Collaboration among designers, a culinary training academy, and a software company is demonstrating how design can catalyze research and create systemic change. The project emphasizes the importance of user voices while integrating insights on digital and AI literacy, which may influence broader policy and governance. Such initiatives exemplify how planned design interventions, as advocated in Dan Hill's concept of 'Dark Matter and Trojan Horses', can lead to significant outcomes and innovations within a collaborative framework.