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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.
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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