Invisible — TRANSFORM Dinner 2100
We staged a speculative dinner for IBEX35 executives — a 2100 train ride through climate scarcity.
Client: Invisible
Sector: Corporate foresight · Speculative design
Service: Foresight (Transform)
Location: Madrid, Spain · Year: 2022
Result: A TRANSFORM dinner for executives of IBEX35 companies (Spain's 35 most-traded public companies) — a narrative train ride from Spain to Sweden in 2100, with edible artifacts that made water scarcity and biodiversity loss tangible enough to taste.
Climate strategy presentations to corporate executives tend to follow the same script: charts, scenarios, action items, fatigue.
The futures-strategic agency Invisible, led by Stef Silva, wanted something different for a session with executives of IBEX35 companies — they wanted those executives to feel the future their companies were planning for, not just talk about it.
The dinner achieved what conventional climate-strategy presentations rarely do: it broke through the executives' familiarity with the topic and prompted personal-stake conversations about the futures their companies were shaping. In our internal debrief, Invisible flagged it as a session they wanted to repeat.
The Challenge
How might we move a roomful of senior corporate executives from rational climate-strategy fatigue to felt urgency — through a single dinner?
How we tackled it
Building the narrative world
Invisible designed a complete narrative spine: a train ride from Spain to Sweden in the year 2100. Every element of the dinner — the soundtrack, the lighting, the table objects, the script — was built to drop participants into that world from the moment they sat down. Mycelium's job was the food.
The water-rationing jelly
The starting course was a gelatin block that participants were instructed to cut with millimetric precision — an embodied evocation of a future in which water is so scarce it is rationed to the gram. The cutting task slowed everyone down, hushed the room, and made the abstract concept of resource scarcity into a physical task. Participants found themselves talking quietly while they worked.
The wagashi finale
The cut jelly later became the garnish for a Japanese wagashi — a traditional confection shaped to resemble nature's forms (flowers, leaves, fruit). In our 2100 scenario, the wagashi symbolised a future where craftsmanship is one of the only ways left to honor life forms lost to climate change and biodiversity collapse. Beauty became an act of remembrance.
Shared meal and unstructured reflection
The session closed with a shared meal and an open conversation. Without the corporate framings they were used to, executives talked about their companies' role in the futures they had just inhabited.
Deliverables
Complete TRANSFORM session design and script (food side)
Two embodied food artifacts: the rationing jelly and the wagashi
On-site facilitation
Post-session debrief with Invisible
Methodology documentation for future iterations
Meet the Team Involved
Constanza Díaz del Castillo Velásquez
Mikel Olaizola
Stef Silva
Estefania Simon-Sasyk
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