Julieanna Preston Explained

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

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

Career

Preston gained a BArch from Virginia Tech in 1983 and an MArch from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1990.^[4] She has a PhD (by practice) from RMIT, 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

• 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)
• Waning (Birling Gap, UK, 2016)
• bit‐u‐men‐at‐work (with Jen Archer‐Martin, Melbourne, Australia, 2015)^[8]
• 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)^[9]
• Sounding Out Vacancy (Wellington, NZ, 2014)
• Meeting, you in detail (Writingplace, Delft, 2013)
• Moving Stuff (Auckland Art Festival, 2013)
• BALE (Snowhite Gallery, NZ, 2011)
• No Fixed Seating (Whirlwinds, London, 2010)

Publications

• 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) ^[10]
• 'Dear Rosa' (IDEA Journal Design Activism, 2014)
• 'Surface Demonstrations' (in Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, Lois Weinthal & Graeme Brooker (eds), 2013)
• '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.
• 'Blazing Inter-Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Interior Practice' (in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, Lori Brown (ed), 2011)
• 'Fossicking for Interior Design Pedagogies' (After Taste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design, Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury & Lois Weinthal (eds), 2011)

As editor

• Interior Atmospheres (Architectural Design, Volume 78, no. 3, May/June 2008) ^[11]
• Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley, 2006), co-edited with Mark Taylor. ^{[12] [13]}
• Interior Economies (IDEA, 2011)
• Moments of Resistance (co-edited with Mark Taylor and Andrew Charleson, Sydney: Archadia Press, 2002)^{[14] [15]}

External links

• Personal website of Professor Julieanna Preston
• Performing Matter on the Art Architecture Design Research website (including video performances)
• Interior Economies (IDEA Journal 2011) including editorial Essay by Julieanna Preston (pdf)
• Preston's PhD thesis on the RMIT research repository
• Professor Julieanna Preston's Massey University Expertise Directory entry

Notes and References

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