We’re excited to welcome you to to EDIBLE: Food + Design confluence in Brussels and Antwerp.
Quick links:
13/10 (Tuesday)
– Edible Brussels: Exhibition Entry, 10:00-18:00 @ Arba-ESA
– Edible Brussels: Conference + Exhibition Entry (with or without catering), 10:00-18:00 @ Arba-ESA
14/10 (Wednesday)
– Edible Antwerp: Exhibition Entry (includes unlimited access to MAS Museum), 10:00-18:00 @ MAS Box
– Edible Antwerp: Conference + Exhibition Entry (with or without catering) (includes unlimited access to MAS Museum), 10:00-18:00 @ MAS Box
– WORKSHOP: Multicultural Antwerp – Guided Walking Tour, Tasting & Supermarket Safari, 10:00-12:00 @ Antwerp Central Station -> MAS Box
– WORKSHOP: Tender Acts – A Celebration of Softness, 11:00-16:00 @ Ayu Antwerp
– WORKSHOP: ENSEMBLE – Food, Art & Community Dinner, 18:00-21:00 @ Lucy’s Antwerp
15/10 (Thursday)
– Edible Antwerp: Exhibition Entry (includes unlimited access to MAS Museum), 10:00-18:00 @ MAS Box
– Edible Antwerp: Conference + Exhibition Entry (with or without catering) (includes unlimited access to MAS Museum), 10:00-18:00 @ MAS Box
– WORKSHOP: Cooking workshops in preparation of the end of the world #beans, 12:30-13:30 & 19:30-20:30 @ Dingen die niet Verkopen
– WORKSHOP: The Sensory Coffee Continuum, 11:00-16:00 @ Ayu Antwerp
16/10 (Friday)
– WORKSHOP: Foodpilgrims Heritage Tasting Walk, 8:00-13:00 @ Frederek van Eedenplein -> Steenplein
How is EDIBLE structured?
Taking place across multiple cities in Belgium, the event combines a professional conference with a public festival programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops, tastings, and participatory experiences.
EXHIBITION ENTRY:
A public exhibition programme featuring internationally recognised food design projects, interactive installations, performances, and participatory artworks. Confirmed exhibitions include Museum of Endangered Foods, Rethinking Money: Seedbills, Food on Mars, and Baskets. Each installation invites visitors to reflect on the relationship between food, creativity, ecology, economics, and society through playful and thought-provoking experiences.
CONFERENCE ENTRY:
The conference programme features keynote presentations, panel discussions, debates, artist talks, and collaborative workshops. Themes include food and geopolitics, food heritage and identity, women in food, the protein transition, food security, urban food systems, and climate resilience. Rather than presenting these topics solely through academic or policy-based discussions, EDIBLE combines expert knowledge with artistic interventions. Thus, audiences can engage with complex issues through visual, sensory, and immersive experiences.
CATERING:
While tastings, demonstrations and public activities are included in the general (exhibition) entry, attendees need to opt-in for catering (lunch + aperitivo networking coffee break) at the time of booking.
SIDE EVENTS:
The EDIBLE programme extends beyond the conference venues into the city itself through collaborations with locally-based cultural and community partners.
EDIBLE collaborates closely with the MAS Museum through its exhibition Antwerp à la Carte, creating meaningful connections between the museum’s exploration of Antwerp’s food history and the festival’s focus on the future of food. A guided tour will be offered by the MAS Museum’s curator, Leen Beyers.
Visitors are invited to participate in a Multicultural Tasting Tour through Chinatown and Antwerp North led by Daphne Aalders (Kookatelier FoodForFoodies), exploring the city’s diverse culinary landscape and migrant food cultures.
On World Food Day, the festival concludes with the Food Pilgrims Heritage Tasting Walk, a 15 km guided journey from Rupelmonde to Antwerp curated by Jeroen van Vaerenbergh (De Foodarcheoloog), combining food heritage, storytelling, landscape, and sustainable tourism.
Additional activities include mindful cooking and edible beauty treatments at AYU Antwerp, coCreation Camps exploring the role of sound and smell in food perception in partnership with Arba-ESA in Brussels and the University of Antwerp, food art exhibitions and performances at Dingen die Niet Verkopen (DDNV), and the immersive ENSEMBLE Food + Art Dinner at Lucy’s Antwerp, where artists and audiences come together around participatory artworks, film screenings, and a shared dining experience.