What is a delicacy? Something fowl to one might be appetising to another but more importantly, how will our feeding habits have to change in order to create a truly sustainable world. Lara challenges the idea and concept of western society's food and promotes insects farming as a better source of food, both for nutrition and environmental.
Lara Hanlon is a Designer based in Dublin, Ireland. She is passionate about delivering thoughtful user experiences and beautiful, innovative design solutions to complex problems.
While much of Lara’s full-time career to date has involved designing for enterprise at IBM Studios, and lecturing at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design + Technology (IADT) – the institute that awarded her a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Communications Design in 2013 – she is also interested in food innovation and sustainability.
In 2013, she designed and developed éntomo – an online platform that encourages Western society to explore insects as food! éntomo challenges cultural taboos that are associated with eating insects – a food source that has been celebrated as a viable solution to feed a growing global population.
Since its inception, éntomo has been awarded the New Star Award at Shenzhen Design Awards for Young Talents in China, organised in association with UNESCO Creative Cities Network
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