Jessica Bridger is a designer, writer and editor based in Germany and the United States. Her work is centered on the relationship of culture and economics to the built environment and landscape. She has a special interest in digital technologies and practices that extend knowledge about the built environment, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and augmented reality.

If you have an interesting project and would like Jessica to be involved, from March 2012 onward she will be working freelance, based in Berlin. jessica (at) jessicabridger.com

In December 2011 Jessica was awarded the 6th Bakema fellowship through the Jaap Bakema Foundation and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) She will complete a project entitled "Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup"

She is an editor at Topos : The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.

In 2007 she founded *VERY MERCENARY, though which she undertakes specific projects. *VERY MERCENARY is an independent agency for work in the arts, culture, and architecture. I

She holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Her visual work, writing, and theory/research are published in Nature As Artifice (NAi, 2008), A View on Harvard GSD (Tank Books, 2009), On Asphalt (Harvard GSD Press, 2009), Re-inventing Construction (Ruby Press, 2010) and her writing also appears regularly in Topos and other top journals and magazines about the built environment.

She was a studio instructor for a design studio at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has served as a guest critic for design studios and seminars at Harvard University, Columbia University and the TU Berlin.

Contact:
jessica (at) jessicabridger.com