Sonia
Massari

Sonia Massari is the Academic Director at the Future Food Academy. .Dr. Sonia Massari has more than 20 years of experience as an educator,  researcher, consultant, and designer in the fields of human-food interaction design, sustainability education, design thinking and creative methods for innovative agri-food systems. She currently is a Research Fellow at Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (PAGE) at the University of Pisa; senior consultant at the Barilla Foundation and co-founder of the FORK Food Design Organization,  an international no-profit organization dedicated to food+design. Professor at ISIA Design School – graduate course: “Design for sustainable  scenarios”-   she taught for 5 years at Roma Tre University – a graduate course called “Sustainability Design Thinking” (from 2017 to 2022). In addition, she is a faculty member and visiting professor in several European universities (New School, RBS, BBS, ESTHE, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; UMASS Amherst, to mention a few). She holds a Ph.D. in Food Experience Design from the Engineering Department at the University of Florence and she has authored 50+ publications in scientific journals, reports, books, as well as articles in magazines. The title of her last book is: “Trans-disciplinary Case Studies on Design for Food and Sustainability” (2021, Elsevier). She is Vice President of ASFS ( Association for the Study of Food and Society), and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal on Food Design.