The food4future x HTW - ID project was developed as part of the main project in the Industrial Design program (BI 14) at HTW Berlin and is supported by food4future. The goal is to translate key food challenges for the year 2050 into practical design concepts, thereby opening up new perspectives on alternative foods and urban production methods.

Together, the students develop prototypes, exhibits, and forward-looking design concepts that offer a glimpse into how we might cook, grow, and consume in the future. Their work focuses on three main areas:

• Future Show Kitchen: mobile cooking and tasting stations that present new foods in an enjoyable and accessible way.
• Interactive exhibits: modular display elements that allow visitors to experience alternative resources with all their senses and convey knowledge in a playful way.
• Urban cultivation systems: Ideas for future production facilities that cultivate insects, algae, or halophytes in a resource-efficient manner in urban areas or directly on the HTW campus.

The project demonstrates how appealing design can break down barriers to acceptance, spark curiosity, and change consumer habits. Through future-thinking approaches, field trips to research facilities, and iterative prototyping, scientific findings from food4future were translated into tangible future scenarios.