Editorial Board

Liz Teston

University of Tennessee

Liz Teston is an associate professor of interior architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). She was a awarded her Master of Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2017-19, she was the James Johnson Dudley Faculty Scholar in the College of Architecture and Design at UTK; and in 2018 a Fulbright Scholar at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania. Teston's research explores interiority, design politics, and cultural identity via drawing, making, and writing. Her essays and creative scholarship can be found in several journals like Interiority, Magazine on Urbanism (MONU), International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, Journal of Interior Design, and Int/AR: Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, and volumes such as Theorsing Interior Design (Routledge, forthcoming 2023), Interior Urbanism Reader (Routledge, forthcoming 2022), Interior Futures (Crucible, 2019), Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018), and A Guide to the Dirty South: Atlanta (Artifice, 2013).

Karin Tehve

Pratt Institute

Karin Tehve is associate professor at Pratt Institute in New York, where she coordinates the theory and undergraduate thesis curriculum in interior design. She earned her Master of Architecture degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her own research and writing concentrates on taste, media and identity, and their intersection with the public realm. Karin founded her practice KT3Dllc in 2001 pursuing projects in architecture, interiors, and site‐specific art. Conference presentations include IDEC, ACSA and Common Ground. She has published in the Journal of Design History, The Journal of Interior Design, The International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, contributed to Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018), and is co-editor for and contributor to Interior Provocations: History, Theory and Practice of Autonomous Interiors and Appropriate(d) Interiors (Routledge, 2020) Her forthcoming book, Taste, Media and Interior Design, will be published by Routledge in 2022.

Penny Sparke

Kingston University

Penny Sparke is a professor of design history at Kingston University and the Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre. She studied French literature at the University of Sussex and earned her PhD in History of Design at Brighton Polytechnic. She subsequently taught design history at Brighton Polytechnic and Royal College of Art. Sparke was Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design & Music at Kingston University and was later Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). She has given keynote addresses, contributed to editorial boards, curated exhibitions, and published internationally. Her most important publications include Nature Inside (Yale, 2021), Flow (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Modern Interior (Reaktion, 2008), Elsie de Wolfe (Acanthus, 2005), and Introduction to Design and Culture (Routledge, 1986, 2004, 2013, 2019). She has also supervised and examined many PhDs in her subject. As an advisory board member for Public Interiority, Sparke provides project advice and acts a peer reviewer.

Igor Siddiqui

The University of Texas at Austin

Igor Siddiqui is associate professor of architecture, Program Director for Interior Design, and the Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair at The University of Texas at Austin. His creative scholarship, research, and practice prioritize relationships between design innovation and public engagement, with an emphasis on promoting interiors as a body of theoretical and applied knowledge central to contemporary life. Siddiqui’s work has been published, exhibited, and presented at numerous venues worldwide. Currently, he also serves in the role of coeditor-in-chief of the journal Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture (Taylor & Francis). Siddiqui studied architecture at Yale University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, California College of the Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and ENSA–Paris Belleville.

Amy Campos

California College of Arts

Amy Campos is a tenured Associate Professor at California College of the Arts and Chair of the Interior Design program. Her work focuses on durability and design with special interest in the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. The work spans a variety of scales, platforms and formats, from inhabited architectural spaces to object and furniture design, as well as, writing. Recent publications include Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and the chapters Survivalism, interiorization and exclusivity in Interior Futures (Crucible Press, 2019) and Territory and Inhabitation in Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018). Campos is leading research in lighting design and materiality through two Donghia Grants for the Interior Design program at CCA. She was the recipient of the 2013 IIDA Teacher of the Year award and the 2014 ASID Design Luminary Award. She has previously served on the Board of Directors for IDEC. She received her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Ladi’Sasha Jones

Princeton University - PhD Candidate in History and Theory of Architecture

Ladi'Sasha Jones is a writer, curator, and a member of Public Interiority's editorial board.  She has written for Aperture, Avery Review, Arts.Black, Houston Center for Photography, Art X Lagos, Temporary Art Review, Art-Agenda, The Art Momentum, and Recess among others. Her project, Black Interior Space / Spatial Thought was commissioned by THE SHED (NYC) as a part of Open Call 2021 and was the recipient of a 2021 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Currently, Jones is the Artist Engagement Manager for The Laundromat Project. She held prior appointments at the Norton Museum of Art, the New Museum's IdeasCity platform, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She holds a B.A. in African American Studies from Temple University and a M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.