Join Climate Play for a global co-creation session on reimagining our food future – but with a twist. 

Let’s face it: there’s no shortage of conversations about the future of food…But how often do we get to truly think differently and playfully and make space for new possibilities to emerge—beyond business-as-usual?

This interactive online session – co-hosted by Climate Play and TheRockGroup – is not just another webinar. We will be using an innovative method, LEGO®️ Serious Play®️, where we will think with our hands to create a different conversation that takes us to different places.

It will be a nourishing and imaginative space for food system stakeholders – from policy makers to sustainability professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, and civil society – to come together and reimagine what a healthy, regenerative, fair, and joyful food future could look like.

NOTE: You will need to have some LEGO to use. It only needs to be a couple of handfuls of old bricks. The more varied the shape, size and colour the better. 

Together, we’ll explore ‘good old’ and bold new responses to some of the most urgent and complex challenges we face, combining systems thinking with hands-on creativity to unlock new insights, connections, and perspectives.

Our food systems are at a tipping point. We face rising rates of overweight and obesity, stubborn micronutrient deficiencies, and growing disconnection between people and the food they eat. At the same time, the way we produce, distribute, and consume food is accelerating biodiversity loss, depleting soils and water, and weakening the resilience of farmers and communities.

• But what if we saw this not only as a crisis – but as a call to creativity?
• What if we could improve nutrition and food literacy, empower consumers, shorten value chains, eliminate waste, and build a system where innovation and research thrive alongside care for nature and one another?
• What unique roles can we each play – individually and collectively – in sowing the seeds of a better food system?

So come build with us – brick by brick, idea by idea.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Anyone with a specialism or interest in food systems are welcome, whether globally or locally, growing, selling or consuming. This session is for those who are ready to pause and reflect, bring different forms of wisdom to the table, step up, and co-create a food system we know is possible.

LCAW EVENTS WITH CLIMATE PLAY

This event is part of a series of events during LCAW hosted by Climate Play and exploring how the innovative method, LEGO Serious Play, can help stretch our imaginations and bring new ideas and reflections into the light. By building our answers with our hands, rather than relying on familiar conversation, what difference will this make to where we go?  The method is a powerful tool to help unlock clarity, ingenuity and joining the dots on complex topics.

LEGO Serious Play is a method used in meetings and workshops to engage people, get them thinking differently and having a different conversation. Based on the use of LEGO bricks as metaphors, it is used to tell complex stories that unpack thoughts, feelings, beliefs, imagination and action plans on a range of topics and across a wide range of settings from business to government. It is a democratic approach to facilitation, where people listen and build equally, creating surprising depth and connection through simple brick-play.

YOUR FACILITATORS:

• Lucy Hawthorne, Founder, Climate Play. Lucy is a sustainability learning innovator using play to loosen up and energise how we think, talk and act on sustainability. She specialises in LEGO-based learning techniques to stir creativity and deeper engagement on hard-to-talk-about or hard-to-imagine issues within organisations and communities. At Climate Play she delivers the world’s only LEGO Serious Play training specifically focused on sustainability and is building a community of trainees, Climate Players, who are taking the method into organisations and communities to catalyse climate action.

• Lettemieke Mulder, Partner, TheRockGroup.

  Lettemieke is a passionate sustainability advisor, entrepreneur, and facilitator with over 25 years of hands-on experience driving cross-functional sustainability programs, with a special focus on the food sector.

  Her journey includes supporting Unilever’s tea brand Lipton to reach ‘100% sustainably produced’, collaborating with the Rainforest Alliance and engaging policymakers and NGOs. At SAI Platform, she led a multi-stakeholder initiative to secure the long-term supply of berries from Doñana, one of Spain’s most water-stressed regions. Currently, with TheRockGroup, Lettemieke supports the city of Turnhout in crafting its first food strategy and advises multiple food companies on developing and implementing robust sustainability strategies. Beyond her advisory work, Lettemieke is a guest lecturer on Sustainable Food System Transformation at EDHEC Business School in Lille, France, and serves on the Board of Rikolto, an international NGO dedicated to building resilient farmer organisations and sustainable food chains worldwide. As co-founder of Momentum Facilitation, she also designs and leads workshops that cultivate personal growth and human skills—the often-overlooked inner dimension of sustainability.