Reverse Alchemy
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What do you eat in VR ?
Will You Eat Me? crafts an interactive dining experience where users assemble virtual burgers while unraveling the story of their disappearance.
Seated in a speculative dining space, users enter a VR environment designed to feel both familiar and unsettling. A digital table is set before them, adorned with futuristic food ingredients—each with its own distinct texture, sound, and form. As they reach out with their controllers, they begin to explore: stacking, arranging, even discarding elements like coily lettuce and pill-shaped cheese.
Then, the narrative begins:
"Hello, dear, come closer.
Are you feeling hungry?
Well, look around—you’re in the right place.
A perfect spot for a meal.
But something about it feels different, doesn’t it?"
As the user builds their burger, they simultaneously construct an understanding of its loss. Each interaction is accompanied by a voice that unfolds the story—an intimate yet urgent recollection of food’s slow extinction:
"Before our eyes, things began to change. The Earth grew warmer, and our climate began to worsen. It became harder to predict, and because of that, growing food became much more difficult. Harvests weren’t as bountiful, and prices for food soared. The foods we once loved became rare, and then… they slowly disappeared. Starving people, barren lands, and a crippling sense of fear."
By transforming food nostalgia into an act of speculative play, Will You Eat me? blurs the line between memory, crisis, and design intervention—challenging us to rethink the emotional, environmental and systemic forces shaping what we eat, how w consume, and what we might lose in the process.
Dutch Design Week Exhibit
Dutch Design Week Exhibit
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven December 2024.