Gallery: A Gorgeous Vision of What Home-Grown Food Labs Would Look Like, in 2050

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    For her graduation project at London's Royal College of Arts, designer Johanna Schmeer has imagined the food of the future.
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    Her work is based off of research exploring how to make synthetic biological material that could be used for nutrition.
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    If developed properly, some bio-synthetic materials could host enzymes that photosynthesize and produce proteins, fiber, vitamins, sugar, and water.
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    In this imagined world, humans would get their nutrients from photosynthesizing pods and vessels.
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    "Food has this sensuality, so the idea was to replace it with a synthetic sensuality,” Schmeer says. For shape and color inspiration, Schmeer looked at images of bacteria and leaves under the microscope.
  • In Bioplastic Fantastic the theater of dining is gone—and presumably so is all the flavor. The point is to get calories...
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    In Bioplastic Fantastic, the theater of dining is gone—and presumably, so is all the flavor. The point is to get calories and nutrients for fueling up. Of course, it's all speculative: an off-the-wall proposition of what 2050 and beyond might be like.
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