Design Indaba | 19.05.2026 21:52
For Design Indaba’s 25th anniversary, Berlin-based artist, food designer and Global Graduate Alexandra Genis delivered a talk that brought speculative gastronomy to the forefront, using food as a provocative lens through which to examine sustainability, ecology and the future of human consumption. Presenting her project Atoma, Genis explored how synthetic flavour design and molecular gastronomy could reshape the way people think about food in a resource-constrained future. Her talk challenged audiences to confront their assumptions around “natural” food systems and the environmental cost of modern eating habits.
