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Jennifer Harden was born in 1974 in Düsseldorf. After school she spent one year in South Africa, where she looked after handicapped children. She studied Industrial Design at the Berlin University of the Arts UdK in the Institute of Product and Process Design and the Institute of Timebased Media. After her degree in 2001, she lectured on aesthetic and experimental practice at the IPP of the UdK. From 2004 until 2007, she freelanced at studio klv, Berlin, as a conceptual designer, developing interactive exhibitions, especially the Dynamikum, a science centre about movement.
Under the studio name trytes, she created an interactive shop window, which she designed for Apple, Opel and Nike. In 2006, her work was recognized by an award from the German Art Directors Club ADC.
Her future plans are focused on further developments of her German patent, a force feedback device.
Since 2008, she has lived with her family in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf.
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Projects
Vorsicht Höchstspannend! (The tension is mounting) : : : A tour of the exhibition : Video
A world of adventure about power, gas and water for the Stadtwerke Mainz AG.
Project management, concept and design. Freelance at studio klv, Berlin in 2006.
In the former power control station in Mainz, visitors become swith professionals themselves. Young staff members of the Stadtwerke Mainz AG (public services) modified the original switchboxes, which formerly supplied the city centre with power, into an exciting quiz interface. Interactive exhibits present the power, gas and water supply of the town.
Everything the visitors learn in the exhibition is later the subject of an energy quiz. Three correct answers given at each original switchbox by switching three buttons on or off, get rewarded with with a colored skylight.
Dynamikum : : : www.dynamikum.de
Science Centre on the theme of movement for the city of Pirmasens.
Exhibition concept, spatial design and exhibit development as a member of a team as well as preparation of the subject areas, Fast Nature and the Band of Movement in free collaboration at studio klv, Berlin in 2004-2007.
Moving something and moving oneself.
Blowing, jostling and throwing. Giving things the right impetus and experimenting with movement. Running, thinking and dancing. Experiencing one's own strengh in movement.
Here, in an area of approximately 4,000 square metres, on 2 levels, everyone can experience in a playful way what movement is all about. At 150 interactive experimenting stations, visitors become explorers and investigate natural and scientific phenomena. While doing this, they are active themselves all the time and learn through movement - and the other way around.