Press, Speaking & Recognition
Press, Speaking & Recognition
Mycelium's practice shows up in award juries, foresight cohorts, government panels, university lecture halls, and the pages of academic journals. This is where to find it.
1 · Awards & Fellowships
APF Ingenuity Award — Association of Professional Futurists · 2023 TRANSFORM, our participatory and embodied foresight method, recognised by the Association of Professional Futurists for the Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation work.
NGFP Fellowship — School of International Futures (SOIF) · 2023 Estefania selected as a Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Fellow, joining a global cohort of futures practitioners working on systemic change.
2 · Select Publications
"Safe spaces to chart Collective Futures: the untapped potential of shared food preparation as a participatory futures methodology" — Compass Magazine, Association of Professional Futurists · 2024 Estefania's article introducing TRANSFORM as a participatory futures methodology — moving foresight conversations from post-its and flipcharts to shared food preparation. Includes the Navarra Manifesto, the Invisible × IBEX35 speculative dinner, and Mycelium's online community gatherings as worked examples. Compass Magazine, June 2024
"Reimagining Food Systems Through a Feminist Lens: Participatory Futures Reflections from the Global Majority" — Compass Magazine, Association of Professional Futurists · 2024 Co-authored with Abril Chimal (APF) and Thays Prado, drawing on a Mycelium-organised panel at the Women Who Futures conference (April 2024). Panelists: Jennifer Marsiglia Pastrana (Sabores & Saberes, Colombia), Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns (FAO), Verónica Escobar (FUDELA, Ecuador), Constanza Díaz del Castillo (BCC). Compass Magazine, December 2024
"Kitchens That Open to the World: Gastronomy Education, Used Futures, and South-to-South Knowledge Transfer" — Journal of Futures Studies (submitted May 2026) Co-authored with Constanza Díaz del Castillo, Dharath Hoonchamlong, and Maria Sahmkow.
3 · Speaking, Teaching & Panels
NGFP Foresight Course (FFC Cohort) — School of International Futures · May 2026 Invited speaker for the SOIF Next Generation Foresight Practitioners course.
APF First Friday — Association of Professional Futurists · July 2024 Member webinar for the APF community on Mycelium's foresight work and TRANSFORM methodology.
Tanging Tahanan Climate Leadership — Expert Guest · May 2026 Live session for a 12-week program designed for Filipino climate leaders.
Class on Emprendimiento y Nuevos Modelos de Negocio — La Sostenibilidad Hoy, UPNA · May 2026 External speaker turning food by-products into sustainable business propositions.
Master in Gastronomic Sciences (MCG) — Basque Culinary Center · 2025–2026 cohort Teaching contributions throughout the academic year
Fogón Futuro Festival — San José, Costa Rica · early 2026. Keynote: New Careers in Gastronomy.
Class series at UPNA (Día 1, Día 2) — Universidad Pública de Navarra · May 2026 Multi-day teaching on innovation, pitching, and field research with the UPNA cohort, led with Idoya Fernández.
Navarra Gastrosummit 2022 (NGS22) — Baluarte Congress Palace, Pamplona · October 26–27, 2022 "Gastronomía: herramienta de desarrollo territorial." Led group dynamics sessions with 20 young professionals from hospitality, tourism, agriculture, livestock, agribusiness, and digitalisation across Navarra — work that fed directly into the Sustainable Gastronomy Manifesto. Talk on YouTube.
Spot on Food 2024 — Krinova / Kristianstad, Sweden · October 3, 2024 The major Swedish food-innovation conference. Panelist on resilience alongside WFP & other innovators.
Mathias Dahlgren × Estefania Simon-Sasyk on Personalized Nutrition — 2021 live conversation between Swedish star chef Mathias Dahlgren and Estefania on the chef's role in personalized nutrition. Watch on YouTube.
TTS (Basque × Finnish entrepreneurs) — Online panel hosted by Mycelium · 2024 Mycelium-hosted online panel where Basque entrepreneurs shared experiences with Finnish counterparts.
Culinary Institute of Barcelona (CIB) — Jornadas de Futuro · February 2024 Workshop and panel on the future of gastronomy. Multiple sessions across 2024.
Emory University — United States · 2024 Standalone guest lecture.
PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) — Peru · 2024 Sustainability Summer Course
4 · Press, Podcasts & Features
Future Food with Analisa Winther — Podcast episode "On the ethics of food innovation" — listen on Spotify.
APF IF Awards Spotlight (Episode 183) — Podcast "Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation — APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight." Listen on Spotify.
Feminist Future Food Systems — YouTube webinar Watch on YouTube.
¿Qué quiere el consumidor? Perspectivas de tres continentes con expertos de la red Mycelium — YouTube Multi-expert webinar bringing Mycelium network voices across three continents. Watch on YouTube.
Collabs.io feature — Estefania Simon-Sasyk / Mycelium Gastronomy Network — read here.
Future Food Cast LinkedIn feature — "How Mycelium Gastronomy Network innovates in food systems and sustainability" — see post.
Heja Framtiden podcast #571 — Christian von Essen · January 2025 · (in English, ~13 min)"Estefania Simon-Sasyk: Transforming the food system from the inside." Recorded after the Spot on Food conference in Kristianstad. Listen on Apple Podcasts · YouTube · hejaframtiden.se.
GoSolo / Subkit feature — Founder interview "Mycelium Gastronomy Network — Estefania Simon-Sasyk."Read here.
Fugitive Chefs Podcast — hosted by Furqan Meerza · 2026 A long-form conversation on Estefania's path from Michelin restaurant kitchens (Mugaritz, Noma, and beyond) into food innovation, foresight, and building a global practitioner network. Furqan Meerza is a former Mugaritz/Noma chef now Senior Innovation Chef at Kraft Heinz, and his podcast explores chefs who've built careers beyond the line. Listen on Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · fugitivechefs.com.
The Food Fight — EIT Food Podcast #153 · February 5, 2025 · 51:40 "Food Trends 2025: Regeneration, AI, and the Future of What We Eat." Host Matt Eastland in conversation with Michelin-trained chef Estefania Simon-Sasyk and food-trends expert Ed Bergen on regenerative agriculture, food-as-medicine, AI in food innovation, waste valorisation, and the role of chefs as strategic food-system leaders. Listen + transcript.