My name is Jenny, and I live here in Curious Terrain, as I believe we all do. I stand at the intersection of art, analysis and landscape. It's a strange and fascinating view from here.

I have a head that loves to diagram and model everything around me, perched on a body that loves to be out in the world, observing people and places.

My professional background is in interaction design, a discipline focused on human behavior, and the creation of products that solve the right problems and are a pleasure to use.

After ten years in the software world, I yearned to make the leap from 2D to 3D. So I went for my Masters in Landscape Architecture, spending three years in a studio environment, immersed in landscape history, ecology, design and planning. I loved it all, but my analytical brain kept pestering me: "Where are the models for landscape experience? What's the system for designing with people in mind? How can I break this all down?"

And boom, there was my Master's Project, which evolved into the Curious Terrain Explorer's Deck, a mnemonic tool for discovering and recording places.

I am so excited about this product, and received such an encouraging response to it, that I am now putting it out into the world, for all who are curious about the places they encounter, and especially those who are involved in creating those places.

This website is a place for sharing works inspired by the Explorer's Deck, for connecting with kindred spirits, and for developing new products related to discovering and communicating places. Future products will almost surely involve software, and I continue to hone those 2D design skills in my day job, expanding into the latest realms of responsive design, mobile devices and social media.

Special thanks go to the faculty of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon for providing such fertile ground for my education and research — particularly my advisors Kenny Helphand, Liska Chan and David Hulse.

Thanks to Jessie Bazata and Tara Barrick for their inspiring illustration and graphic design work, used in the Explorer's Deck and this website. Thanks to the delightful and meticulous Stumptown Printers.

And finally, thanks to Jared Boone, my incomparable traveling companion in this adventure.