Food Innovation Kids Lab

The Future Food Institute (FFI) created the Kids Labs with the aim of proposing an innovative and disruptive model of food education for the youngest food innovators starting from the age of five.

OUR METHODOLOGY: working directly with Reggio Children, FFI designed the program based on Reggio Approach. FFI views children as competent, curious, full of knowledge and potential who approach obstacles with a unique lens, often coming up with solutions that are unperceived by adults. Kids Labs engage children in open-ended experiments so they can engage with food naturally and easily, inspiring in themselves a better relationship with food and in adults unprecedented inspiration and solutions to food problems at any level.

OUR CONTENT: The Kids Labs also make use of the Seeds of Disruption Map from IFTF and Design Thinking methodology from Stanford d.school to explore new solutions to existing problems throughout the whole value chain from how food is produced, manufactured, distributed, sold and consumed. Design Thinking empowers a solution oriented mindset from an early age, enables socialisation and community creating and boosts creativity through the use of alternative ways of expression.