Diane Fellows

Courses Taught (past two academic years)

ARC 107 Global Design
ARC 301/302/401/402C Architecture Studio
ARC 4/504V 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.

Educational Credentials

Master in Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1992
M.F.A in Studio Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1987
B.F.A in Photography, Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA, 1978

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

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

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 26^th 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

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
Spring 2018 - Fall 2022: Faculty Staff Commendations, Center for Teaching Excellence

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

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