Julieanna Preston

Julieanna Preston is a Professor of Spatial Practice at Massey University's College of Creative Arts in Wellington, New Zealand. Her practice draws from the disciplines of architecture, art and philosophy, and her background in interior design, building construction, landscape gardening and performance writing.

Practice Preston's work explores concepts of "vitality, agency, and hospitality". Her work includes site-specific durational performances She has a PhD (by practice) from RMIT,

From 2015 to 2018 she was Research Coordinator for the School of Design at Massey University.

She was a board member of The Architectural Centre Inc. in Wellington in 1998.

Performances RPM Hums (The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2018) Murmur (Newcastle‐Upon‐Tyne, UK, 2017) IN COLD HEAT (Flachau, Austria, 2016) Attending (with Mick Douglas, Syracuse NY, 2016) Stirring Stillness: Aesthetic variations on a concrete plane (Konstfack College of Art, Sweden, 2015) Auē (Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, NZ, 2015) Reconciliation of Carboniferous Accretions (NIEMME, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2014) Becoming Boulder (SCANZ, New Plymouth, NZ, 2015) Sounding Out Vacancy (Wellington, NZ, 2014) Meeting, you in detail (Writingplace, Delft, 2013) Moving Stuff (Auckland Art Festival, 2013) BALE (Snowhite Gallery, NZ, 2011) 'Dear Rosa' (IDEA Journal Design Activism, 2014) 'Surface Demonstrations' (in Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design, Lois Weinthal & Graeme Brooker (eds), 2013) 'An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Ficto-Critical Approaches to Design Practice Research', (with Megg Evans, Ceri Hann, Zuzana Kovar, Sean Pickersgill, Michael Spooner and Hélène Frichot, in FOOTPRINT, [S.l.], pages 69–96, January 2012. 'Blazing Inter-Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Interior Practice' (in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, Lori Brown (ed), 2011) 'Fossicking for Interior Design Pedagogies' (After Taste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design, Kent Kleinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury & Lois Weinthal (eds), 2011)

As editor Interior Atmospheres (Architectural Design, Volume 78, no. 3, May/June 2008) Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley, 2006), co-edited with Mark Taylor. Interior Economies (IDEA, 2011) Moments of Resistance (co-edited with Mark Taylor and Andrew Charleson, Sydney: Archadia Press, 2002)