About me

Hi! My name is jenny filipetti and I’m a community-centered artist + designer. I bridge physical + digital worlds through participatory processes, creative technology, wayfinding, and experience design.

I’ve been making with technology for over twenty years, from Web 1.0 to early artificial intelligence models in the mid-2000s, and later custom programmed interactive machines and systems in the mid twentyteens. My creative work explores our evolving sensory ecology: how humans, machines, and other non-human entities perceive, interact with, and affect one another in the spaces we increasingly share. Some projects propose new kinds of sensory experiences, tools, and instruments. Others are more about the process, seeking to enter into alternative intelligences + creativities… those of machines, yes, but also those of snails, colours, and the wind

My personal definition of technology has nothing to do with screen or electrons, but I’ve also never lost a certain optimism about our relationship with electronic + digital tools, even if I’m saddened and frustrated by the course they’ve largely taken. My design + consulting work for clients tends to serve creative mavericks, community-based projects, and participatory processes, applying both learned + lived principles of humane technology.

Confluences

I live in Milano and was born in present-day New York, the ancestral lands of the Lenape people. These other places have also shaped me in a meaningful way: Bardonia Road, Providence, Santa Fe, Denver, Douala.

Our paths might have crossed in one of these contexts…

Volunteer + board member of the Associazione Parco Ticinello, dedicated to carrying on the agricultural traditions of this area through regular festivals + events, ecological activities, workshops for students, and more

Strategist + maker with Majestic Collaborations on mechanisms to increase community preparedness for disaster by building cross-fluencies and relationships between arts and event workers and emergency professionals, including developing the Arts + Cultural Resilience Asset Mapping methodology and the 2021 Designing Inclusive Virtual Events ebook in collaboration with the Folk Alliance International

Former professor at Inworks at the University of Colorado on the downtown Denver + Anschutz Medical campuses. This interdisciplinary initiative was dedicated to developing student and community capacities in design thinking, computational thinking, and rapid prototyping towards addressing hard human challenges like the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Volunteer Creative + Technology Lead for Afro Fashion Week Milan

With Steve Lewis + Andrew Henderson prototyped the world’s first completely biodegradable luminescent biosensor

Cofounded and formerly directed Immersive Denver, a community organization to connect the Colorado experiential creative community, generate new audiences for regional immersive, and advance efforts around performer and participant safety, agency, access + inclusion