Before the Plate, After a Meal:

Crafting Gastronomy, Technology and the Spaces Between

Date: 09 Jan, 2026 | Time: 18:00 | Little Theatre

What, how and where we eat today reflects far more than taste. This session brings togethervoices from gastronomy, architecture and technology to examine how meals are shaped longbefore they reach the plate and what remains after, for both people and the planet.

The future of dining demands more than better recipes or luxurious seating. It requires newways of thinking about produce, material, space, and technology, with responsibility. At the coreof the conversation lie three shared principles: craft as discipline; sustainability as luxury; andintuition as technique. Through these anchors, the panel explores how thoughtful systems cantransform kitchens into laboratories of change, restaurants into cultural spaces, and everydaymeals into acts of collective care.

This is a conversation about the paradigm shifts shaping the culture of food and dining today.