Thought Leadership Group

Sian Hurley is an Associate Professor of Culinary Arts whose creative and ambitious approach always produces something bigger than the sum of the parts. She takes her craft far beyond the core technical aspects. She is constantly seeking new ways to create the food experience and can place her output within almost any larger context: cultural, Indigenous, art, food science, local ingredients, etc. She worked with colleague Joel Feenstra and others to use laser-cutting technology to produce a gingerbread model of a First Nations longhouse — a creative and relevant variation on the traditional gingerbread house.