Living Symbiosis

At Vienna Design Week and Future Food Week, RAT brought an existential ecological dialogue to life through an all-white culinary installation, turning Hundertwasser's radical Mould Manifesto into a tangible biological critique. To stage this terrain, we developed a monochromatic dining environment around a custom biomaterial architectural structure, realized in direct collaboration with Flexi Studio. These custom elements set the stage for an unexpected food experience. Inside the biomaterial setup, guests tasted an all-white menu that highlighted how crops are losing their natural color due to heat stress and modern farming. By keeping everything strictly white, the food challenged the way we eat with our eyes, turning an environmental warning into a dining experience.