A Guide to Wonder: unravelling Wonderfruit 2025

A festival grown from the land

Since we began rewilding in 2022, we’ve planted 32,514 trees throughout The Fields, beginning with the Ancestral Forest. Last year, we planted a Medicinal Plant Village and a Yang Na Forest, whose saplings now rise over a meter tall, marking time through growth. These plantings serve a deeper purpose: creating spaces where community can gather to explore nature, create with it and realize our harmony within it in timeless and exciting ways.

This year, we’re deepening our commitment to rewilding, and planting 5,000 more trees throughout The Fields, expanding our bamboo barrier to control dust and restoring life to the water’s edge with nearly 1,000 new plants. Thanks to generous rains, much of this flora is being sourced from regeneration within our own land—creating a self-sustaining cycle.

Our land is also giving more than ever—and we’re making sure nothing goes to waste. This year, we’re using what we’ve grown: harvesting jackfruit, mango, banana, coconut, papaya and figs year-round, preserving produce for the live dates and feeding the experience from the ground up. The Ancestral Forest is also yielding its first proper harvest with berries in wild abundance.

Learning to be resourceful

Rather than reusing what we waste, we’re focused on eliminating it altogether. Last year, around 25,000 people generated 49.29 tons of waste at Wonderfruit. This year, we’re tackling a paradox: increasing the number of people in The Fields while reducing how much waste we generate.

That said, for three consecutive years, we’ve sent nothing to landfill—through efforts like recycling, reusing and composting what waste we’ve generated. so we’re scaling these efforts further. We’re expanding shaded composting areas to enable year-round operations in The Fields, which mimics natural decomposition by balancing carbon-rich and nitrogen-rich materials. We turned hay bales used for seating at Wonderfruit into key composting ingredients alongside trimmed vegetation from onsite maintenance and over five tons of food waste from live dates. These materials now fuel our daily composting operations and field maintenance.

We’re also enhancing our F&B operations by implementing zero-waste bar systems across additional venues, while introducing reusable napkins in restrooms to reduce biohazard waste. Combined with our carbon-neutral status, which we have maintained since 2018, these initiatives bring us closer to our ultimate goal: achieving true zero waste and nothing sent to landfill.

Spaces for human expressions

The physical spaces of Wonderfruit are as much a part of the experience as the events themselves. With more than 40 venues already established, this year introduces new and evolved architectural landmarks, each manifesting ways to connect.

Together, they represent our commitment to structures that grow with the land, where architecture becomes embodied philosophy connecting people to place, community and culture.

Living Village—where Creature Stage stands—is being reimagined by Design Qua to accommodate more than 2,000 guests in an amphitheatre-style venue within a freshly landscaped space with enhanced acoustics designed to reactivate the park environment. New gathering areas invite collective connection to communal sound experience.

We’re adding a new Molam Theatre to our beloved Molam World. Designed by PO-D architects, the venue becomes a permanent cultural anchor within The Fields. Built from repurposed Thai timber, this space honors Isaan community traditions while hosting new forms to express Molam and performances, workshops and rituals.

Baan Bardo is a brand-new pavilion that embodies our philosophy on cultural exploration as a way of life—a maze-like structure featuring kinetic panels that reshape both physical spaces and metaphysical perceptions. Named after the Tibetan concept of bardo, meaning the transitory state before rebirth, it aims to capture the liminal energy of this transformation. Designed by artist Wit Pimkanchanapong, this new environment incorporates multiple programming layers, including Dhyana rituals and Sonic Minds experiences and much more, inviting Wonderers to navigate both physical pathways and inner landscapes as they journey through shifting realms of awareness.

Learning to listen carefully

In recent years, we’ve spent a lot more time exploring how frequencies and sounds can affect mood and provoke emotion by introducing more experiences that demonstrate music’s ability to heal, inspire and connect us. This year, we’re going to play with this idea more and connect musicians with artists from other disciplines to create hybrid experiences where sound is simply the foundation for entirely new forms of creative expression.

Hundreds of eclectic artists—both new and returning—will be performing this year. We explore many diverse styles from across the globe and regions as cultural exchanges that celebrate live performance as dialogue between traditions, reflecting our commitment to discovery.

Sonic Minds programming, created with MSCTY Studio, is expanding to additional venues to deepen the integration between sound and wellness across the site. This initiative brings together musicians, scientists, artists and spiritual professions, finding new ways that music can be medicine.

Exploring new ways of thought and wisdom

From day one, we’ve thought of Mind as territory for both individual exploration and collective experience. As we celebrate a Decade of Wonder, our exploration of Mind is expressed through so many mediums, and represents our accumulated journey into consciousness as a creative force, communal field and healing practice.

Wonderness is the heart and Axis Mundi of Wonderfruit. This year, it becomes the center of the Torus Energy Field—a self-sustaining pattern symbolizing the culmination of our ten-year journey and the beginning of our next one. Practices and workshops flow through Wonderness, opening pathways inward to connect outward. The Heart Field Resonance Circle—a workshop guiding heart-mind coherence—spiral movement practices, breathwork and somatic meditations invite deeper states of presence.

Rooted in Thai traditional wisdom and healing, our hidden herbal enclave, Medicinal Plant Village, expands with new modalities, connecting Wonderers with well-being and nature.

A newly introduced Alchemy Circle provides a ceremonial gathering space, where ancient plant wisdom is explored through non-alcoholic herbal elixirs and botanical infusions.

Dhyana’s programming around the concept of ‘Echo’ explores the interplay of experience and illusion. By creating a mandala of senses, Dhyana invites Wonderers to connect to Mind through ceremonies, performances and workshops that highlight sight, sound, taste, touch, scent, mind and ritual celebrations.

Stories to eat

This year, kitchens are merging with creative practices. New and returning chefs are collaborating to cross-pollinate history, culture and creative disciplines, creating new expressions that are celebrated through flavors. Food becomes more than just a meal—it’s approached as medicine for both body and mind, mixing traditional healing wisdom with modern cooking techniques. Mind, Sound and Nature overlap and land on our plates to create delicious dining experiences that challenge how food is usually experienced.

Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi, in collaboration with Made by LERT and RR Studio, will lead the design and debut of a mobile kitchen that moves to a new landscape for every meal and explores the intersections of art, food and nourishment.

Wonder Kitchen, our home for communal dining, is relocating to a scenic spot opposite the orchard, featuring expanded seating with mountain views and expanded workshop space to bring you closer to the chefs.

At Open Kitchen, Pa Chan will be joined by Lady GooGoo to create a women-led culinary ecosystem that takes over both floors of the venue. Their menus and workshops will celebrate regional flavors in spaces decorated with materials sourced from earthquake-affected villages in Myanmar, complemented by an expanded workshop program for interaction and collaboration.

Molam World, our home for Northeastern culture, now focuses exclusively on regional cuisines—showcasing authentic dishes from Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Shan kitchens.

Living through the arts

Throughout The Fields, art installations and performances invite deeper participation and presence, encouraging Wonderers to change pace and interact with the art and one another.

We’re adding new Social Interventions designed by Ab Rogers Design and collaborating designers. These spaces are designed to break the rhythm of Wonderfruit, encouraging play and a slower pace of exploration.

Celebrated Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak’s ‘Gathering Tables Wonderfruit’ transforms communal dining into an elemental experience, featuring art installations that serve as stone tables within the Ancestral Forest. Here, sharing meals becomes ritual among the trees, offering a place to connect and gather alongside nature.

Unconditional Space will dive into the state of being present and being together. Welcoming multiplicity, the arts program will examine our times through the prism of a kaleidoscope, symbolizing the ever-changing and endless possibilities contained in the human experience. The space continues to expand its multisensory kaleidoscope of creative practices that nurture communal gatherings, inspire new ways of being, and envision sustainable modes of planetary coexistence.

Building relationships

As we mark this milestone, we reflect on a journey impossible to walk alone—we are humbly aware that a decade of dreams has been realized through shared visions and collective efforts. Our deepest gratitude extends to the collaborators who’ve not only supported our journey but actively co-created it. This anniversary becomes both a reflection and an invitation to kindred folks ready to join our evolution.

This year, we’re partnering with Thammasat University’s architectural department to create educational opportunities, while supporting design and ecology. Architecture students are designing and constructing an interactive bamboo structure in The Fields as part of their yearly curriculum.

Under joint masterclass supervision from Wonderfruit, Giant Grass design studio and university faculty, students will source and build sustainably while determining whether their creation will integrate permanently into the landscape or naturally return to the earth.

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