The Dutch Institute of Food & Design creates a global platform for designers working with food and eating. We explore how we create food and what, why and how we eat. We show the relevance of food connected to design and design connected to food. We ask critical questions about the discipline and link designers to each other and other sectors. The DIFD brings an emerging design discipline to the next level. With our final goal in mind: to enrich eating cultures and address the societal and environmental challenges around food using
design as a tool to achieve this.
As The Dutch Institute of Food & Design’s Public Relations manager, Orlando conduct interviews as well as edited and published articles from international correspondents about up and coming food & design projects from around the world. In parallel she ran the social media account. Additionally she communicated the Future Food Design Awards as well as developed and coordinated the production of the Food Design Manifesto.
Since 2024 the DIFD website is not active anymore.
For the Dutch Design Week 2018 I coordinated the beginning of the Dutch Institute of Food & Design‘s Food & Design Manifesto. Intended to be a growing, expansing and morphing document of collective visions on “what design can do for food”. The first Manifesto Map consists of a network of statements shared by our correspondents and illustrated by Su Hyun Park. To kick-off the manifest, we organised an event to spark dialogue, build connections and spread the Food & Design Manifesto spirit.
Marije Vogelzang, eating designer and initiator of the Dutch Institute of Food and Design, explains why this Manifesto is created: “The issue with food and design is that many people don’t know what it is exactly. That’s why the Food & DesignManifesto is a great starting point, a way to have all our voices together, making the intangible tangible and showing that we are a global movement linking many people from different fields together. It’s not like many other manifestos in that it is making one statement, but it’s actually showing that we’re there,“manifesting” a sign of life, which can help us amplify each other.
The correspondents include: Jopsehine Abou Abdo, Emilie Baltz, Tina Breidi, Chieri Higa, Inés Lauber, Albert Fuster, Richard Mitchell, Su Hyun Park, Pedro Reissig, Nataly Restrepo and Yunwen Tu.