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Julieanna Preston

Julieanna Preston is a Professor of Spatial Practice[1] at Massey University's College of Creative Arts in Wellington, New Zealand. Her practice draws from the disciplines of architecture, art and philosophy, and her background in interior design, building construction, landscape gardening and performance writing.[2]

Practice edit

Preston's work explores concepts of "vitality, agency, and hospitality".[3] Her work includes site-specific durational performances[3] and written publication in areas such as feminist philosophy, new materialism and spatial politics.

Career edit

Preston gained a BArch from Virginia Tech in 1983 and an MArch from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1990.[1][4] She has a PhD (by practice) from RMIT,[1] where her thesis, entitled Inertia: of interior, surface, matter and completed in 2013, explored the interior surface.[5]

From 2015 to 2018 she was Research Coordinator for the School of Design at Massey University.

She was a board member of The Architectural Centre Inc. in Wellington in 1998.[6]

Performances edit

  • RPM Hums (The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2018)[7]
  • Murmur (Newcastle‐Upon‐Tyne, UK, 2017)
  • IN COLD HEAT (Flachau, Austria, 2016)
  • Attending (with Mick Douglas, Syracuse NY, 2016)[8]
  • Waning (Birling Gap, UK, 2016)
  • bit‐u‐men‐at‐work (with Jen Archer‐Martin, Melbourne, Australia, 2015)[9]
  • Stirring Stillness: Aesthetic variations on a concrete plane (Konstfack College of Art, Sweden, 2015)
  • Auē (Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, NZ, 2015)
  • Reconciliation of Carboniferous Accretions (NIEMME, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2014)
  • Becoming Boulder (SCANZ, New Plymouth, NZ, 2015)[10]
  • Sounding Out Vacancy (Wellington, NZ, 2014)
  • Meeting, you in detail (Writingplace, Delft, 2013)
  • Moving Stuff (Auckland Art Festival, 2013)
  • BALE (Snowhite Gallery, NZ, 2011)[8]
  • No Fixed Seating (Whirlwinds, London, 2010)

Publications edit

  • Elocutions, Elaborations, and Expositions of Interior Design Creative Scholarship (Journal of Interior Design, Volume 43, Issue 1 (Special issue), March 2018, pages 5–8)[3]
  • Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions (AADR 2014) ISBN 978-3-88778-412-6[11]
  • 'Dear Rosa' (IDEA Journal Design Activism, 2014)
  • 'Surface Demonstrations' (in Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, Lois Weinthal & Graeme Brooker (eds), 2013) ISBN 9781847887450 OCLC 832610461
  • 'An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Ficto-Critical Approaches to Design Practice Research', (with Megg Evans, Ceri Hann, Zuzana Kovar, Sean Pickersgill, Michael Spooner and Hélène Frichot, in FOOTPRINT, [S.l.], pages 69–96, January 2012. doi:10.7480/footprint.6.1-2.751 ISSN 1875-1490
  • 'Blazing Inter-Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Interior Practice' (in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, Lori Brown (ed), 2011) ISBN 9781409421184 OCLC 764633547
  • 'Fossicking for Interior Design Pedagogies' (After Taste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design, Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury & Lois Weinthal (eds), 2011) ISBN 9781616891398 OCLC 829025923

As editor edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington - Professor Julieanna Preston". creative.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. ^ "Julieanna Preston | Studies in Material Thinking". www.materialthinking.org. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. ^ a b c Preston, Julieanna (2018). "Elocutions, Elaborations, and Expositions of Interior Design Creative Scholarship". Journal of Interior Design. 43 (1): 5–8. doi:10.1111/joid.12117. ISSN 1939-1668. S2CID 116128235.
  4. ^ Brown, Lori A., ed. (2011). "Notes on contributors". Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture. ISBN 9781409421184.
  5. ^ Preston, Julieanna (2013). "Inertia: of interior, surface, matter. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architecture and Design, RMIT University". RMIT Research Bank. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  6. ^ "The Architectural Centre, Inc".
  7. ^ "theperformancearcade | Julieanna Preston". The Performance Arcade. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. ^ a b c Rendell, Jane (March 2018). "Only resist: Five particular qualities might characterise a specifically feminist approach to critical spatial practice, suggests Jane Rendell". Architectural Review. 243 (1449): 8–18. ISSN 0003-861X.
  9. ^ "BIT-U-MEN-AT-WORK". PERFORMING MOBILITIES. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  10. ^ "becoming boulder by Julieanna Preston – Intercreate.org". www.intercreate.org. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  11. ^ Weinthal, Lois (2017). "Book Review. Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions". Interiors. 8 (3): 179–183. doi:10.1080/20419112.2017.1406233. S2CID 187181048.
  12. ^ Snyder, Alison B. (November 2008). "Review: AD Interior Atmospheres, JULIEANNA PRESTON, editor". Journal of Architectural Education. 62 (2): 70–71. doi:10.1111/j.1531-314X.2008.00243.x. ISSN 1046-4883. S2CID 109159280.
  13. ^ Cys, Joanne (June 2008). "Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader [Book Review]". Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 18 (1): 131–133. ISSN 1033-1867.
  14. ^ Comerio, Mary (2003). "Book Review: Moments of Resistance". Earthquake Spectra: The Professional Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 19 (3–4): 1006–1007. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  15. ^ Downton, Peter (December 2004). "Mark Taylor, Julieanna Preston and Andrew Charleson, Moments of Resistance, Sydney: Archadia Press, 2002". Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 14 (1–2): 103–104. doi:10.1080/10331867.2004.10525196. ISSN 1033-1867. S2CID 161079052.

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