Emilie Baltz

Emilie Baltz, an immersive experience director and experiential artist, is currently the Creative Director and Global Practice Area Leader for Digital Experience at Gensler.

Best known for her work in using food as a medium (and metaphor) for designing experience, she works at the intersection of hospitality, performance, industrial design, and technology.

She is an award-winning artist, author, and public speaker with appearances at TEDx, DLD, PSFK Conference, Ignite Conference, Creative Mornings, TODAY Show, NBC, Wall Street Journal, D-CRIT, and more. Emilie is based in New York City and is part of the NEW LAB for emerging technologies & human behavior, as well as a founding member of NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator for art, design & technology hosted at the New Museum. She is also part of the founding faculty of the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA program, and the founder of the first Food Design Studio at Pratt Institute.

Emilie is the author of the award-winning “L.O.V.E FOODBOOK”, recipient of Best First Cookbook in the World at the Prix Gourmand held annually in the Louvre, Paris, as well as the nationally featured cookbook “Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand”.

She is a Sundance Lab New Frontiers Fellow and recipient of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Best Immersive Non-Fiction Award for EAT TECH KITCHEN, a playful performance that critiques human behavior through the mash-up of food, technology, and absurdity.

Education 
MID in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute
BA in Film Studies, Vassar College

Website
emiliebaltz.com

Twitter/Instagram:
@emiliebaltz

Course
Design Delight: Experience Design