as well as our stomachs, engaging all the senses in a holistic culinary experience. The exhibition, which is curated by Dublin design studio Designgoat and supported by Bulthaup and O’Hagan Design, explores the very best of food design and builds on the increasing global recognition of outstanding Irish produce from coast to coast and seabed to soil.

For full program and more information click here.