Jill Franz

Queensland University of Technology | QUT · School of Architecture, Design and Visual Arts

Purpose Despite growing evidence of the impact of school facilities on wellbeing and educational outcomes, no attention has been given to understanding this impact in relation to the interrelationship of design and procurement and their combined effect. This paper aims to address this gap by presenting the outcomes of a study of the design/procurem...

While the studio is widely accepted as the learning environment where architecture students most effectively learn how to design (Mahgoub, 2007:195), there are surprisingly few studies that attempt to identify in a qualitative way the interrelated factors that contribute to and support design studio learning (Bose, 2007:131). Such a situation seems...

This paper explores the educator experience and sense-making of design thinking pedagogy in the higher education context. Design thinking has become a pedagogical phenomenon in higher education due to its widespread relevance across many disciplines. Some studies discuss design thinking as a pedagogy in the educational context; however, there is a...

Research has shown the neighbourhood as an influential environment concerning children’s independent mobility and activity participation. However, its influence on the everyday experiences of children with disabilities is not well understood. This article addresses this gap by studying the accounts of ten nine-12 year olds from south-east Queenslan...

This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital, yet generally overlooked relationships between the learning environment and student learning and wellbeing, and reveals the potential of participatory, values-based design approaches to cre...

Transition to high school can be challenging for students who encounter a complex new learning environment and unfamiliar physical spaces. Little research examines relationships between physical school spaces and wellbeing at this critical stage when students are at risk of disengagement from learning. This qualitative case study explored Year 7 st...

Despite increasing attention to designing learning environments that are conducive to contemporary pedagogy, there is limited understanding about how physical spaces influence student learning in holistic and existential ways. In addition, while research shows an association between student wellbeing and learning, the interrelationship between thes...

This chapter proposes a holistic approach to designing school spaces that envisages student wellbeing as flourishing . It focusses on the potential of design and the physical school environment to enhance student capability enabling students to flourish by living a life they have reason to value. The first part discusses a capabilities approach to...

A practical guide for travellers. This document is the outcome of a knowledge translation project conducted by Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Brisbane Airport Corporation

Many older people enjoy travelling for leisure, air travel included. To increase the self-determination and independence of people living with dementia we need to reduce the barriers to participation in all areas of life, including leisure. We used an exploratory, mixed method research design to learn about the experiences of people with dementia w...

Parent carers are often central in future planning for their children with disability; however, little is known about the implications of planning for parents’ futures and aspirations. In understanding these, parents’ own identities are important, but how these identities intersect with their planning is not well understood. This study explored how...

Historically, the Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE), Queensland has outsourced the role of undertaking Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) to professionals to provide the Department with data on the functional, technical and environmental performance of high profile Capital Works Delivery programs. These include, most recently,...

Interactions between services and families have significant implications for families planning for the future needs of a family member who has a disability. However, little research interrogates the implications of these relationships for parent carers’ agency in this planning. This qualitative study explored parents’ experiences with public and no...

Early Childhood Education (ECE) has a long history of building foundations for children to achieve their full potential, enabling parents to participate in the economy while children are cared for, addressing poverty and disadvantage, and building individual, community and societal resources. In so doing, ECE has developed a set of cultural practic...

Purpose This paper is informed by a study that aimed to understand the difficulties in implementing models of housing, and to help address the lack of accessible and affordable private housing for people with disability in Australia. In responding to this aim, the study formulated an ecological map of housing models, which are examined in this pape...

In response to the ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), Australian housing industry leaders, supported by the Australian Government, committed to transform their practices voluntarily through the adoption of a national guideline, called Livable Housing Design. They set a target in 2010 that...

This paper reports on a study of the voluntary provision of inclusive housing. The impetus for the study is the Livable Housing Design initiative, an agreement among Australian housing industry and community leaders in 2010 to a national guideline and voluntary strategy with a target to provide minimum access features in all new housing by 2020. S...

With a focus on intention and motivation, this paper describes a study involving three organisational communities and their collective effort to develop and provide more inclusive housing for people with disabilities and their families. While many studies, such as that by Rocha & Miles (2009), focus on commercial organisations, and sustainability f...

While the studio environment has been promoted as an ideal educational setting for project-based disciplines, few qualitative studies have been undertaken in a comprehensive way (Bose, 2007). This study responds to this need by adopting Grounded Theory methodology in a qualitative comparative approach. The research aims to explore the limitations a...

The lack of inclusive housing in Australia contributes to the marginalization and exclusion of people with disability and older people from family and community life. The Australian government has handed over the responsibility of increasing the supply of inclusive housing to the housing industry through an agreed national access standard and a vol...

While the studio environment has been promoted as an ideal educational setting for project-based disciplines associated with the art and design, few qualitative studies have been undertaken in a comprehensive way, with even fewer giving emphasis to the teachers and students and how they feel about changing their environment. This situation is probl...

This paper outlines the methodology used in a PhD qualitative research study on the agency of the housing industry in Australia in the provision of accessible housing. Previous studies have identified the need for an increased supply of accessible housing to optimise the inclusion and participation of all people, yet the demand for accessible housi...

In contrast to many other disciplines, built environment, engineering and design (BED) academics often have significant amounts of practical work experience and chose a university job because of their desire to teach and shape ‘professional practice’ in the next generation. This paper documents BED academics experience of being teachers and their t...

Social entrepreneurship can be conceived generally as a creative force born to address emergent or longstanding unfulfilled community needs occurring within or across the non-profit, business or government sectors. In this paper, we consider the current case study of a collective comprising a non-profit community organisation, pro-bono design group...

In this paper, an ‘ecological’ lens is applied to an independent living project aiming to provide ‘homes for life’ for adult children with disabilities. The qualities of the project as ecological praxis are highlighted along with the implications for an open-ended enquiry into ecologies for and of the interior. In terms of the ecological concern fo...

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In Australia, statistics collected in 2009 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that "four million people" are reported as having a disability, a figure that equates to 18.5% of the overall population (2009; p6). Statistics such as these are not by any means astonishing, even to members of the general public, and it is understood that these...

In this paper we highlight how current approaches to design for disability have failed to consider the emotional needs not only of those with disabilities but their families and other carers as well. In conjunction with this, we demonstrate through a review of literature the significance of the house, the home and home in the support and growth of...

While the studio is widely accepted as the learning environment where architecture students most effectively learn how to design (Mahgoub, 2007:195), there are surprisingly few studies that attempt to identify in a qualitative way the interrelated factors that contribute to and support design studio learning (Bose, 2007:131). Such a situation seems...

This paper reports on a project concerned with the relationship between person and space in the context of achieving a contemplative state. The need for such a study originated with the desire to contribute to the design of multicultural spaces which could be used for a range of activities including prayer and meditation. Given that the words ‘pray...

There is an urgent need in terms of changing world conditions to move beyond the dualist paradigm that has traditionally informed design research, education and practice. Rather than attempt to reduce uncertainty, novelty and complexity as is the conventional approach, an argument is presented in this paper that seeks to exploit these qualities thr...

The places and spaces that we inhabit on a day to day basis elicit powerful emotional responses that influence our health and wellbeing. In response to this notion, the paper describes emerging research that focuses explicitly on the relationship between emotional responses and health and wellbeing. More significantly it does so from a holistic per...

This paper describes an award winning program offered to homeless youth in 2001. It details the key learning and teaching approaches that underpinned its success. In the description it highlights the potential of embracing 'design' as a framework for facilitating change in youth deemed 'at risk' of homelessness. Furthermore, it offers an opportunit...

It is widely acknowledged that a strong relationship exists between physical environments and human health and wellbeing. More specifically, various dimensions of person environment (PE) relationships have been studied relating to the psychological, physical and social aspects of human interactions and transactions. However, health aspects relating...

In this paper a preliminary report on the study of landscape meaning and how it is shaped, expressed and so on by windows is described. Landscape is conveyed as being understood in at least four different ways: perceptually, politically, experientially and existentially. The framing quality of windows is shown to be complicit in these understanding...

This paper looks to the future and to its implications for design as a discipline as well as a transdiscipline. 'Transdiscipline' is used in this sense as a term that recognises the interconnectedness and complexity of the world and the associated need to address this by looking beyond disciplines through the development of a new overarching discou...

In this paper, a pedagogical model for fostering transdisciplinarity in the built environment is described. Unlike learning situations in design education which use multidisciplinary teams, this model is characterised by students working side-by-side on the same project each producing their own proposal. As is explained, the development of this mod...

Issues in Postgraduate Supervision, Teaching and Management A series of consultative guides produced by the Society for Research into Higher Education Postgraduate Issues Network: 1. Supervising International Research Students by Eunice Okorocha 2. Handling Common Dilemmas in Supervision by Pat Cryer 3. Developing Postgraduates' Key Skills edited b...

In this paper, an analysis of a review article in an Australian design magazine is undertaken using a selected model of architectural criticism. While the model is found to be restrictive in facilitating exploration of fundamental philosophical issues in interior design, it does reveal the potential of interior design criticism as a ground for furt...

Tertiary interior design courses incorporating the equivalent of four years education aim to provide students with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to practice as professional interior designers. In doing this, the various universities recognise the parameters and elements of professionalism formalised by the Inter...

This paper recognises practice-based research as an interpretative, non-dualist activity reflecting, implicitly for most, the dialectic nature of human experience and experiencing. It argues that the failure to explicitly acknowledge and appreciate this impedes acceptance of research through practice as a legitimate form of research, simultaneously...

A Study aimed at establishing that diversity in design understanding exists amongst students undertaking civil engineering, interior design and industrial is described. It is confirmed that there is diversity in the form of three different conceptions of design; a technical conception, a conceptual conception and a philosophical conception. These c...

Phenomenography is an area of research which focuses on identifying and describing the qualitatively different ways in which people understand phenomena in the world around them. Two units, structural analysis and traffic engineering, were selected for the purpose of understanding the various ways students relate to significant aspects of Civil Eng...

The study here contributes to our understanding of student learning, describing it from the viewpoint of students and lecturers engaged in specific learning and teaching contexts. The conceptions of learning, together with the relationships between the various conceptions, are discussed highlighting differences between lecturer and student experien...

This paper reviews a cross-section of methodological studies undertaken in architecture since the Second World War. Despite a variety of orientations, technically, conceptually and philosophically, most studies reflect an understanding of people and objects as discrete entities interacting in an passive and unilateral manner. This dominant dualist...

In an effort to respond to a socially and ethically driven imperative to address world issues more holistically, this paper focuses on the relationship between architecture and interior design and how this might be redefined to accommodate increasing demands for multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. It is argued that working against this are...

The findings of a study undertaken to identify attitudes towards sustainability held by a group of Brisbane architects and designers are presented and explored in terms of their implications for education, research and practice. Overall, it was found that the practitioners do not appreciate the complexity and multidimensional nature of sustainabili...

Phenomenography is an area of research which focuses on identifying and describing the qualitatively different ways in which people understand phenomena in the world around them. Two topics were selected for the purpose of understanding the various ways students relate to significant aspects of Civil Engineering. Integral to the study was the use o...

Despite strong criticism of the design studio as a method of teaching and learning, little work has been conducted in evaluating its effectiveness and efficiency. In an attempt to instigate such investigation, this Paper highlights the need for the learning environment to be conceptualised holistically with attention paid to such influential variab...

The outcome of the study aimed at representing design experience as an internal relationship betweeen the designer and design at a level sufficiently abstract to expose its basic structure is described. Arguments are presented supporting the finndings and their role in establishing a philosophically, methodically and substantively consistent framew...

This paper focuses on the relationship between the holistic health of a human being and the interior environment as it is conveyed in research literature. The study described here particularly focuses on literature that connects environment, emotions, feelings, mind and body. Central to this work is the PNI (psychoneuroimmunology) model which propo...

There is no doubt that the design studio persists as an enduring pedagogical construct in the education of designers worldwide. Many would argue that this is due to the soundness and resilience of its underpinning ideals. However, as a report undertaken by the American Institute of Architecture Students points out, studio culture is also characteri...

Archetypal images have played a long and significant role in how society views ‘the law’ and how the profession of law views itself. Think of some of the early television dramas such as ‘Perry Mason’ and of the use made of particular environmental elements such as rooms lined with imposing rows of legal encyclopaedias and furnished with solid oak d...

It use to be a place to post and collect letters, send telegrams, make telephone calls and pick up social security payments. While still a place of exchange, Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Post Office has recently become the signature site for the GPO Hotel; an eclectic mix of restaurant, bars and corporate entertainment venues.

This presentation showcases the development, implementation and outcomes to date of a work integrated learning (WIL) program for undergraduate students in a multidisciplinary built environment faculty. The disciplines represented include: architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, construc...

This paper reports on the development to date of a pedagogical model of higher education/industry engagement aimed at enhancing employability and professional practice in selected built environment disciplines. In particular, it focuses on the conceptualisation informing the development of the model; a model in which work integrated learning (WIL)...

References to 'transitions into' university and 'transitions out' into professional practice presuppose two main thresholds in a student's tertiary experience; one between the start of a course and that which came before; and the other between the end of the course and that which follows. From a philosophical position the act of crossing any thresh...

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an ongoing qualitative study investigating the experiences of students, practitioners, and educators in the placement of students within professional practice and outlines the subsequent implications for professional education. This includes an evaluation of a pedagogical model for work integrated lea...

Within an action research framework, this paper describes the conceptual basis for developing a crossdisciplinary pedagogical model of higher education/industry engagement for the built environment design disciplines including architecture, interior design, industrial design and landscape architecture. Aiming to holistically acknowledge and capital...

Through the exhibition implicit conceptions of home held by the participating artists and those viewing the exhibition were externalized. Represented as images, the conceptions conveyed different as well as shared understandings categorized as physical, cognitive, emotional, instrumental and existential. Unlike written papers on the meaning of home...

This exhibition was the outcome of a personal arts-based exploration of the meaning of interiority. Through the process it was found that existentially the architectural wall differentiating inside from outside does not exist but operates as a space of overlap, a groundless ground providing for dwelling in the real existential sense of the word.

In the current reform context, the uniqueness of local disciplinary practices is being forgotten in the race towards cross-disciplinary practice. The rhetoric of the pedagogic discourses of landscape architectural students and interior design students is described as part of a doctoral study undertaken to document practices and orientations prior t...