Stephanie Grey
she/her
Stephanie is a designer, educator and creative leader with a wide range of expertise in graphic design, accessibility, user experience, and communication strategy. She is a skilled practitioner and works with clients from diverse industries to craft brands and create impact for the screen, print and physical environments.
Stephanie teaches all levels of studio courses—from typography to experience design to advanced degree projects—in order to help students advance their understanding of the value of design. Her primary area of research investigates design for the senses as a means to create memorable and meaningful experiences for all users and participants. She is the founder of Stir Copenhagen: design, culture + your senses, a travel experience in Copenhagen, Denmark that offers insight on the elements needed to create sensory-based design.
A recent recipient of the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation grant, Stephanie will travel to Australia to study indigenous art and design in 2023. She has won international and national design awards and holds an undergraduate degree in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA (her hometown), and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently teaches full-time in the design program at Framingham State University and lives in Somerville Massachusetts with her family.
Sessions in which Stephanie Grey attends
Thursday 8 May, 2025
Emma Bruce ∆ (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada)"Mother palate (palette)" - Tasting Cultural IdentitiesI wish to propose my academic agenda as a burgeoning undergraduate student of culinary cultural studies. In establishing the multifaceted applications of sensory studies of food and eating as it is a prevalent area of research across all disciplines of the Arts and Sciences, I hope to contract attention to the insight individual sensory food percep...
Organizer: Leena Samin Naqvi with Danielle Wilde (Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design)In this workshop, participants will be tasked with: painting yoghurt on food safe butter paper; pegging it to a line, to dry; addressing an envelope to someone with whom they wish (or imagine) co- creating culture; adding a note, poem or desire, and yoghurt-making instructions that poetically detail the microbial and environmental meeting and making, noting what elements can (seemingly) be con...
Friday 9 May, 2025
Organizers: Nina Morris ∆ (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Kate McLean-MacKenzie ∆ (University of Kent, UK) Early Morning Smellwalk led by Kate McLean-MacKenzie. Starting in Mont Royal park at 6.00am this guided early morning smellwalk (limited to 10) will lead participants through the city’s ‘morning’ olfactory landscape. As a research methodology that involves exploring a place with a focus on the smells you experience, the goal...
Brian Glenney ∆ (Philosophy, Norwich University, UK)Animal Senses in the AnthropoceneThe mass of human-made things now exceeds the mass of natural things, a sign of our new Anthropocene age. This has introduced an array of sensory changes in animals’ perception of their natural climes. Human made structures now disrupt numerous animals’ flying behaviors, adding to the already disruptive human made light sources. Underwater boat motor sounds and radar pings interfere with ...
Organizers: Nina Morris ∆ (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Kate McLean-MacKenzie ∆ (University of Kent, UK)Plenary Participant Discussion: ‘Smell of Morning’What does the early morning smell like outdoors in the city? Is Montreal different from other locations around the world? Why does this time of day smell the way it does? How does it make us feel? In this plenary session, we will use a range of methods to interrogate and discuss ‘the smell o...
Saturday 10 May, 2025
Kristine Dizon (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University, Canada)Listening as Resistance: Decolonizing Sonic Poetry and the Politics of SoundThis presentation explores how decolonizing listening methodologies can serve as tools of resistance in sonic poetry. By examining the role of sound in reclaiming marginalized voices, this study argues that sonic poetry subverts traditional frameworks that often other non-Western practices. Using case studies such as Rose Co...
Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła (Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland)Feeling the Field: An Exploration of Multisensory Positionality in Visual Research on MigrationResearchers and participants enter the field with their feeling bodies, which both react to what they encounter and are, in turn, reacted to by those in the field. The meanings of these encounters are shaped cognitively and through knowledge acquired via sensory experiences. In mobility and mig...