what i do
Welcome to Sensoverse, led by sensory food designer Laila Snevele. Laila specializes in sensory experiences for the best chefs to implement sensory knowledge in their gastronomic storytelling. She uses speculative design as a tool to arrive to innovative ideas for the future. Laila actively shapes the future of food and restaurants, inspiring groundbreaking concepts that redefine tradition and our vision of food.
Sensoverse is a research and design studio that explore the future of food through the lens of sensory perception.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPEMENT
Research of a topic of your interest based on multisensory approach. We develop design proposals, solutions, speculations and experiences based on the results.
tableware and experience design
Based on your concept or idea, we create custom tableware and other eating tools for restaurants and events. We work with many materials and techniques to make ideas into reality.
workshops and consulting
We consult on your existing ideas or tools what possible sensory influences they might have on the overall experience allowing you to understand if that’s the effect you wish to achieve or what you can do to achieve your desired results. We give workshops on innovation and workshops on sensory use.
I WORK WITH BOLD, INNOVATIVE AND DARING CLIENTS WHO WANT TO PERFORM AHEAD OF THEIR
COMPETITION AND TIME.
DO YOU LIKE TO PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF YOUR FIELD AND YOU ARE NOT AFRAID OF NEW IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS?
I THINK WE WILL WORK WELL TOGETHER!
IT ALL BEGINS WITH
AN IDEA.
ABOUT LAILA SNEVELE
Laila Snevele is a sensory food designer and founder of Sensoverse, a food design studio in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. With a background from the Design Academy Eindhoven, Laila specializes in speculative design, creating innovative multisensory experiences for chefs, restaurants and food industry. She views bold and daring chefs as catalysts for change, using their culinary creations to convey complex ideas and global issues through all the senses.
Laila's work has gained international acclaim. In 2023, she gave a TEDx talk on the creative use of senses and perception at Hotelschool The Hague. Her expertise has been recognized by Instagram's @design channel, and she recently received the Core77 Runner-Up Award in Speculative Design above many other.
Her projects have been featured in renowned exhibitions worldwide, including the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, the Nemo Science Museum in Amsterdam, and Foodture in Barcelona. Laila frequently lectures on speculative and sensory design and organizes workshops to train aspiring designers besides working on new personal and commissioned projects.
Looking ahead, Laila aims to expand Sensoverse into a research and design hub, developing innovative sensory solutions for the food and creative industries and promoting multisensory approaches to drive innovation and interdisciplinary work.
“I see our senses as a free resource that we are not using the full potential of! I designs recipes for the brain.”