Christy Spackman is Assistant Professor, jointly appointed between the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. Trained in molecular biology, food chemistry, the culinary arts, and food studies (Ph.D., NYU), Spackman’s work examines how the design and technological manipulation of sensory experience shape how people use, value, and react to the ingestible environment. She specifically focuses on how sensorial interactions shape individual and societal governance practices, with the aim of exploring what new futures might become possible if new approaches to shaping taste and smell emerge. She employs a theoretical and methodological commitment to critique and intervene in current practice at multiple scales. These interventions are grounded in offering alternative pathways forward for practitioners and the public in making better futures. To do this, Spackman draws together art and science throughout her work of 1) identifying how Sensory Ecologies function and impact health and well-being; 2) building awareness of and exploring how Sensory Labor and Politics function; and 3) developing new approaches to examine how sensing shapes Environmental Futures. Author of multiple papers, public-facing articles, and co-director of ASU’s art|science festival of futures, Emerge, Spackman is currently is finishing a book manuscript with the working title Making Nothing. You can find her on twitter: @christyspackman; or on the web: christyspackman.com. Otherwise she is probably in her research kitchen making flavorful futures.