Rate My Professor Rana Abudayyeh

Abudayyeh's research focuses on interiority as a site of lived experience, especially in displacement, conflict, and social precarity. Her work explores improvised vernacular spatial practices for placemaking, cultural continuity, and societal transformation, intersecting spatial justice, representation, digital making, and AI-mediated technologies with an emphasis on ethical, human-centered design. Her publications appear in Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture, Journal of Interior Design, Interiority, MONU, IDEA Journal, and Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse. Notable works include "Grafting Interiority: Generative Methodologies Between the Natural and the Synthetic" (Interiority, 2021), "The Changing Room: Towards an Interior Multiplicity" (Interiors, 2021), and "Understanding the Micro-Urban Commons as a Shared Public Interior Framework" (Journal of Interior Design, 2023). She has contributed to edited volumes such as Upkeep: Repair and Maintenance in Adaptive Interiors, Public Interiority, Informality and the City, and Speculative Coolness, and is currently editing The Routledge Companion to Human-Centered Interior Design (forthcoming 2027). Among her honors are the IIDA Educator Diversity Award and the IDEC Teaching Excellence Award. Her expertise encompasses computer-based design tools, advanced manufacturing, innovative materials, refugee camp strategies, adaptive interiors, and green wall systems.