We transform the way
you perceive food everyday
We’re a creative consulting agency spearheading the global Food Design movement.
By uniting education and entertainment, we deliver meaningful messages through our diverse range of projects.
Work from of our Innovation Kitchen Studio in Mumbai!
If you are looking for a safe and clean environment for your team and want a comfortable space to meet with important clients, to prepare and shoot product photos or record videos, or to host workshops, tasting sessions or design sprints, you’re in the right place.
“The space is great! And the hospitality phenomenal! Just perfect for today.”
Federico Duarte
Innovation Strategy & Ventures Leader, Brooklyn, New York
Welcome to our Ecosystem
As an architect, I work with countless materials including stone, brick, wood, plaster, concrete and steel. But food is my absolute favourite material to work with – By considering not only food but also the space in which it is consumed, we create unforgettable multisensory experiences. Step into Sugar and Space to explore our products, experiences and services. Make your way through this interactive space to discover what drives us, meet the team and explore how we are transforming Food Design in India and around the world.
Love and Lollipops,
Jashan Sippy
Founder and Creative Director
Meet Jashan
Our Founder, Jashan Sippy, is a green building certified architect specialised in the design of spaces of food. His dissertation titled Gastronomy & Architecture: Multisensory Experiences formed the basis of the unconventional work we do at Sugar and Space.
Jashan pursued an M.Sc. in International Business from the HULT International Business School specialising in entrepreneurship. He is certified by the European Bartender School, Kyiv International Culinary Academy and has also been the food and space correspondent for The Dutch Institute of Food & Design.
In August 2020, he co-founded Food Design Nation, a digital platform which connects global food creatives to collaboratively design better futures of food. He is also the Director at the Online School of Food Design.
Welcome to our Ecosystem!
We are a creative agency specialising in food-related projects based between Mumbai, India and San Francisco, CA. We transform the way you perceive food everyday by combining the senses, architecture, sustainability and technology to create unforgettable experiences.
EAT Mondrian: Food x Art Experience
Based on the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's philosophy, our signature EAT Mondrian collection seamlessly combines food and the world of art to evoke artistic inquiry.
The Eating Experience: Guests make their way through five courses inspired by the Dutch artist's work. Through food and guided discussion, you will be immersed into Mondrian's art and the era in which he lived. EAT Mondrian is a great alternative to a museum or gallery visit and brings art history, culture, and a bit of jazz to the dining table.
The Edible Art Box: Let your creative juices flow! Mix and match a range of handcrafted 100% edible colours (and flavours) to bring your edible canvas to life. Microwave your signature artwork snack and enjoy your art like never before! The Edible Art Box is a great stress buster, a kid-friendly family activity, fun for groups and is also ideal for memorable date nights.
Architectural Food Tours: Instagrammable Cultural Walks
Explore iconic culinary landscapes, authentic urban lifestyles and experience your city on foot like never before. Feast on specially curated treats paired with marvellous architecture and capture these moments to up your Instagram game!
The Walking Experience: Guests make their way through a multisensory journey combining the senses, culture, history and architecture. Through food and guided discussion, you will be immersed into experiencing the built environment like never before. This is the perfect gift for anyone who’s new to the city or for city-dwellers who want to experience their hometown differently.
Eating Without Eyes: Multisensory Blindfolded Experience
A one-of-its-kind food experience designed to engage your senses. What sensations are heightened when you can’t use your vision to judge what’s on your plate?
The Blindfolded Dining Experience: Guest make their way through ten courses of varying smells, tastes, and textures, all while completely blindfolded. You will have ample time in between courses to process your experience and have some lively discussion with your group. At the end of the session, you will get to take home photos of your most memorable moments.
Nectar: Sustainable Performance Dessert
Embark upon a delicious and fantastical journey as you take on the role of bees in pollination in their quest to keep our ecosystems flourishing.
The Edible Tablescape: Guests make their way through five courses inspired by the Dutch artist's work. Through food and guided discussion, you will be immersed into Mondrian's art and the era in which he lived. EAT Mondrian is a great alternative to a museum or gallery visit and brings art history, culture, and a bit of jazz to the dining table.
Reusable Beeswax Wraps: We've partnered with Mumbai-based Crystazine Embroidery Studio to create a limited range of sustainable beeswax food wraps. Made of upcycled fabric, each wrap is unique, reusable and helps you get one step closer on your journey of conscious living.
Earthen: Immersive Outdoor Experience
For centuries, indigenous people have relied on the basic elements; earth, fire, water and air; to provide themselves with nutrition, shelter and clothing. Depending on the available local resources, weather conditions and culture, earthen food varies from one tribe to another. Immerse yourself in nature and become one with the land through Earthen.
The Immersive Experience: Guests rely on all their bodily senses; sight, sound, touch, smell and teste; to fully immerse themselves in the great outdoors, exploring indigenous global cooking techniques and unravelling lip smacking and unusual flavours. You will build your own earth ovens, forage for fresh produce and use slow cooking, grilling, and steaming techniques to celebrate raw food while learning the ways of the land.
Storytelling through Choux: Mixed-Media Creativity Workshop
Our minds typically rely on a change in scenery and sensory stimulation to break through creative blocks in order to find inspiration from new and varied sources. Choux pastry is an unassuming tool that has the power to keep that creator’s block at bay (not to mention it also gets your appetite rolling).
Mixed-media creativity workshop: This mixed-media workshop encourages you to find inspiration from the most unexpected places and to express yourself in a modality of your choice – writing, poetry, video, photography, painting, drawing, 3D modelling, dancing or beyond! You will make your way through a creative and reflective exercise, personalized to you, but with choux!
Share your Choux Story: Get in on the fun! Share the outcome of your creative storytelling journey through choux pastry. Enjoy a collection of stories created and narrated by participants during our previous Storytelling through Choux workshops.
Death Over Dinner: Uplifting Interactive Adventure
How we want to die – represents the most important and costly conversation most of us aren’t having. Embark upon an uplifting interactive adventure that transforms this seemingly difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight and empowerment.
The Facilitated Experience: Guests make their way through a curated meal that represents their 'Last Supper'. Through food and guided discussion, you will dive into the depths of what most of us push under the carpet - death. You will share your experiences, views and opinions, in a safe and friendly environment.
Food - Multisensory Experiences: Interactive Digital Workshop
Each of our bodily senses plays an important role in the way we perceive everyday food. But how aware of this are we? Could this awareness lead to innovative and unforgettable offerings in the eating place? By cutting off each sense and pairing it with an item of everyday food, Food: Multisensory Experiences aims to demonstrate this in an immersive, unforgettable way.
Eat//Sense Dining Experience: Guests make their way through five courses, each designed to engage different senses. A carefully choreographed combination of flavourful ingredients and sensory experience, Eat//Sense will transform the way you perceive food on your plate.
The Interactive Workshop: We carefully pair props and items of food and drink; to break down and demonstrate how ‘off-plate’ elements (including smell, sound, texture and other senses) play a role in the perception of flavour. This is an interactive, informative workshop supported by real examples, geared towards creatives working with food. Backed by the new-age research in the growing field of Gatsrophysics, a refined fine-dine experience is the practical application of this hands-on learning.
Mobile Mixology Lab
"Don't Drink on the Job",
they said. So we decided to go off the clock. Our signature Mobile Mixology Lab is here to demystify the complex science of creating mouthwatering cocktails by empowering you with all you need to get going behind the bar.
Effortless Bartending Experience: Our Mobile Mixology Lab consists of seven designated stations, each of which is key to creating unforgettable cocktails. Our MML System will ensure you can enjoy your party as a host, but also encourages your guests to get creative and personalise their drinks for an unforgettable evening - if they can still remember anything, that is!
MML Cocktail Rims: Mix and match a range of handcrafted 100% edible colours (and flavours) to bring your glassware to life. Choose from Shimmering Strawberry to Sour Citrus, from Savoury Spice to Bountiful Bitter. Elevate your cocktail drinking experience and wow your guests.MML Cocktail rings are fun for groups and ideal for memorable date nights. They are even kid-friendly and can make mocktails and alcohol-free drinks extra special.
3D Printed Food Tasting + Demonstration
How far are we from having devices like the Star Trek’s Replicator in our home kitchens? It may well be a few years before 3D food printers sit on our kitchen countertops, but we at Sugar & SPACE extend our offerings from pixels to plate. Using our food and design expertise, we bring to you Edible Bytes, India’s premier 3D printed food.
3D Printed Food Demonstration and Tasting Experience: A customised immersive tasting experience like no other. Get exclusive access to our 3D food printer and engage in a mind-boggling process as we print customised edible designs for you and guide you through the process of 3D food printing. This is perfect for intimate groups, birthday parties, anniversary celebrations and for kids!
3D Food Printing Masterclass: In this masterclass, we will understand how a 3D food printer works, explore printable food materials, the advantages and challenges of 3D printing food and the scope of 3D food printing in the contemporary market. Finally we will look at what the role of a 'food technologist' could entail.
Edible Bytes - Delivered: Get mouthwatering, stunning, delicious and nutritious 3D printed food delivered to your doorstep. These are a series of unique, attractive and delicious edible patterns, designer snacks and beautiful dishes. They range from sweet to savoury and everything in between. We print fruit preserves, butter sculptures, mousses, purees, chocolate, cookies, crackers and more!
Coming Soon: Ovulate - Food x Women's Health
Dr. Esha Chainani, OBGYN and Jashan Sippy have brought their diverse expertise together to bring Ovulate: Your evidence-based guide to understanding how food and lifestyle can help you thrive through every stage of reproductive health.
Woman's Potluck: A series of periodical themed gatherings based on the contents of Ovulate. Each Woman's Potluck has a rotating theme and provides a judgement-free space for women of all ages to learn, share and exchange personal experiences about all things women's health. The best part? It's over delicious food and drink, celebrating the good life!
The Guidebook: A holistic compilation holistic management tips and tricks, Ovulate addresses how food and lifestyle can help you thrive through PMS, PCOS, Fertility, Pregnancy, Feeding and Menopause! An investment guaranteed to improve your life, Ovulate is the perfect gift for women of all ages - your mother, your sister, your wife, your girlfriend and even your best friend!
Gastronomy and Architecture: Multisensory Experiences
Gastronomy and architecture as the sublimation of nutrition and shelter are creative solutions that have the ability to provide pleasure and therefore sustain and enrich our everyday lives. Several similarities exist between the two artistic disciplines as professions and processes of design. This research explores a selection of connections between the two fields as a means of discovering what might be learned in the field of architecture from gastronomic pursuits in a light-hearted and palatable manner.
Center for Artisanal Gastronomy: This award-winning presentation was created entirely out of cake, confectionary and edible material. The Center for Artisanal Gastronomy proposes built-for food structures using all natural materials including mycelium (mushroom) bricks, mastic waterproofing, Himalayan Pink Salt block seasoning and coconut cladding. Each building is carefully flavour-profiled to simulate a holistic experience based on the sensorial attributes of the proposed architectural space.
The Book: Unravel how quality of lighting, background sounds, colour, materials and ambient temperature, indoors in an elaborate dining room or out in the open, affect the perception of flavour, and the eating experience. Through first-hand and theoretical research, case studies and multisensory experiments, Gastronomy & Architecture: Multisensory Experiences unveils how the built environment that we interact with food in affects the way we perceive it.
Book a Private Consultation
Have questions about our experiences? Want to host one yourself? Need us to customize an experience for you? Let's grab a (virtual) cup of coffee and explore how we can work together!
Al Dente Wall
An interactive installation created using upcycled pasta. For our first Al Dente Wall (Mumbai, March 2019), we used 25 kilograms of boxed pasta (elbow macaroni) past its expiration date, which was sourced from local mom-and-pop shops. The ready-to-install handcrafted modular panels featured 28,800 pieces of waste macaroni spanning 18 feet long and 4 feet high. The installation is brought to life with simple and tasteful LED backlighting.
Your Al Dente Wall: Our Signature Al Dente Walls are not only interactive in person but also photogenic and make it to many visitors’ Instagram feeds. They are a remarkable way to engage with customers online and in person. They can be customized and delivered ready-for-installation. Treated with shellac for preservation and prolonged durability, we also provide maintenance packages.
Scratch 'n Sniff Panels
An interactive installation designed for multisensory engagement. Remember the scented pens you wrote with when you were young? Or the satisfactory pleasure of scratching off the silver from a lottery ticket? Our scratch and sniff wall panels are the perfect way to engage an audience, irrespective of their age.
Your Scratch 'n Sniff Wall: Walking into a patisserie, bakery, ice cream parlor or frozen yogurt store, a perfumery or a cosmetics and beauty store, our senses are switched on. Textures, colors, aromas – you just want to eat everything. Our panels are not only customizable, economical, fire resistant and organic but also quick to install. Imagine the delight on the faces of your consumers as they scratch, sniff and savor the flavors of your products!
Spirulina in Space
An interactive installation designed for interplanetary travel. Space travellers spend months confined in a single spacecraft. As a result, they face boredom, frustration and lose interest in essential activities such as eating. Interactive installations using spirulina capsules can be fitted into spacecrafts to provide edible entertainment for space travellers.
The Interplanetary Cookbook: Coming soon!
Setting The Table
An exploration of eating rituals across cultures that goes far beyond four legs and a surface. We have studied table settings across cultures, social instances, settings and eras. There’s a lot more than what meets the eye when it comes to setting the table right to deliver unforgettable experiences.
Setting the Multicultural Table: A series of cross-cultural multi-cuisine pop ups, juxtaposing traditional foodways, diverse rituals and unforgettable eating experiences rooted in identity.
Cook Along Experiences
An exploration of eating rituals across cultures that goes far beyond four legs and a surface. We have studied table settings across cultures, social instances, settings and eras. There’s a lot more than what meets the eye when it comes to setting the table right to deliver unforgettable experiences.
Setting the Multicultural Table: A series of cross-cultural multi-cuisine pop ups, juxtaposing traditional foodways, diverse rituals and unforgettable eating experiences rooted in identity.
Our Work: Public, Private and Corporate Events
We host public, private and corporate events in-person in Mumbai, San Francisco and Barcelona, and online globally. Choose from a range of signature Sugar and Space experiences, host them yourself with our Experience Toolkits or reach out to us for a customized theme. We’ve hosted multisensory blindfolded dinners, art-inspired sit-down meals, uplifting conversations around death, outdoor immersive cooking experiences and sustainability-focused eating performances in India, California, The United Kingdom, Spain, Uganda and Taiwan. Our clients include Adidas Originals, Ministry of New, WeWork, Airbnb Experiences.
You can join our growing international community and become a Sugar and Space Superhost yourself.
Lancet Lunch
An exploration of eating rituals across cultures that goes far beyond four legs and a surface. We have studied table settings across cultures, social instances, settings and eras. There’s a lot more than what meets the eye when it comes to setting the table right to deliver unforgettable experiences.
Setting the Multicultural Table: A series of cross-cultural multi-cuisine pop ups, juxtaposing traditional foodways, diverse rituals and unforgettable eating experiences rooted in identity.
Meet Ishita
Ishita is the Creative Chef at Sugar and Space. She works closely with Jashan to bring his creative visions into edible form and leads the production for our events in Mumbai. We constantly innovate in the kitchen, reconsidering 'waste' and create whimsical outcomes including printable edible inks.
Architecture and Interior Design
A green-building certified architect specialized in the design of spaces of food, Jashan has worked on cafes, restaurants, grocery stories, well known hotels and motels, commercial kitchens, studio kitchens, residential kitchens, bars, wineries and even marijuana plantations in the Bay Area and Mumbai. We are committed to delivering architectural spaces that are not only environmentally and user-friendly but also accessibile, tasteful and aspirational. Want to bring the space of your dreams to life? Book a free 30-minute session with Jashan now.
Blog/Pantry
Whether you want to know more about Setting the Table, explore cultures and stories of nostalgia through Food, the Feeling of Home or are curious about all things edible flowers, bees and honey, read further!
Artisanal Workshop
We perform a range of hands-on activities and work with various architectural and building construction materials to deliver a range of creative projects. As an architect, Jashan continues to work with wood, stone, brick, concrete, steel, glass and plaster to support our architecture, installation and large-scale endeavours.
Take My Project to The Next Level
Like what you see? Want to work with us on your next project? We'd love to hear from you!
Our Work: Lectures, Talks and Workshops
Jashan is a keen public speaker and thrives on sharing know-how and unique perspectives on food and design. He has spoken at the Ministry of New in Mumbai, the Food Design Festival 2021 in Madrid, the Food Design Webinar series by Dr. Francesca Zampollo in Italy, Galome Elevation Talks in San Francisco and FoodTalks at Master Food Design ESHTE in Portugal. Jashan regularly lectures at universities of design, hospitality, entrepreneurship and anthropology across the globe including California College of the Arts, University of San Francisco, ISDI, Academy of Architecture and Don Bosco College of Hospitality Studies in Mumbai.
Meet Suubi
Suubi leads Global Strategy and Partnerships at Sugar and Space San Francisco. She is a keen host and rolls out Sugar and Space experiences across the Bay Area.
Meet Mia
Mia is the Sustainability Advisor at Sugar and Space. Based in Oslo, Norway, Mia is a consultant of climate change and sustainability. Mia hosts talks and interactive Sugar and Space workshops globally.
Explore Projects
We work with a multidisciplinary team of chefs, architects, sustainability experts and designers to deliver a range of creative projects centred around food, architecture and the eating human being. We constantly research the use of sustainable and edible materials in construction and interior design, focus on building meaningful connections while curating eating experiences, and believe strongly in raising awareness and promoting multisensory education.
Architecture and Installations
Whether you are a chef or restaurateur, we’ll work with you to bring your dream space to life. We specialize in designing kitchen studios, commercial kitchens, and unusual concept-driven spaces of food. Jashan has extensive experience working on hospitality projects across the Bay Area including restaurants, grocery stores, wineries, motels and hotels including Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Avid, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, Springhill Suites, Fairfield, Aloft Hotels, Moxy Hotels, Marriott Townplace Suites.
Events and Experiences
We host public, private and corporate events in-person in Mumbai, San Francisco and Barcelona, and online globally. Choose from a range of signature Sugar and Space experiences, host them yourself with our Experience Toolkits or reach out to us for a customized theme. We’ve hosted multisensory blindfolded dinners, art-inspired sit-down meals, uplifting conversations around death, outdoor immersive cooking experiences and sustainability-focused eating performances in India, California, The United Kingdom, Spain, Uganda and Taiwan. Our clients include Adidas Originals, Ministry of New, WeWork, Airbnb Experiences.
Talks and Educational Workshops
Jashan is a keen public speaker and thrives on sharing know-how and unique perspectives on food and design. He has spoken at the Ministry of New in Mumbai, the Food Design Festival 2021 in Madrid, the Food Design Webinar series by Dr. Francesca Zampollo in Italy, Galome Elevation Talks in San Francisco and FoodTalks at Master Food Design ESHTE in Portugal. Jashan regularly lectures at universities of design, hospitality, entrepreneurship and anthropology across the globe including California College of the Arts, University of San Francisco, ISDI, Academy of Architecture and Don Bosco College of Hospitality Studies in Mumbai.
3D Printed Food
Our 3D food printer makes us a mobile manufacturing unit. We transform food waste into edible inks and 3D print delicious, nutritious and stunning designer food – Edible Bytes. We host 3D food printing tasting and demonstrations, cater small-scale events and even create edible prototypes for private and corporate clients – whether you want to spoil a loved one, peak the interest of your child or wow your clients, this is for you!
Creative Strategy and Consulting
We love a challenge. If you are a like-minded brand and love what you see – reach out to us. We’ve worked with our clients for a range creative strategy and consulting projects including handling events and partnerships at Ministry of New, contributing to the Interplanetary Cookbook for the MIT Media Lab, consumer experience and packaging design for Madrid-based sushi-burrito brand Burrimaki, and mobilizing a global community of chage-makers at Food Design Nation. Let’s grab a (virtual) cup of coffee and see how we can create magic together.
I am a green building architect
specialized in the design of spaces of food. I presented a completely edible architectural walk through of my dissertation and research – Gastronomy & Architecture: Multisensory Experiences.
I’ve worked as an architect in the Bay Area after which I pursued an M.Sc. in International Business specializing in entrepreneurship. I gained tremendous managerial and customer service experience at Candytopia, a made-for-Instagram pop up art installation inspired by candy in San Francisco.
I am certified by the European Bartender School and Kiev International Culinary Academy, and have been the food and space correspondent for the Dutch Institute of Food and Design. I am also the co-founder of Barcelona-based Food Design Nation, a platform for global food creatives to collaboratively design better futures of food and the Director of the Online School of Food Design.
“Sugar and Space has been providing me and my students with fun and educational immersive food experiences for about a year now, and it has been a wonderful experience every time! Jashan provides a unique cross-cultural perspective that is very relatable to any type of student and is not just a speaker or facilitator, he works with you as a partner to collaborate and support one another’s work through our aligned interests. I am looking forward to more events with them.”
Mayo Buenafe-Ze
Co-Director of Cultural Anthropology Program, Critical Diversity Studies, University of San Francisco, California
“Sugar & Space provided me with good resources, guidance and support to enable me to be the best possible host and have a lot of fun altogether with it. Next to that, there was room for implementing my own ideas and turn the experience into a unique event!”
Elise Coudré
Eating Designer and Experience Host, Barcelona, Spain
“Sugar and Space is a one of a kind creative business. I have worked with them on many levels. As a guest and as a collaborator. On each occasion, Jashan has ensured that Sugar and Space has gone above and beyond, delivering a multisensory experience like no other. From Eating Without Eyes, to meal meditations, his concepts are unique and exciting of course, but also seamlessly executed. A true tribute to food, design and often architecture.”
Afsheen Dattoobhai
Life Coach and Executive Coach, Founder Whistle, Mumbai, India
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