🌱How can we develop sustainable food systems? Open questions like this call for creative ideas. But training programmes for future professionals in fields like food economics have rarely prioritised creative skills. Anke Strauß is one of the people changing this. At Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, near Berlin, Germany, students in a new bachelor’s programme on cultures of food and farming do learn a lot about topics such as soil quality, value chains, or organic production methods as seen from science and technology. But right in the first semester, they also take a course where they explore artistic approaches under Anke’s guidance.