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Ms. Sadiyah Geyer

Lecturer
Name: Sadiyah Geyer
Location: LG Floor 027, FADA Building Bunting Road Campus
FADA 鈥婭nteror Design Academic Staff听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 1133

Email:听sgeyer@uj.ac.za

About Ms. Sadiyah Geyer

Ms. Sadiyah Geyer is an academic, researcher, and Honours Programme Coordinator in the Department of Interior Design at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg (UJ), within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA). With over a decade of professional experience in interior architecture and design, she has developed extensive expertise in conceptual development, technical documentation, project management, and strategic spatial planning.

Her academic career spans ten years, where she has contributed to shaping future interior designers through her commitment to socially responsive and environmentally conscious design education. She is currently pursuing a PhD with a focus on the complexities of urban interiority, particularly the role of interior design in sustainable urban regeneration in South Africa.

Ms. Geyer’s research interests lie in the intersections of interior design, urban regeneration, and the built environment as well as design education. She has published widely on topics such as adaptive reuse, interior placemaking, and pedagogical innovation. She is passionate about the potential of interior design to contribute meaningfully to urban transformation and cultural identity.

Explore her academic profiles:

• Conference Papers

International conferences

听Geyer, S. 2025 [published September 2025]. Emerging Paradigms in Interior Design Education: Navigating Digital Transformation and Critical Pedagogies. AMPS Proceedings Series 42.2. New Schools of Thought: Critical Thinking and Creative Teaching, California State 欧美福利100000 Los Angeles, USA; Universidad de los Andes, Chile; Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Indonesia, 8鈥�10 January 2025, pp. 68鈥�83. Editors: Zachary Vernon, Alejandra Bernardita Novoa Echaurren, 脕ngela Novoa-Echaurren, Caecilia Srikanti Wijayaputri, David Hutama, Yenny Gunawan. Executive Production Editor: Amany Marey.

听Geyer, S. 2024 [published September 2025]. Digital Fabrication and Making in Education: Expanding Pedagogy Towards Design and Reflective Practices. AMPS Proceedings Series 41.1. Society. Spaces. Screens, Arizona State 欧美福利100000, Yonsei 欧美福利100000, CESAR School (with NIX), 11鈥�13 December 2024. Mediated Cities Series, pp. 80鈥�93. Editors: Sarah Bassett, Nicholas Pilarski, Leo Falc茫o, Hyun-Jean Lee. Executive Production Editor: Amany Marey.

Geyer, S. ed., 2024.听Teaching Architecture (s) in the Post-Covid Era: The New Age of Digital Design. Taylor & Francis.

听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.

Geyer, S. and Gill, A. (2023) 鈥楴o strings attached: Disentangling architectural heritage from cultural heritage as a strategy for the adaptive reuse of heritage building鈥�, in Griffin, H. (ed.) (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, Culture and Technology 鈥� Past, Present, and Future, AMPS Proceedings Series 29.1. 欧美福利100000 of Kent, UK, 15鈥�17 June 2022. pp. 29鈥�37.

Geyer, S. and Gill, A. (2023) 鈥楽patial ideation: An interior design approach towards architectural heritage conservation鈥�, in Griffin, H. (ed.) (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, Culture and Technology 鈥� Past, Present, and Future, AMPS Proceedings Series 29.1. 欧美福利100000 of Kent, UK, 15鈥�17 June 2022. pp. 1鈥�11.

Geyer, S. and Gill, A. (2023) 鈥楧ecades of narrative: Balancing consistency and change in interior design programme delivery鈥�, in Adil, Z. (ed.) A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy, AMPS Proceedings Series 28.2. 欧美福利100000 of Kassel, Germany, 20鈥�22 April 2022. pp. 54鈥�64.

Geyer, S. and Prinsloo, I. (2023) 鈥楶rocessing complex interior construction problems: A critical reflection on past, present and future learning鈥�, in Adil, Z. (ed.) A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy, AMPS Proceedings Series 28.2. 欧美福利100000 of Kassel, Germany, 20鈥�22 April 2022. pp. 46鈥�53.

Geyer, S. and Prinsloo, I. (2021) 鈥楨mbracing change: Preserving dynamic interaction and contact with materiality in the online interior design studio鈥�, in Adil, Z. and An, E. (eds.) Online Education: Teaching in a Time of Change, AMPS Proceedings Series 23.2. Ball State 欧美福利100000, US, 21鈥�23 April 2021. pp. 140鈥�150.

Geyer, S. and Gill, A. (2021) 鈥楩rom design studio to research laboratory: An interior design contribution to urban regeneration studies鈥�, in Sanderson, L. and Stone, S. (eds.) Teaching 鈥� Learning 鈥� Research, AMPS Proceedings Series 22.2. Manchester School of Architecture, UK, 2鈥�4 December 2021. pp. 290鈥�300.

Geyer, S. (2018) 鈥楩rom the inside out: The contributions of interior design within inner city regeneration and placemaking strategies in a creative cluster鈥�, 4th Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD), Singapore: Global Science & Technology Forum, 30 October.

• Published Book

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.

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.

• Thesis

听Geyer, S. (2020) Johannesburg inner-city regeneration: A reciprocal relationship between selected interior commercial spaces and the creative sense of place in the Maboneng Precinct. Johannesburg: 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg.

• Professional Memberships

Professional Interior Architect Member of the African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID)

Executive Committee Member of the Design Council of South Africa (DCSA)

Board Treasurer of the Design Institute of South Africa (DISA)