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tofoodesign is a design duo founded in 2016 by my friend Yue LIU and myself in connection between Milan and Berlin.

We combine design and food through questioning and sublimating food-related behaviors in different cultural contexts, in forms of objects or activities. 

Project



2024 We.Wheat.Weave

2022-current Podcast 午夜干杯 MidnightToast

2022 Fourtune Desserts

2021 RISO.Edutainment

2020 Little Reunion

tofoodesign   infarm  Wanderer  Tofu Drink


We.Wheat.Weave
2024


Initiative project
Commissioned by: Singapore Design Week 2024

With the widespread adoption of hybrid breeding, led by major seed companies to boost yield and production stability, the diversity of seeds and traditional cultivars is steadily disappearing from modern agriculture.

We.Wheat.Weave is an ongoing research project that collects diverse wheat and cereal varieties from places I’ve lived and visited. Supported by the local community and using traditional weaving techniques, these materials are continuously crafted into a growing, basket-like sculpture that incorporates wheat ears, plant roots, and the weeds growing among the grains in each field.
This blend of materials creates a coarse, vibrant texture and shifting patterns, embodying a vision of ecological diversity and portraying my impressions of different fields.

The project has been presented as one of the special projects in the thematic exhibition area Eat: Transformative Seeds at Singapore Design Week 2024.







© 2024 Xijing Xu