Professor Jane Anderson

PhD, BArch (Hons), RIBA, ARB, PGCE (LTHE), PFHEA, NTF

Programme Lead for Undergraduate Architecture

School of Architecture

Jane Anderson

Role

Teaching and supervision

Modules taught

  • Module leader for ARCH4001 Introduction to Architecture 1
  • Module leader for ARCH5002+3 Architectural Design 1 + 2
  • Module leader for ARCH6005+7 Architectural Design 3 + 4
  • Year 1, 2 and 3 Coordinator.
  • Director of OB1 LIVE: a programme of undergraduate live projects commissioned by community based clients.
  • Supervisor for UG Dissertation.

Research

Research Interests

Architectural pedagogy; live projects; design build projects; community design; service learning; public interest design; architectural design, interdisciplinary practice and research, co-design; community engagement.

Research group membership

Design, Research and Practice Research Group

Research grants and awards

  • 2015 Central Research Fund. Phase 1 Award. £2921 to research live project education in South America.
  • 2014-17 National Teaching Fellowship Award. £10,000 to research live project education and develop the Live Projects Network.
  • 2014-15 Santander Research Scholarship. Award £2000 to visit South America to research live project education.
  • 2008-9 TQEF Research-Informed Teaching, Higher Education Funding Council of England. Collaborative research project with grant holder, Robert Brown (University of Plymouth). Peer Assisted Learning module with Helena Webster

Research projects

Research impact

  • Member of Editorial Board for "Charrette", the Journal of the association of architectural educators
  • Curator team, Design for the Common Good Exhibition, Denver 2022
  • Conference Chair of Architecture Connects, 4th international peer reviewed conference of the association of architectural educators, Oxford Brookes University 6-9 September 2017
  • Member of Jury for the SEED, dbXchange and Live Projects Network Awards 2017
  • Co-convener of InHabit, The Oxford University Research Centre in the Humanitie

Live Projects

  • 2021. Prototypes for Meanwhile in Oxfordshire.
  • 2020. Miss Acland's Gaze. Photographic projection installation for Photo Oxford 2020.
  • 2020. Woodland Incubator. Sylva Foundation, Long Wittenham.
  • 2019. Library of Things. Prototypes for Share Oxford.
  • 2019. Etheldreda Laing exhibition of pioneer colour photographer, Bury Knowle Library, Oxford.
  • 2018. Science Education Treehouse for the Oxford Trust, Stansfield Part, Oxford.
  • 2017. Performance Pieces, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford.
  • 2016. Fragments live build, exhibitions and Healthy Buildings feasibility study for The Hill.
  • 2016. Playable Buildings for the Audiograft Festival run by the Sonic Arts Research Unit.
  • 2015. Magdalen Wood Play Structures for Oxfordshire Play Association and Oxford City Council.
  • 2015. Construction site hoarding for GreenSquare, Northway, Oxford.
  • 2014. "Dwelling, Arrival and Entrance". Three Live Projects for the National Trust.
  • 2014. "Free Time", participatory collaboration at Templars Square Shopping Centre, Oxford.
  • 2014. Urban Sports Day", Temple Cowley, Oxford.
  • 2013. "Small Museum of Things" for Archeox community archaeology group.
  • 2013. "Found!" archaeological exhibition installation, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
  • 2013. “Collaborate”, Sixty-two different locations and organisations.
  • 2013. “Lantern Festival”, Warneford Meadow, Oxford.
  • 2012. "Breakthrough Lab" and "Domestic Appliances" for "Domestic Science" exhibition at Science Oxford.
  • 2012. "Imaginary Spaces" for "The Art Take-Away", Tsang's Kitchen, Oxford for ArtWash.
  • 2012. "Tall tales" installation for the "Other Worlds" exhibition, Oxford.
  • 2011. "Fabrications" for The Story Museum, Oxford.
  • 2011. Orientation signage for Jericho, Oxford. Oxford City Council.
  • 2010-11. Accessibility strategies for Film Oxford. Live project.
  • 2010. "Infobench" live project for Mount Place and Stratford High Street, International Architecture Student Festival.
  • 2009-10. Strategies for Place Improvement, Jericho, Oxford for Oxford City Council and local residents.
  • 2009. Tactile model for Oxfordshire Association for the Blind.
  • 2009. Movable Ticket booth for Creation Theatre Company. Broad Street plus various locations in Oxford.
  • 2008. "Sounds of the Place" movable art work. National Architecture Student Festival, Hungerford Bridge, London. Live project.
  • 2007-8. "Environmental play structures" for Donnington Doorstep Family Centre. Live project.

 

Art / Performances

  • Anderson, J., 2014. Live Fortune Telling. In: Living and Learning. aae Conference 2014, University of Sheffield.
  • Anderson, J., 2012. Imaginary Spaces. In: Art Wash, Tsang's Kitchen, Iffley Road, Oxford. 12 June 2012.

Further information

Groups

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

  • Mapping connections: Investigating experiential teaching in Community Design Education (01/07/2023 - 30/06/2025), funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, funding amount received by Brookes: £0

Publications

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Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

  • RIBA Visiting Board member
  • Founder member of the Association for Architectural Educators

Areas of expertise

  • National Teaching Fellow
  • Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • RIBA Chartered and ARB Registered Architect
  • RIAI Registered Architect
  • External Examiner
  • Brookes Teaching Fellow
  • Project architect with extensive project management experience.

Conferences

  • Anderson, J. et al., Expanding the Common Good. In: Design as Common Good, Swss Design Network Online Symposium, 25-26 March 2021
  • Anderson, J., 2019. Keynote. Live Projects: linking education, research and practice. In: RIBA Research Matters Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 17-18 October 2019
  • Anderson, J., 2017. Healthy Buildings. Two phases of a live project. In: Architecture Connects, 4th international peer reviewed conference of the association of architectural educators, Oxford Brookes University 6-9 September 2017.
  • Anderson, J., 2017. Little Big Design Strategies. In: Design Corps Public Interest Design Institute, Portland, Oregon, 6-7 April 2017.
  • Anderson, J., 2016. The design research methodology of Atelier Bow Wow. In: DR_SoM ARENA Design Research, Series on Method, University of Reading, 22 Apr 2016
  • Anderson, J. and Morrow, R., 2016. Framing your live project within a design research methodology. In: Research Based Education 2016, 3rd AAE conference, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, 9 Apr 2016.
  • Anderson, J., 2015. Live Projects as evidence of transformative learning. In: NTNU TRANsark conference. Trondheim, Norway, Apr 23, 2015
  • Anderson, J., 2014. Facts and Figments. Imagination and reality in DesignBuild education. In: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 2014 Fall Conference. WORKING OUT. Thinking while building. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 16-18 October 2014.
  • Anderson, J., 2014. Woodland Creatures and Fabrication Wizards. Resources, Product, Context and Motivation observed in a Taxonomy of Live Projects. In: Living and Learning. aae conference 3-5 September 2014. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6nmza2z0uor8sj/aae%202014%20conference%20proceedings.pdf?dl=0
  • Anderson, J., 2014. Live Project Assessment. The Uncertainty Principle. Keynote presentation. In: HEA STEM Seminar. ‘Live Project’ pedagogy into practice: co-authoring an assessment criteria. Oxford Brookes University, 21 February 2014. Link: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/STEM_BE_21_02_2014
  • Anderson, J. and Priest, C., 2013. Fabrications for The Story Museum. Reality and imagination in architectural design. In: writingplace conference. TU Delft, 25-27 November 2013. Link: https://writingplace.org/?page_id=2093
  • Anderson, J., 2013. Live Projects Review of Health and Life Sciences Disciplines, Oxford Brookes University. In: Away Day for Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Oxford Brookes University, 21 November 2013.
  • Anderson, J., 2013. Live Projects Review of Technology, Design and Environment Disciplines at Oxford Brookes University. In: Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment Development Day. Oxford Brookes University, 4 July 2013.
  • Anderson, J., 2013. Undercurrent: swimming away from the design studio. In: Association of Architectural Educators, (un)common currency: AAE Conference. Nottingham Trent University, 4-5 April 2013. (proceedings)
  • Anderson, J., 2013. You live and learn: a pedagogical case for live projects. In: Brookes Teaching and Learning Conference 2013 . Oxford Brookes University, 27 March 2013.
  • Anderson, J. & Priest, C., 2012. Developing a live projects network and flexible methodology for live projects. In: Oxford Brookes University, Live Projects Pedagogy International Symposium. Oxford, U.K. 24-26 May 2012.
  • Anderson, J. and Priest, C., 2012. Fabricating spatial narratives for The Story Museum. Paper presented at the Spatial Perspectives: Literature and Architecture 1850-present conference at the University of Oxford.
  • Anderson, J. and Priest, C., 2012. Developing a live projects network. Paper presented at the Live Projects Pedagogy International Symposium at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
  • Anderson, J. and Priest, C., 2011. OB1 LIVE An Agent for Architectural Education and Practice. Paper presented at the Live Projects 2011 Colloquium at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Further details

Press, publicity and reviews

Press

  • "Mehr Praxis", Baunetzwoche no.276 (online) 18 May 2017
  • "Literatur und Architectur", Baunetzwoche no.276 (online) 29 June 2012
  • "Are you sitting comfortably?", Oxford Mail. 25 October 2011
  • "Telling the story of Oxford's past", Oxford Mail. 14 April 2011
  • "Grand Designs for City Square", Oxford Mail. 16 December 2009
  • BBC Radio Oxford interview with Malcolm Boyden. Broadcast 4 December 2009
  • Evans, B., 2003. Park Life. The Architects' Journal. No.22, volume 217. (p.38-47)

Other publicity

Exhibitions

  • Oct 2020. Acland's Gaze, photo projection installation for Photo Oxford 2020, Gloucester Green, Oxford.
  • Jan-March 2017. Digital Wellbeing Hub, The Gallery, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford.
  • Oct-Nov 2016. Healthy Buildings, The Abercrombie Atrium, Oxford Brookes University
  • Oct 2014. "Dwelling, Arrival and Entrance". Ightham Mote, Kent for the National Trust.
  • Mar 2014. "Free Time", Templars Square Shopping Centre, Oxford.
  • Oct 2013. "Found!" Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
  • Oct 2012. "Domestic Science", Science Oxford, Oxford.
  • April-June 2012. "Tall tales" for the "Other Worlds" exhibition, The Story Museum, Oxford.

Events

  • Mar 2016. Playable Buildings for the Audiograft Festival run by the Sonic Arts Research Unit, The Plaza, Oxford Brookes University.
  • Feb 2014. Urban Sports Day", Temple Cowley, Oxford.
  • 2013. “Lantern Festival”, Warneford Meadow, Oxford.
  • June 2010. "Infobench", Mount Place, Oxford and Stratford High Street, London. International Architecture Student Festival.
  • 2008. "Sounds of the Place" Hungerford Bridge, London. National Architecture Student Festival,

Art Pieces / Performances

  • Anderson, J., 2014. Live Fortune Telling. In: Living and Learning. aae Conference 2014, University of Sheffield.
  • 2012. "Imaginary Spaces" for "The Art Take-Away", Tsang's Kitchen, Oxford for ArtWash.