Ms Jane Lawrence

Jane is Acting Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Interior Architecture Studio Course Coordiantor.

Jane received a University of South Australia Scholarly Teaching Award and has also been awarded another 3 University Awards for Teaching and Learning with collegue Rachel Hurst: 2002 UniSA Excellence in Teaching Award; 1999 UniSA Supported Academic Teaching Award and 1998 Faculty Art Architecture and Design Inaugral Innovative Teaching and Learning Award.

Jane's research focus is on domesticity and the everyday; gastronomy and design which is disseminated in journals, conference proceedings and public exhibitions. With her UniSA colleague Joanne Cys, Jane coordinates the Creative Masterclass program for design practitioners. Jane continues to practice through research and consultancy projects within the University.

Jane is LLS team leader in the School's STEP 2010 project for the student-led design and fabrication of transportable studio and exhibition spaces for off campus community engagement projects.

• Jane's teaching areas are in all year levels of Interior Architecture Studio. She teaches a collaborative first year studio with Rachel Hurst which has themes of memory, identity and the everyday. Basic design principles are explored in first year using the devices of metaphor and the cultural influence of food. These awarded teaching practises respond to cultural difference and expression, clear language, flexibility, regional specificity an socio-economic circumstances.
• As studio cordinator, Jane has developed a highly integrated program for final year which engages students in real projects that make connections with corporate and local government client groups, and with Michael Geissler has instigated a furniture stream in studio where students design and fabricate an innovative furniture piece. These germane projects replicate professional practise of design and directly prepare students for employment.
• The Creative Masterclass for Design Practitioners program initiated with Joanne Cys in 2007, is the only mulit-disciplinary masterclass program of its kind in Australia which offers 1 or 2 day masterclasses led by renowned Australian designers.

Bachelor Arts Interior Design

Advanced Certificate Interior Design

• Jane has dual research areas in design pedagogy and food and design alliances collaborativey with Rachel Hurst. These unite teaching and learning practises with scholarly research. Jane and Rachel have written 2 book chapters in Memory in Architecture and Eating Archtiecture. They were also invited to publish in Architectural Design: Food and the City in 2005.
• Jane's enjoyment and committment to continue professional interior design pracitse and maintain a high level skill base is reflected in her involvment in 8 community based consultancy projects for the University. Each project embeds research, sustainablility and best practise and informs her teaching programs by diseminating and applying current and relevent technical, practical and managerial information. Three of these consultancies have employed student involvement in the research, site analysis and documentation stages. Jane is currently pursuing consultancy work for community groups.
• Jane's work with Rachel has also informed the production of three separate artworks exhibited locally and interstate which explore their unique collaboration in both academic and domestic realms. Future collaborative creative works are currently in production investigating themes of domesticity and the everyday.

Chapters in Books 2005 Hurst, R., Lawrence, J. 'Raw, Medium, Well Done: A Typological Reading of Australian Eating Places' in Architecutral Design: Food and the City, Franck, K. ed. Vol 75 No. 3

2003 Lawrence, J., Hurst, R. ‘Diffuse Patterns of the Quotidian: A Recipe of Familial, Social and Mundane Events’ in Eating Architecture: an anthology Singley, P.,(ed) MIT Press

2003 Hurst, R., Lawrence, J. ‘(Re)placing, Remembering, Revealing: Understanding through Memory and Making’ in Memory in Architecture, Bastea, E. ed. University of New Mexico Publishers

Exhbitions 2007 Interior Archtiecture Program A Place at the Table: the politics of being inside: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery.

2007 Lawrence, J., Hurst, R. 'drawn to the table' Dine! [X]periment South Australian Museum.

2007 Hurst, R., Lawrence, J. 'patterns of domusticity' strangely familiar [working title] SASA Gallery

2002 Hurst, R., Lawrence, J. ‘peel plan slice section’. in ‘on the premises…’, Goya Galleries, Southbank, Melbourne.

2002 Lawrence, J., Hurst, R., Lee, G., ‘15.07.72…09.11.01…??.03.03’ in windows: the final curtain series of installations, UniSA Art Museum

1999 Hurst, R., Lawrence, J., ‘mater(ial) maps’, in Field notes: s©ite works. UniSA Art Museum