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Maggie Coblentz is a researcher and designer from Canada, currently based in Svalbard. Her work spans a wide spectrum, from space exploration, to interplanetary gastronomy, to machine ethnographies in the Arctic. Coblentz’s research practice has included flying on zero gravity research flights, an experiment in the International Space Station, and Arctic expeditions. 

Coblentz is a research affiliate at the MIT Space Exploration Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she specializes in interplanetary gastronomy and space culture. At MIT she has managed research programs and deployments for zero gravity flight campaigns, astronaut health and wellbeing, extreme environments research, and launched an entirely new program for the Arctic Space Analog Expedition in Svalbard. She collaborates across multiple disciplines with scientists, engineers, artists, chefs, and filmmakers. 

Coblentz has a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been invited to share her work at Harvard, Yale, New York University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, Basque Culinary Center, and Berklee College of Music. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, US; World Expo 2020 Dubai, Dubai, UAE; Museo M9 Mestre, Venice, Italy; and MAXXI, Rome, Italy. Coblentz’s work has been featured in WIRED Japan and the cover story of WIRED.