Tasting the Future: Hungry EcoCities Showcases 3 Years of Food Innovation at Dutch Design Week
Where art meets technology and sustainable food systems collide, remarkable prototypes have sprouted to rethink how cities produce and consume food.
🤖 OCTOBER 23rd at 2pm CEST
At Dutch Design Week, Hungry EcoCities will present the results of its three-year EU-funded Horizon Europe programme — showcasing how artists, designers, researchers, and agri-food enterprises joined forces to imagine and prototype new pathways for resilient urban food systems.
🌱 Join us for a 50-minute interactive and inspiring session at Dutch Design Week and take the opportunity to engage directly with our partners.
From AI-powered digital solutions to tangible material prototypes, this unique art-driven programme has demonstrated how creative cross-pollination can generate real-world answers to today’s urgent food challenges.
Over the course of the project, Hungry EcoCities brought together:
- 8 core partners
- 10 agri-food enterprises
- 19 visionary artists and designers
Together, they experimented, collaborated, and created new visions for healthy, sustainable, responsible, and affordable food systems in Europe’s cities.
Core partners: In4Art, Carlo Ratti Associati, Studio Other Spaces, Brno University of Technology, KU Leuven.AI, EatThis, Mendel University, and FundingBox.

The HungryEcoCities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101069990.