Maggie Coblentz is a Canadian designer, researcher, and artist whose work explores how humans eat, live, and connect in extreme environments—especially in space. At MIT’s Media Lab, she led the Interplanetary Gastronomy project, developing tools, meals, and food systems for astronauts on long-duration missions. Her projects include fermenting miso in orbit, designing zero-gravity tasting menus, and creating bread-making systems for use beyond Earth. Maggie combines science, art, and storytelling to rethink the role of food in sustaining life and culture off-planet. She has worked in settings ranging from Arctic research stations to zero-G flights and international design labs. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, she invites people to imagine how food can support resilience, pleasure, and community—whether in a space capsule, a climate-challenged future, or here on Earth.