Associate Professor Joanne Cys

Associate Professor Joanne Cys is Program Director for Interior Architecture. Joanne joined the School following experience in professional practice as senior interior designer with a major architectural firm working on medium to large scale commercial projects.

Joanne's qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (University of Adelaide), a Bachelor of Arts (Interior Design) and a Master of Architecture (University of South Australia) and her particular research interests are in the professional status and directions of interior design practice and continuing professional education for design practitioners.

Joanne has been invited to speak at international and national conferences and is a regularly invited contributor to professional design journals. With her UniSA colleague Jane Lawrence, Joanne coordinates the Creative Masterclass program for design practitioners.

Joanne is actively involved in the Design Institute of Australia and is National President of the DIA and convenor of the judging panels of the National Interior Design Awards. In 2004, Joanne was bestowed the title of Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia. Joanne is Australia’s representative on the Global Design Network(GDN) and the Asia Pacific Space Designer’s Association (APSDA). Joanne is an executive member of the Interior Design/Interior Educator's Association (IDEA).

Design Institute of Australia

IDEA Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators' Association

Creative Masterclasses for Design Practitioners

• Joanne’s teaching interests focus on the practice of interior design and the opportunities to make undergraduate study a professionally relevant experience for students.
• Joanne is the Course Coordinator for the following Interior Architecture courses: Professional Management and Professional Design Communication. She also teaches in Interior Architecture Studio, Interior Architecture Studies and Design Culture and Environment.

Joanne is a Fellow and National President Elect of the Design Institute of Australia.

1995 Master of Architecture, University of South Australia.

1992 Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, University of South Australia.

1989 Bachelor of Arts, University of Adelaide.

• Joanne’s research interests are in the professional status and directions of interior design practice, continuing professional education and multi-disciplinary design collaboration.
• She developed the strategy for Continuing Professional Education for design practitioners in Australia which has been adopted by the DIA. She has published widely in this area.
• Joanne's current research activity relates to collaborative practice and she has been invited to present papers at conferences relating to her work in this area. In 2006, she was invited to author the ‘Design Services’ chapter of the Creative Industries Briefing Report for Austrade.
• In 2006, Joanne was invited to curate the ‘Salon South’ Furniture exhibition at JamFactory Gallery 1. She was a key organiser of the 2004 'match' creative disciplines collaboration tournament and the 2006 Xpress design competition. She was the creative director of the [X]periment '05 Design Symposium and is currently directing the [X]periment ’07 Design Symposium.

Cys, J. 2008, ‘Exhibition as research/research as exhibition’, Proceedings of Interiors World Forum Conference: Places and themes of Interiors, Contemporary Research Worldwide, Polytecnico Di Milano, Italy, 1-3 October (IN PRESS: to be published October 2008)

Cys, J. & Lawrence, J. 2008, ‘Recent pasts’, CSAAR 2008B Conference, Responsibilities and Opportunities in Architectural Conservation: Theory, Education and Practice, Petra University, Amman, Jordan, November 3-6 (IN PRESS: To be published in November 2008)

Lawrence, J. & Cys, J. 2007, ‘The new old’ Interiors in the re-habitation of existing buildings: tradition and research, Il Poligrafo, Padova, Italy, IUAV, Venice, 24-25 October, pp. 249-252.

Cys, J. ‘un-owned territory’, Inhabiting Risk: Proceedings of the 3rd conference of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, WelTec, Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2- 6, 2007, pp. 27-34.

Lawrence, J. & Cys. J. ’15 keys: unlocking the (ad)venture of student-industry projects’, Inhabiting Risk: Proceedings of the 3rd conference of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, WelTec, Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2- 6, 2007, pp. 81-88.

Cys, J. ‘[un]disciplined’, IDEA Journal 2006, pp. 14-25, 2006.

Cys, J. ‘Collaboration: experiment, mess and risk’, Proceedings of the 2005 Speculation and Innovation Conference, Queensland University of Technology, publication pending.

Cys, J. 'Absence of Structure', insideout: interior Design/interior Architecture Educators Association journal, 2005, IDEA, QUT, Brisbane, 2005, pp. 31-40.

Cys, J. 'Salon South', guest curator catalogue essay for the 'Salon South' furniture exhibition, JamFactory gallery 1, April 24 - May 29 2006.

Ward, S. and Cys, J. 'Collaboration: the creative insulator' in Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Drawing Together: convergent practices in architectural education, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, 2005, pp. 1-8.

Cys, J., ‘Translations from research to practice: establishing CPE within a professional organisation’, Beyond Your Comfort Zone: Proceedings of the 2004 CPE Conference, Centre for Research into Professional Practice, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, pp.56-64.

Cys, J. and Ward, S., 2003. 'Using the c-word: collaboration in pedagogy and practice' in Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Design + Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, University of Melbourne, (http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/events/confernces/aasa/papers)

Chalmers, L. and Cys, J. 2001, ‘Listening to the Profession: Development of a Professional Continuing Education Strategy for the Design Institute of Australia’, IDEC Conference 2001, ‘Connections’, Interior Design Educators Council, Chicago USA, March 27 – April 1.

Russo, A. and Cys, J., 2000, ‘I profess…(but only after extensive consultation and deliberation)’, ACUADS 2000 Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 20-22 September.

Cys, J. and Chalmers. L. 2000, ‘Learning in the design office; the appearance and the reality’ in Proceedings of PAPER ‘98, 11th Conference on People and Physical Environment Research, The University of Sydney, pp.213-219.

Cys, J. 2000, ‘Learning; Design; Practice. Practitioner Perspectives of Workplace Learning’ in Conference Proceedings Working Knowledge; Productive Learning at Work, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, pp. 97-103.

Cys, J. and Chalmers, L. 1999, ‘Learning design for the workplace’, in Proceedings of CPE 99, Professionals at Work: CPE and Practitioners’ Workplaces, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, pp. 133-142.

Cys, J. 1998, ‘Lifelong learning and the interior design professions: An exploration’ Design and Education, Volume 7, Number 2, pp.23-31.

Cys, J. 1998, ‘Towards a professional strategy for interior design in Australia’, in Proceedings of the Interior Design: In or Out? Forum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 65-67.

Cys, J. and Morris, D. 1988, ‘Invention versus convention in design construction teaching’, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 283-288.

Cys, J. 1997, ‘The role of lifelong learning within the design professions’, paper presented to 6th National and 1st International Design in Education Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 3-6 July.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Interior Architecture

• Contemporary Design and Architecture
• Creativity
• Regional Design Identity
• Collaborative Practice
• Pre-Briefing Research/Consultation
• User Consultation
• Design Policy