Rate My Professor Janice Rieger

Professor Janice Rieger serves as Associate Professor and Head of Discipline for Architecture, Industrial Design, and Planning in the School of Engineering and Built Environment within Griffith Sciences at Griffith University. An Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award recipient, her fellowship centers on co-designing inclusive environments, advancing socio-spatial justice, and fostering ecologies of care. With three decades of international experience spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, Rieger's career integrates architecture, built environment, design, and creative practice. Her expertise encompasses housing design, history, accessibility, and affordability, alongside material culture in museums, galleries, exhibitions, inclusive access, curatorial practice, disability studies, and heritage. She earned her PhD from the University of Alberta's Department of Human Ecology, Master of Arts in Art and Architectural History from York University, Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Practice in Visual Culture from York University, and Bachelor of Interior Design from the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture. Rieger holds Senior Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Associate Fellow in Indigenous Knowledges (AFHEA), and Fellow of the Quality Assurance agency (FQA).

Her research specializations include critical heritage, museum and archive studies, social design, architectural design, history, theory, criticism, and visual cultures. Notable publications comprise 'Doing Embodied Mapping/s: Becoming-With in Qualitative Inquiry' (2022, International Journal of Qualitative Methods), 'Making Pedagogic Sense of Design Thinking in the Higher Education Context' (2019, Open Education Studies), 'Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power' (2023, Routledge), 'Cultural Safety as a Foundation for Allyship in Disability Arts' (2024, Disability & Society), and 'Taken for Granted: Material Relations Between Disability and Codes/Guidelines' (2016, Societies). Rieger has supervised projects on co-designing inclusive playgrounds, multisensory museum experiences, interpreter services, and disability policies. Over two decades, she has taught, developed, and coordinated 65 courses in studio, theory, and history. Her contributions extend to keynote addresses, such as at Museums & Galleries Queensland conferences, and recognition including a Mayor's Access Recognition Award and state honors for disability advocacy.