Do we need real ice cream to fulfill our desire for it?
Elise tapped into the psychology of our eating habits to explore alternative ways of consumption. This work offers a range of cream experiences intended to evoke your carnal senses.
Ice cream fantasy
Succulence mag installation and AR ice cream experience as part of a group exhibition of Bosacademie residents.
Showcased in September 2024 during Vruchtbare Grond, Antwerp (Belgium).
Special thanks to Het Bos.
what if you bring together a unique mix of adventurous individuals and you serve them surprising food items in an intimate atmosphere with an enticing table setting?
They BLEND beautifully!
Photo credits: Brecht Vermeesch
The power of BLEND is that we create an intimate atmosphere with a special openness .
BLEND – an experiential dinner
Photo credits: Brecht Vermeesch
BLEND is an experiential dinner created by MiE Goffin & Elise Coudré. We are 2 passionate food designers who combined their expertises into a delicious collaboration.
BLEND goes beyond delicious food. In addition to culinary exploration, there is plenty of room for social experiments. Future-oriented dishes are combined with creative and interactive elements. By taking full advantage of unique locations, we BLEND the atmosphere of the venue with culinary and creative elements. This ensures surprising exchanges and makes the experience unforgettable.
Photo credits: Lars Duchateau
Photo credits: Lars Duchateau
Interested in a BLEND event?
Are you looking for a unique teambuilding or networking event for your company? Do you want to host an unforgettable experience at your venue? Are you looking to have different & refreshing conversations at the table? Or are you in to future food?
BLEND – the experiential dinner – might just be what you are looking for!
testimonials
Photo credits: Brecht Vermeesch
We don’t only eat because we are hungry. Our emotions play a big part in the food choices we make.
Photo by Hans Gaston
Should food be capable of putting you at ease (mentally as well as physically)? What does truly comforting food feel like?
Comfort is a feeling
Exhibition with 8 installations that made people think about food, their relationship to it and its comforting qualities.
Showcased in September 2023 during Open Monumentendag within the beautiful setting of an old banquet hall in the middle of a hip beer hub in Mechelen (Belgium): Bier Central.
Special thanks to Radar Mechelen, Bier Central, Stad Mechelen, Pringles, Kurt & René.
Photo by Hans Gaston
Photo by Hans Gaston
Click next to start a short questionnaire on comfort food. I might use your answers as a source of inspiration for future art installations ;).
Klik op volgende om een korte bevraging over comfort food te starten. Misschien gebruik ik je antwoorden wel als inspiratiebron bij het creëren van toekomstige kunstinstallaties ;).
Do you take on the challenge to drink your coffee mindfully today? Listen to one of the audio bits below to enjoy a guided mindful coffee meditation. Sit back, relax and… take a sip ;).
Om van je dagelijkse koffie een bewuster moment te maken, luister naar het audio bestand hieronder:
To make a mindful moment out of your daily coffee, listen to the audio below:
Music by RelaxingTime from Pixabay.
Interested in creating a food and meditation session around your brand or product?
Do you dare to get playful with your food? Have you ever questioned the way you eat? During the playful eating workshop l challenge participants to approach their food differently.
Considering how you eat may result in sensorial, mindful and intuitive experiences that bring great pleasure to the act of eating
Maybe your food has to tell you a great story or it wants to connect you with your body.
The playful eating workshop is great for teambuildings, family gatherings, art events, exhibitions and more
Completely tailored to your needs the workshop will enable you to dive deeper into the theory of secret seasoning, a framework for playful eating that I created together with Ferran Altarriba Bertran. It’ll get you out of your comfort zone into an experimental and playful mind of state.
What if food has a personality?
Could it reject you and your greediness?
Which message does your food have to tell you?
Selection of pictures taken within the project Secret Seasoning where Elise experimented with various ways of playful eating to inspire cooks, food designers and diners to approach the act of eating in a more joyful way.
Are you looking for a creative way to communicate your message about food? Do you want to give food itself a voice?
Food is everywhere and it gets us every time. Longing, craving, desiring.
Food flirt
In our current society, we are continuously seduced by food. Our mouths start watering when we walk past that burger billboard in the street. Our stomachs start grumbling when we are relaxing our minds on social media feeds and encounter an endless array of #foodpic and #foodporn images.
Wat if food needed to intentionally seduce us in order to be eaten?
In our current society, we are continuously seduced by food. Our mouths start watering when we walk past that burger billboard in the street. Our stomachs start grumbling when we are relaxing our minds on social media feeds and encounter an endless array of #foodpic and #foodporn images.
Food Flirt started as a visual exploration of unusual links and hidden undertones within our current food culture.
This project came to being in collaboration with Ana Gutman.
Through an extensive research process, we explored different seduction rituals existent in the natural world to then imagine those scenarios around a food-centered narrative. This with the aim to exaggerate the feeling of temptation we as humans have in the presence of food and, most of all, reflect on our own emotionally complex relationship with it.
Food is everywhere nowadays. It is instantly available in restaurants and stores, advertised on every corner of the street and has also been sneakily integrated into our social media feeds.
Photo credits: Isabelle Stauffer
Have you ever paused to become aware of the context in which you are making food choices?
scripted – an experiential dinner
Photo credits: Tomas Uyttendaele
The experiential dinner is a three-course meal that serves different future perspectives. With each course the setting of the restaurant changes in every aspect. Going from authorative to informative to … , the participants always start to discuss and speculate about the future of our food system which creates a great dynamic!
Photo credits: Tomas Uyttendaele
scripted at your venue?
Are you looking for a unique teambuilding for your company? Do you want to host an unforgettable experience at your venue? Are you looking to have different & refreshing conversations at the table?
Scripted – the experiential dinner – might just be what you are looking for!
5 speculative scenarios
The project started with research into the (invisible) communication that happens between food & humans. The findings from the research were then translated into speculative future scenarios. Each of the scenarios describes a different futuristic world where the way in which we engage with food has changed completely.
These scenarios were eventually used to create experiential eating performances. The performances were all scripted around the future of our food choices.
How might we improve mealtime experiences for families with a child with an eating disorder? Is there a way to help parents to support their child better during meals at home?
For parents of children with an eating disorder, family meals become a real struggle. Komoon comprises a product-service-system that helps those parents in dealing with shared eating in an encouraging and effective way.
The support that the product-service system provides, enables the parents to determine and carry out an appropriate approach during the meals with their family.
This project was developed within the context of my thesis in order to get my Master’s Degree in Product Development (Industrial Design).
Through in-depth interviews with on the one hand parents with children with an eating disorder and on the other hand therapists, dieticians, psychologists and other professionals in the field, I acquired insights in the complex disease and it’s effects on the family.
A lot of brainstorm sessions were organized during the design process. I organized sessions together with other designers, and with parents of teens and with experts on the field. A lot of ideas to fit the needs of the target group were generated during the sessions.
A lot of different prototypes were made. Families with teenagers and families with teenagers that have an eating disorder tested those prototypes during a period and gave a lot of feedback on them. The insights I acquired from the tests made sure that the final design of the personal element fit the behaviour and needs of the families.
