Jenny Rodenhouse is an interaction designer, researcher, and educator whose material is the verb, the action exchanged between a person and a computer. Her work spans interactive software, video, installations, and curricula that examine the semiotics of action and how computation shapes the way we perceive and inhabit the world.
She is the founder of HOUSE, a multidisciplinary design studio, and teaches in the Advanced Studies Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At ArtCenter College of Design, she is Associate Chair of the Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Undergraduate Interaction Design and serves as Faculty Director of the Immersion Lab, where she expanded access to emerging media and created pedagogy on understanding technology as a creative medium. She teaches as Associate Professor in Undergraduate Interaction Design and Graduate Media Design Practices at ArtCenter and has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
She graduated from Syracuse University’s five-year Industrial and Interaction Design program (BID) and received her MFA in Media Design from ArtCenter College of Design. Previously an interaction designer at Microsoft Research, Xbox Entertainment and Devices, and Windows Phone Advanced Development, she worked on the first Windows Phone platform, explored the future of transmedia entertainment, prototyped emerging gestural interactions, designed and shipped the Xbox 2011 interface, and built cross-platform social experiences for MSR and Xbox Live.
Her work has been shown at art, architecture, and design events including the Gaming episode of Netflix’s The Future Of; the Venice Architecture Biennale; Dutch Design Week; the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles; the Swiss Architecture Museum; the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture; and CHI.