Stefani Bardin
Stefani Bardin is an artist whose work is split between food + climate change projects and initiatives. Based in New York City she is a member at the New Museum’s cultural incubator NEW INC where she’s partnered with Smallhold to spearheaded design initiatives and the Matter House Restaurant Group for workshops on food and climate change. Her work has been featured in and commissioned by organizations including Wired Magazine, Scientific American, Art21, Forbes, Creative Time, The Bauhaus, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal.
As a professor of Food, Design, Technology + Climate Change in NYU’s Food Studies and Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Programs and Parsons Interactive Design Program she has worked with The James Beard Foundation, Rethink Food NYC and Brigaid on projects that developed scalable and actionable design outcomes that helped discover and respond to ruptures in the food system. She is also the founder of the project No Free Lunch through NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge a web platform that focuses on mapping the context and content of climate change issues, beginning locally with New York stakeholders and organizations working to address climate and environment related impact on our food system.
She is also the founder of the company blixt! A fully hosted SaaS platform for securely redacting and selectively sharing documents to multiple recipients at the same time, because keeping your data safe is not just about walls, it's about permissions. Comprised of a team of world class engineers and award winning designers they have built the next redaction platform for the modern workplace, a reverse mullet: party in the front, business in the back. Launching in fall 2020.