Jennifer Sigler
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Jennifer Sigler is an American editor and cultural producer based in Rotterdam and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She leads and supports the creation of books, exhibitions, events, and multimedia projects as platforms for interdisciplinary exchange.
From 2013–2019 she was editor-in-chief at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she revamped and oversaw 10 issues of Harvard Design Magazine among many other publications. She also overhauled New Geographies journal; launched the series Harvard Design Studies, and created the Studio Reports collection, producing over 30 volumes in collaboration with faculty, visiting critics, and students.
While at the GSD, Sigler founded the experimental spoken-word series The Incidents with Leah Whitman-Salkin, originally designed by Åbäke. The sixth Incident, with Virgil Abloh, entitled Insert Complicated Title Here, was presented at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale with a festive "live print" of limited edition covers at the renowned Venetian print house Grafiche Veneziane. The book was later selected as a winner in the AIGA's 50 Books 50 Covers competition.
Sigler began her career in the Netherlands, as editor of Rem Koolhaas's seminal monograph S,M,L,XL (Monacelli Press, 1995), working in close collaboration with designer Bruce Mau, in Toronto. She later become editorial director at the Berlage Institute, an international postgraduate center for architecture and urbanism, where she started the journal, Hunch, in collaboration with dean Wiel Arets and Roemer van Toorn, and edited its first seven issues. With Van Toorn, she also co-curated the Berlage's exhibition "Beyond Mapping: Projecting the City" at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.
From 2008—2010 she was editorial director and public program curator of the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam (IABR), Open City, curated by Kees Christiaanse, and co-editor of the book Open City: Designing Coexistence (SUN Publishers, 2009). Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen, the book was awarded honorable mention in the 2010 edition of the Leipzig "Best Book Design from all over the World" competition, and was featured in the 2010 Best Dutch Book Design exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Jennifer has also worked with the Why Factory, a design research laboratory at TU Delft founded by Winy Maas of MVRDV; the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA); Rotterdamse Schouwburg; the Netherlands Architecture Institute; REX Architecture; 2x4; With Projects; Diamond Schmitt Architects; Frontier; the Harvard Office for Sustainability; and many others. She was the recipient of a grant by the Dutch Fund for Art and Architecture for research into Domestic Labor and Design, which grew out of a collaboration with performance artists Simone Aughterlony and Jorge León on "To Serve" in 2010.
She has lectured at the Architectural Association, London; the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Beyond Media Festival, Florence, Italy; the New Institute, Rotterdam; and other venues.
Sigler currently works at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and consults on publications and other projects related to design, culture, and the built environment.
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