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Diane Fellows
Professor; Lead Departmental Advisor
Architecture and Interior Design

Diane Fellows

Contact Info

513-529-6447
Alumni 203B

Educational Credentials

  • Master in Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  • M.F.A, Studio Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  • B.F.A, Photography, Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA

Teaching Experience

  • Professor, College of Creative Arts, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2023- Current
  • Associate Professor, College of Creative Arts, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, OH, 2009- 2022
  • Assistant Professor, College of Creative Arts, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, OH, 2002 – 2008
  • Visiting Lecturer, University of Missouri–Kansas City, MO Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, 2001 – 2002
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, OR College of Design, School of Architecture and Visual Arts. The Department of International Studies, 1990 - 1992
  • Lecturer, Summer Architecture Academy, University of Oregon, OR College of Design, School of Architecture and Visual Arts, 1990

Courses Taught (past two academic years)

  • ARC 107 Global Design
  • ARC 301/302/401/402C Architecture Studio
  • ARC 404V/504V Film & Mixed+Multimedia

Areas of Expertise

  • Architecture and global migration
  • culture, socio-politics, human rights laws
  • storytelling through multiple media+film/video processes and architectural processes.

Professional Experience/Licenses/Registrations

  • Project Designer, Ellerbe Becket Inc., (AECOM) Kansas City, Missouri, 1997–2001
  • Diane Fellows Design, Denver, Colorado, 1994–1996
  • Davis Partnership Architects, P.C., Denver, Colorado, 1994-1995

Professional Development

  • International Criminal Law and Human Rights (course), New York University, School of Professional Studies, 2021
  • International Summer School for Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, UK, 2018 (Certificate of Participation)
  • Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, (CAVS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (by invitation), 1987

Professional Memberships and Service

  • OISTAT) The International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, 2022.
  • The AIA Chicago DEI Panel Presentation, “Designing Beyond Boundaries: Addressing the humanitarian crisis through architecture and approaching design through the refugees’ perspective.” July 20, 2022 (webinar). Invited.
  • ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Reviewer: Abstracts for the 111th Annual Meeting: IN COMMONS

Awards/Recognitions/Grants/Competitions

  • Outstanding Professor Award Nomination (Miami University Associated Student Government), 2022
  • The Crossan Hays Curry Distinguished Educator Award, College of Creative Arts, Miami University, 2021
  • Faculty Staff Commendations, Center for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2018 - Fall 2022

Significant Publications/Creative Projects/Paper Presentations

Creative Projects: Curated/Blind Jury Review

  • Contesting and Bridging Boundaries and Borders: the US-Mexico Indigenous and Migration Experience (in progress) Forthcoming. The European Cultural Centre (ECC) 6th edition of “Time Space Existence,” an architecture biennial exhibition in Venice, Italy, May 20th - November 26th 2023, in parallel with La Biennale Architettura. International/Competitive/Curated. An immersive installation presenting how space is defined and interpreted through the indigenous people’s experience and migration narratives of the US-Mexico border along the Rio Grande. 2023
  • Collaborators: Diane Fellows, lead designer (artist: immersive video, soundscape); Adrian Jesus Falcon (artist and muralist: painting, Falcon Art Center Foundation, Del Rio, Texas); Diana Lizbeth Zuñiga Hernandez (artist: painting, and founder of Global Indigenous Collective); Gion DeFrancesco, (scenography and technical collaborator, Department of Theatre, Miami University); Miami University Architecture Studio Boundaries, Borders and the Imaginary (mural, architectural works)
  • Territories. The Empty Room (digital film, photography, prose) Paris Women Festival (awards film festival), 2022 Awarded: Semi-Finalist. Genre: Experimental (Under the title: Kissed Away. Part II. The Empty Room) Director’s Circle Festival Of Shorts, 2022 Nominated: Best in Genre: Experimental / Audience Choice Runner-Up
  • On the Question of Power (photography/assemblage), created 2019 Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, The Gardner Gallery of Art, Oklahoma State University (OSU) Art Museum, Stillwater, OK (Curator/Juror: Larissa Goldston, Owner/Director, Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), NYC). 450/48: 11% Acceptance. Purchase Prize: The permanent collection of the Gardiner Gallery of Art, OSU Art Museum. 2021
  • Kaskia San Whose Are You, (digital film) part of “We Gather Together in Music" series. Episode 9: Andalusian Romance. Miami University Performing Arts Series, College of Creative Arts, University Symphony Orchestra Production. (link: Kaskia San Whose Are You), 2021
  • The Conversation (photography/assemblage), Female in Focus, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (Juror: Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator, Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) Competitive: 2020

Book Chapter

  • Fellows, Diane. “Social Media, Shelter and Resilience: Design in Za’atari Refugee Camp” in Structures of Protection?, Mark E. Breeze and Tom Scott-Smith eds., Berghahn Press, New York: Oxford, 2020