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Jennifer Magnolfi

Jennifer Magnolfi

Herman Miller

Jennifer Magnolfi is the Senior Integration Architect for Programmable Environments at Herman Miller. Her work focuses on the integration of programmability in architecture and building technology systems. In the last four years, her applied research and development work has focused on the commercialization of a programmable electrical infrastructure system, which in 2007 became Convia Inc. She currently leads the MacroSpace Initiative for Programmable Environments, developing innovative spatial technologies for future work and learning habitats. She is the co-author, with Jim Long, of Always Building: the Programmable Environment, published by the Herman Miller Creative Office in 2008. Previously, Jennifer was a Fulbright Scholar at The Interactive Institute in Sweden, researching networked environments and interaction design. She served as an instructor at the Lund Institute of Technology and advisor to the Star Design Program, a design and research collaboration between NASA and Lund University. Jennifer received a Master Degree in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Jennifer Magnolfi (Herman Miller)
The design and production of physical/digital spaces is at the heart of what we call the Programmable Environment. Instead of environments complete and fixed in time, subject to renovation or demolition when their purpose is no longer relevant, the result is a spatial system designed to evolve over time, in interaction with the users who inhabit it. Read more.
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