Ciao Milano! We are very pleased to have been invited by PoliFactory, the Fablab within the Bovisa campus of Politecnico di Milano, to give a talk about distributed design for plant-based food for an event they organised called Open Food Factory. This event was held to inspire young designers and makers to participate in a challenge they had just launched. It was a great experience for us to be part of the selection of speakers, as we all had a different approach but one goal. We felt inspired and understood. The event ended with an aperitivo where we had the chance to exchange with the audience.

Many thanks to Andrea Ascani for inviting us and showing us the facilities and recent projects of their FabLab, and to the Distributed Design platform for facilitating our journey.

The Tools for a Warming Planet exhibition, of which we are a part, which was itself part of the La Irrupció exhibition, has ended. But the great news is that it will move to Ars Electronica, Austria! The Ars Electronica festival is a major event bringing together art, technology and society. We are very proud to be part of it with our fermenter necklace and 3D printed tempeh mould, continuing the discussion about the link we have with our food and the possible collaborations with fungi and micro-organisms in a crisis context.

Thanks to Sara Dean, Beth Ferguson, Marina Monsonís for curating and organizing!

Courtesy of the images: Tools for a Warming Planet

We are going on a trip and will close our shop for a few weeks. We will process your orders as soon as we return in September. Happy summer to all!

We’ve been in our studio designing, making and coding our fermenter prototypes for a long time now and we miss sharing real moments with you around healthy and sustainable food. But we are getting there! So what are we busy with now?

• We are finishing the fermenter, we can see the end! We still have a few details to work out, but basically we’re getting there. Maud is finishing the last details of the cabinet so that it can be easily manufactured later on, while Antoine is coding the interface of the electronics, so that it will be the easiest to use, by all. It’s taking us longer than expected, as we’re learning a lot along the way, but wow what an experience.
• We are documenting our entire process, from design to fabrication to use, as always we want to be as inclusive as possible to bring together as many fermentistas as possible. we dream of a world where everyone enjoys delicious plant-based proteins, made at home in a conscious and environmentally friendly way.
• We are designing a series of workshops around tempeh fermentation, but also about how to make the fermenter. If you are interested in this kind of workshop, please contact us.
• We are preparing our summer holidays, where we will spend a few days in Belgium to see friends and family, and then we will go to the north of Spain to cycle the Camino de Compostela, we can’t wait!

Here’s a souvenir of our stand. The Maker Faire is the event for makers, where we present our projects and share them with each other. We look forward to seeing more projects related to ecology, better ressource management and nutrition in this kind of event. Let’s create the change we want to see.

We had the chance to speak on this topic twice as a guest in a series of talks organised by Fab Lab Barcelona. Here are the recordings:

• Citizens at the center of food systems + Picnic (to come)
• This is Distributed Design

We have been invited to be part of a collective art exhibition about the climate and social crisis. Our fermenter necklace will represent our ideas, via the production and transformation of food at a hyper local level through the collaboration with fungi and microorganisms.

Barcelona, see you tonight at the opening, 7pm at the Santa Mònica Art Center on the Rambla.