Futurethinking process

Mendaciumprocess

book

Natasha RijkhoffLisa Reith

Mariëlle van ‘t Zand

Megatrends

and healthyconcept restaurants

and stores

they change our foodand make us think

we want it.

they change our foodand make us think

we want it.

we don’t recognise our foodand don’t even know

what’s in it

we don’t recognise our foodand don’t even know

what’s in it

some researchabout food which influences

our senses

some researchabout food which influences

our senses

What is a food mega trend?

A food mega trend is a predictions of the behaviour of the consumer. These trends tell you what kind of products these consumers want en what the reason behind these decisions are. The influences of which these mega trends are born are most-ly connected to nutrition and health care researches. Now I do believe that these mega trends are also shaped by force because of the food industries and their choice on what kind of subject they want to research. So the mega trends we now know are based on consumer likes, nutrition and health care research and market-ing research.

What kind of problems do food mega trends bring?

One true fact about mega trends is the problem of society. Businesses and citizens of cities cannot always easily adapt to the rapidly changing world of food. Other companies try to invest on these situations by creating new solutions in terms of products and services. They give the consumer a solution to be able to interact on the new food mega trend creating a vastly growing chain of ideas and producing innovative nourishments.

What engages the industry?

So and idea forms a product forms a brand forms a lifestyle. Food mega trend are not born in a few days or months no they grow in years. Research costs time and money but ideas seem to be thrown at them. For food being such a critical part of our lives decisions are made for the long term. Main predictions in the food indus-try at this moment are meant for 2030. Buying an idea and then get the techniques to create it and eventually putting them on the market.

But there are also smaller movements in food. The lifestyle of a person has a great influence on how they eat. Good and healthy food are quite expensive so people with less money seem to buy cheaper, less healthier food. These small aspects of someone’s diet can grow in huge movements over the world. Think of the flexa-tarians and the Asian ''super foods''. Small changes between cultures are now the booming mega trends of the world.

Why is the food industry still a fringe?

Mankind handles food poorly. We use too much energy, we spoil too much food, we eat too much animals products and take lesser nutrients and others suffer from being malnourished, having obesity and diabetes. We have reached our limits and even if there is a green revolution going on we barley noticed it's existence.

To me it seems as if science and technology has only focused itself on the food itself. Texture, taste and how to sell products have became more and more important. It is only recently that we ask more fundamental questions in relation with what we eat. So forget the marketing related difficulties the food industry struggles with. How will our food evolve itself with less emissions, less water and fewer animals?

Scenario

What if they aren't any natural sources for us to create our food from. What will hap-pen with our daily nutrition? How will it taste and look like? What will become the new questions we ask ourselves about the background and the way our food is created?

How will we end up if we believe in mega-trends?

We want to create a company which is respected like a religion which tells you what to eat and how you eat. People will believe in the mega trends and will adjust their lives to it. Food will look in a certain way. We will eat with new manners. We have special light/sound in the rooms we eat in.

Midhat: Visueel vormgeven eten, verpakkingenLisa: Research religie (achtergrond) en schrijven van nieuwe food mega trend religieMariëlle: Logo, propaganda poster en huisstijl van het bedrijfNatasja: proces van hoe het eten gemaakt word, wat voor stoffen gaan ze gebruiken en hoe komen ze hieraan (visueel)

propaganda food.they make us believe

something which is not true

propaganda food.they make us believe

something which is not true

the scenario we hadand idea for an end result was too big.so we thought of a new concept.

Final Concept:Nowadays people hardly know what they are eating. Big food companies rule the industry and half-truths and incomprehensible stories are told to get people to buy certain products. It has already been proven that sugar and fast food is addictive, which is shocking, yet people keep buying more and more of it.

We based our projects on these facts, creating a company and a product that uses half-truths to sell their product and make sure everybody buys it. We have exagger-ated the outcome, making it that worldwide everyone buys the product and people quickly become addicted due to the high level of sugar, in combination with people being told that it is good for them. It is a example of how we think that in future we will know even less about the food we eat and swallow the stories more easily because its what we want to believe. People will get busier and busier and this fact combined with the lack of knowledge about food, will make sure that people buy this product en masse.

We then hand out a newspaper article, dated five years later, telling the public about all the lies and fables they have been told about the product they have consumed daily.

We are now already being told only half of the truth about many things we consume, and often people don’t even realise that. With this product we want to show how lit-tle we actually know and how easily we swallow what we are being told.

We started this idea by looking at megatrends, and how people follow a trend in food so easily, without actually knowing what it entails.

Fastfood is addictive• Food companies don’t need to put everything on the packages• E numbers, nobody knows what they really are• Scientific names make people believe it• Large food companies hold so much power they can manipulate scientists into

saying their product is good and healthy• Sugar is addictive

http://ifood.tv/facts/312921-side-effects-of-lime

http://herbs.lovetoknow.com/Aga-ve_Nectar_Side_Effects

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-sugar-increases-the-risk-of-dying-with-heart-disease-201402067021

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/

Words used:

Ferrum : Iron

Ultimatum Verum: ultimate truth

Mendacium: lie

The big lie: Mendatium Magnum

incredibly unhealthy: maxime gravibus

self invented: Inventa

zink: cadmiae

De Smaakbijbel, Niki Segnit, Neder-lands, Uitgeverij Podium B.V.,mei 2011

Books:

Sources -end result

Ik heb er mijn buik van vol, Mari-jke de Waal Malefijt, Nederlands, Schors V.O.F.,november 2011

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http://globaltrends2030.files.word-press.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf

http://live.ift.org/2013/07/13/sloan-identifies-texture-as-the-next-food-mega-trend/

http://www.bbc.com/specialfea-tures/horizonsbusiness/megatrend/food/

http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Part-ner/Futures/Our-Future-World.aspx

http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Manufacturing/Flexitarian-ism-to-be-next-mega-trend

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/mar/12/how-taste-different-colours

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http://www.nutraingredients.com/Consumer-Trends/Euromonitor-reads-2014-in-5-mega-trends

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Consumer-Trends/Euromonitor-reads-2014-in-5-mega-trends