Research
鈥婸ublished works by Interior Design Staff:
2026
Geyer, S. 2026. 鈥楤ridging the Gap: Fostering Future Leaders through Creative Industry Engagement in Design Education鈥�, in Peu Duvallon, V. (ed.) Making Design Public: Education Beyond the Studio. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 144-176.
2025
Geyer, S. 2025. AMPS Conference, 鈥楴ew Schools of Thought, Critical Thinking and Creative Teaching鈥�.Title: Emerging paradigms in interior design education: navigating digital transformation and critical pedagogies
Geyer, S. 2025. AMPS Conference, 鈥楽ociety. Spaces. Screens’. Digital fabrication and making in education: expanding pedagogy towards design and reflective practices.
Prinsloo, I. 2025. Design Research Society (DRS) Designing Retail and Services Futures 2025. Sustainable Retail and Services future. Title: The Resilience of Informal Trade: Lessons for Sustainable Retail Design.
Van der Wath, E & Deminey, EPM. 2025. AMPS Conference, 鈥�New Schools of Thought, Critical Thinking and Creative Teaching鈥�. Using AI to bridge the gap between textual narrative and visual expression: reflecting on an interior design student project.
2024
Geyer, S., Disney Calayde, R., Davey, R., Stepnoski, R. and Kapusuz Balc谋, B.B. (2024) Teaching Architecture(s) in the Post-Covid Era: The New Age of Digital Design. London: Taylor & Francis, Routledge.
Geyer, S. (2024) 鈥楾hinking inside the box: Inner-city regeneration through interior design placemaking strategies in a creative cluster鈥�, in Linke, U., Leung, I. and McGaw, J. (eds.) Local Cultures 鈥� Global Spaces: Communities, People and Place, AMPS Proceedings Series 37.2. Rochester Institute of Technology and Chinese 欧美福利100000 of Hong Kong, 5鈥�7 December 2023. pp. 10鈥�20.
Van der Wath, E., & Prinsloo, I. 2024. Appreciative inquiry in design research: A case study from interior design. In S. Geyer & I. Prinsloo (Eds.), Vulindlela: Making new pathways (pp. 215鈥�226). Design Education Forum of Southern Africa. 17th DEFSA Conference, Stadio Higher Education.
2023
Deminey, EPM and Breytenbach, A. 2023. Reflecting on lessons-learned for BIM implementation in design curricula in South Africa.. Vulindlela – making new pathways. 17th聽 DEFSA Conference. 21-22 September 2023, p283-291
Geyer S. & Gill A. 2023. Spatial ideation: An interior design approach towards architectural heritage conservation. In Griffin H. ed.聽 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology 鈥� past, present, and future, 15-17 June 2022, Kent. London: Amps, pp. 1-11
Geyer S. & Gill A. 2023. No strings attached: disentangling architectural heritage from cultural heritage as a strategy for the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings . In Griffin H. ed.聽 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology 鈥� past, present, and future, 15-17 June 2022, Kent.
Geyer S. & Gill A. 2023. Decades of narrative: balancing consistency and change in interior design programme delivery. Full paper submission & on-line digital presentation. In Adil Z.聽 ed.聽 A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy, 20 鈥� 22 April 2022, Virtual. London: Amps, pp. 54-64
Geyer, S., & Prinsloo, I. 2023. Embracing change: Preserving dynamic interaction and contact with materiality in the online interior design studio. AMPS Proceedings Series, 22(2), 140鈥�150. Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change, Ball State 欧美福利100000.
Geyer S., & Prinsloo, I. 2023. Processing Complex Interior Construction Problems: A Critical Reflection on Past, Present and Future Learning. Z. Adil (ed.), AMPS Proceedings Series 28.2. A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy. 欧美福利100000 of Kassel, Germany. 20 鈥� 22 April (2022). pp. [46-53] January 30, 202聽 January 30, 2023
Van der Wath, AE, Moagi, MM & Van der Wath, E. 2023.聽Risk factors for harm caused by alcohol use among students at higher education institutions: an integrative literature review.聽Journal of Substance Use,聽DOI:聽
Van der Wath, E & Prinsloo, I. 2023. Appreciative Inquiry in Design Research: A Case Study from Interior Design. Presented at 鈥榁ulindlela鈥� Making new pathways: 17th DEFSA Conference, Centurion, South Africa, September 2023
2021
De Wet, M. & Prinsloo, I. 2021. “The Influence of Economic Theories on the Value of Retail Design: A Designer’s Perspective,” Quartier, K., Petermans, A., Melewar, T.C. and Dennis, C. (Ed.) The Value of Design in Retail and Branding, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 67-84.
Deminey, EPM & van der Wath, E (2021). Visualising the Interior: Using post-digital thinking in interior design to restore expressive agency.聽Teaching innovation for the 21st聽Century: A collection of UJ teaching & learning vignettes.聽Johannesburg: 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg (ebook).
Geyer, S & Gill, A. 2021. ‘From design studio to research laboratory: an interior design contribution to urban regeneration studies.’ AMPS Proceedings Series 22.2. Teaching 鈥� Learning 鈥� Research, Manchester School of Architecture, pp. 290-300
Geyer, S & Prinsloo, I. 2021. 鈥楨mbracing change: preserving dynamic interaction and contact with materiality in the online interior design studio鈥�. AMPS Proceedings Series 22.2. Online education: Teaching in a time of change, Ball State 欧美福利100000, pp. 140-150
Walter, C, Deminey, EPM, Breytenbach, A. 2021. The influence of the fourth industrial revolution: A multi-discipline approach for design education. DE+AFRIKA+4IR+: Design education/ Afrika/ 4th Industrial Revolution. Ninth International DEFSA Conference. p292-302
2020
Gill A., & Di Monte-Milner, G. 2020. Spatial construction for ideational meaning: An analysis of interior design students’ multimodal projects. Full paper submission & online digital presentation. Cumulus Roma 2020: Design Culture (of) Languages. Rome June 2021
2019
Breytenbach, A & Deminey, EPM. 2019. The Postgraduate Supervision Space: From formal meetings to late-night calls. Designed Futures. Eighth International DEFSA Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 September, p16-25. Available:
Deminey, EPM & Breytenbach, A. 2019. Restricting factors in the selection and specification of sustainable materials: an interior design perspective. Designing sustainability for all. Proceedings of the 3rd LeNS World Distributed Conference, 3-5 April, Volume 4:p1100-1106. Available:
K枚nigk, R & van der Wath, E. 2019.聽Simulated practice: the interior treatise through a cumulative design research process.聽Poster presentation at聽Design Futures: 8th International DEFSA Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 9 鈥� 11 September 2019.
Prinsloo, I. 2019. Reskilling Interior Designers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). 8the International DEFSA conference. 9 to 11 September 2019, Cape Town, South Africa
Van der Wath, E & K枚nigk, R. 2019..聽鈥楻esearch Practice鈥� as Design Informant.聽Presented at聽Designed Futures: 8th International DEFSA Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 9 鈥� 11 September 2019.
2018
De Wet, M & Prinsloo, I. 2018. The influence of economic theories on the value of interior design. Paper presented at the Fourth International Colloquium on Design, Branding and Marketing, 欧美福利100000 of Hasselt, in Experience and value creation in design, branding and marketing edited by Quartier, K, Petermans, A & Melewar, TC. 6-7 December 2018, Hasselt: 欧美福利100000 of Hasselt: p22-33. Available:
Geyer, S & Breytenbach, A. 2018. From the inside out: The contributions of interior design within inner city regeneration and placemaking strategies in a creative cluster. 4th Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD). Singapore, Global Science & Technology Forum
Hoods, JK & Breytenbach, A. 2018. An urban acupuncture point: tracking a placemaking ripple effect. 4th Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD). Singapore, Global Science & Technology Forum
Prinsloo, I. 2018. Afrofuturism: a perspective on retail design in South Africa. Paper presented at the Fourth International Colloquium on Design, Branding and Marketing, 欧美福利100000 of Hasselt, in Experience and value creation in design, branding and marketing edited by Quartier, K, Petermans, A & Melewar, TC. 6-7 December 2018, Hasselt: 欧美福利100000 of Hasselt: p174-182. Available:
Van der Wath, E. 2018. Book Review: Designing for the museum visitor experience, by Tiina Roppola, New York, Routledge, 2012, 321 pp., 拢92 GBP (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-89184-4.聽International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI:
2017
Breytenbach, A. 2017. Postgraduate Supervision space: Spaces, journeys and new horizon鈥檚, 6th Biennial International Conference on Postgraduate Supervision, 28-31 March 2017, Stellenbosch.
Gill, A. & Di Monte-Milner, G. 2017. An effective pedagogical practice for integrating HIV and Aids into tertiary education: an interior Design case study. South African Journal of Higher Education, Vol 31, No 1, pp. 66-80.
Janse van Rensburg, R & Breytenbach, A 2017. Lessons for the Future: A design-led well-being approach, Cumulus Conference; Letters to the Future. Bengaluru, India, 20 to 23 November. Available: https://www.cumulusassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Letters-To-The-Future-1.pdf
Killian, C & Breytenbach A. 2017. Designing for the Marginalised: Understand the Value of Participatory Design, Cumulus Conference; Letters to the Future. Bengaluru, India, 20 to 23 November.
Available:
Prinsloo, I. 2017. Reinventing design teaching in an era of exponential growth. #Decolonise: Design educators reflecting on the call for decolonisation of education. The Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). 14th national Design Education conference, P.246-255. 27-29 September, Pretoria, South Africa. Available:
Van der Wath, E. & K枚nigk, R. 2017.聽The assembly of South African archaeological heritage at the British Museum: Do trans-placed objects contribute to a shared temporal identity?聽Presented at聽Building Bridges: 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht, Netherlands, 30 August to 3 September 2017.
2015
Prinsloo, I. 2015. The changing strategies within design for retail stores.The Virtuous Circle: Design Culture and Experimentation. Cumulus Association. 3-7 June, Milan, Italy. Available:
2014
Gill A. 2014. ‘Playground typologies and materiality for sustainable public open spaces in an urban context’.聽 UIA 2014 Conference proceedings: Architecture Otherwhere: Resilience 鈥� Ecology 鈥� Values, UIA 2014 Durban, pp.1403-1418
Jacobs, A & Van der Wath, E. 2014.聽Interpreting a contemporary South African identity in long-haul public rail transport interiors.聽Presented at the聽8th聽National Conference of the South African Journal of Art History, Pretoria, South Africa, 19-20 September 2014
Venter, T & van der Wath, E. 2014.聽Industry and 欧美福利100000 Cooperative Design: a retrospective critique on a rapid prototyping workshop.聽Presented at the聽7th聽International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville, Spain, 17-19 November 2014
2013
Prinsloo, I., 2013. Embracing a culture of active citizenship in interior design education. Design Cultures: Encultured Design. The Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). Design Education Conference 2013 hosted by Vaal 欧美福利100000 of Technology on 2 & 3 September 2013 in Vanderbijl Park, South Africa. p 211-219. Available:
Van der Wath, E. 2013. Design/build and interior design: engaging students in technical development.聽South African Journal of Art History, 28(3): 181-195
Van der Wath, E. 2013.聽Design/build and interior design: engaging students in technical development.聽Presented at the聽7th聽National Conference of the South African Journal of Art History, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 7-8 June 2013.
2012
Prinsloo, I., 2012. Reflecting on the need for inclusion of interior designers to the multi-disciplinary retail design discourse in South Africa. 2nd International conference on Design, Development and Research. DDR 2012 hosted by Cape Peninsula 欧美福利100000 of Technology on 4 & 5 September 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. Available:
2011
Prinsloo, I., 2011. Interior designers: unacknowledged role players in South African retail design. 20/20 Design vision. The Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). 6th International DEFSA conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa. p 164 – 171. Available: