Interior Design Newletter
Form Z Award of Distinction 2006-2007, Spring 2006
Interior Design senior Kyunju Kim’s computer rendering of the Multiplex Project from I D 4776 capstone class taught by Professor Asojo was nominated for the 2006-2007 Form.Z Award of Distinction.
Fall 2006 Interior Design Luncheon Series
August luncheon was the annual welcome to the new 2006/2007 academic session.
September luncheon featured a lecture on “Principles and Theories of Sustainable Design” by Professor Lee A. Fithian, AIA, NCARB, AICP, LEED AP.
October luncheon featured the annual Interior Design Division Halloween party.
2006 has been another extremely productive year at the Interior Design program at OU.
Congratulations to the ID graduating class of 2006 Joni Paige Bell, Leslie Anne Carroll, Stephanie Irene Castner, Tara J. Clapper, Emily Bee Clark, Emily Ann Gannaway, Jodi Lorene Hammer, Hallie Marcina Henley, Felicia Hope James, Brittany Dawn Jones, Monica Elise Karriker, Kyunju Kim, Rachel Elizabeth Meadows, Cory Elizabeth Middleton, John Jacob Myers, Rebecca Kyung-Soo Orr, Cory Lynne Rhodes, Amie Kay Stewart, Alexa Marie Stinnette, Cassandra Leigh Street, Amanda Ann Trail, Melissa Dawn Tucker, Stefanie Nicole Vincent, Jennifer Marie Wilber, Jerald Vahn Willis, and Maya Alexandra Yuwono.
Interior Design Educators Council Southwest Regional Conference was in Norman last November
OU Interior Design is honored to have hosted the 2006 Interior Design Educational Council (IDEC) Southwest Regional Conference. The theme of the conference was Global Design Perspectives. Global Design Perspectives focus on an approach to creative thinking and problem solving that respects cultural and social differences of all peoples. Interior Design Educators in the Southwest Region gathered together for three days and deliberated global design issues. The conference keynote speaker was Dr. Nnmadi Elleh, an architecture professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Design Art, Architecture, and Planning. Elleh was a Samuelson Ittleson Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He has authored several books among which are African Architecture, Evolution and Transformation and Architecture and Power in Africa. In addition, the conference featured a Global Design Exhibit of the architecture of India, Nigeria and South Africa by professors Vibhavari Jani and Abimbola Asojo in the College of Architecture, Gould Hall gallery.
Community Service Projects
Noble Library Interior Renovation, Spring 2006
The Noble Public Library recently was the benefactor of a substantial private donation providing them with the opportunity to renovate and expand their current facility. The gift accelerated their plans to enlarge the existing facility at 204 North Fifth Street in Noble, Oklahoma. The Pioneer Library System and the Noble Public Library asked the Design and Human Factors Interior Studio (I D 2544) taught by Elizabeth Pober and Scott Williams, to help with the design of the interiors of the existing and new library facility.