ANN WHITESIDE DICKSON
Director, School of Interior Design
hdsawd@uky.edu
859-257-7767
Expertise & Research Interest
Studies of environmental preference as an element of design, problem-solving in populations, and leadership of the school's "Inside Main Street" collaborative project.
Keywords: man-environment relations; the interior from Post-War to Post-Modern; Design Pedagogy
Education
- Master of Science, Florida State University
- Bachelor of Science, University of Kentucky
Memberships
- Interior Design Educators Council, (IDEC)
- Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
Selected Publications/Creative Scholarship
- "Developing a methodology for assessing children's preferences for nonresidential interior spaces". Journal of Interior Design, 25 (2) : 32-44.
Funding Source : Interior Design Educators Council
Summary: A methodology was developed and tested to understanding how children perceive and read public environments and what design aspect of commercial environments is most important to them.
Collaborator: Allison Carll-White - "From Post-war to Post-modern: Interior Textiles, 1946-1976."
Funding Source: Bittner's
Summary: A catalogue for the textile exhibition with same name at the Headly-Whitney Museum.
Collaborator: Allison Carll-White - "Practitioners Perceptions of Interior Design Graduate Education and Implications for the Future."
Journal of Interior Design. 20 (1): 27-35
Funding Source: Polsky Endowment, IIDA
Summary: State of the profession with regards to graduate education and it's future importance.
Collaborator: Allison Carll