Jill B. Pable

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 
Office: 1035 William Johnston Building
Phone: (850) 645-6831
E-Mail: jpable@fsu.edu

Key teaching, Research and Service Activities

Teaching Areas

Commercial interior design, computer-aided design, current issues in interior design.

Educational Background

• PH.D. University of South Florida, Secondary Education, Instructional Technology with Architecture cognate specialization
• M.F.A. Florida State University, Interior Design with College Teaching Certificate
• B.S. Appalachian State University, Housing and Interiors

Registration

• NCIDQ passage, 1989

Recent Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

• Keynote Speaker for the 4th Annual "Power of Design", Appalachian State University, October, 2010. A student workshop for 150 was held, entitled "Hands-On Design Strategies for Collaborative Success" and then an evening keynote lecture entitled "Better Together: Design and Collaboration in the Age of Need". Served as Visiting Scholar. Press release.
• IDEC Merit Award. 2007. For leadership in the IDEC Academy continuing education initiative. International Interior Design Educator’s Council Conference, Austin, Texas.
• IDEC Creative Scholarship/Interior Design “Highest Merit” award. 2007. For research-based design programming for a homeless shelter. International Interior Design Educator’s Council Conference, Austin, Texas.
• IDEC Best Paper Presentation. 2007. “Hand-Produced versus Digital 3D Graphics: Interviews with Design Practitioners.” Interior Design Educators Council South Region Conference. Greensboro, North Carolina.
• IDEC South Region Conference Creative Scholarship/Interior Design First Place award. 2006. For research-based design programming for a homeless shelter. Interior Design Educators Council South Region Conference. Greensboro, North Carolina.

Grants

• Florida State University Council for Research and Creativity Small Project Grant: Homeless Shelter Cradle furniture design with Rachelle McClure and Sean Coyne.
• First Year Assistant Professor Grant. 2006. Summer funding for descriptive analysis study to understand attitudes of design practitioners and educators towards quick three-dimensional sketching in ideation and communication.
• Service Learning Grants. 2004-2005. For collaborative interior design/graphic design/photography project proposing a visioning design solution for the Sacramento Salvation Army homeless shelter. Also project “Wall of Hope”, an interior design/graphic design initiative creating design and construction documents for a changeable inspiration wall telling success stories of overcoming homelessness.

Publications

Homeless Shelter Design: A Psychologically Recuperative Approach (2007). IDEC Design Awards. Journal of Interior Design 32(3), 93-96.

Interior Design: Strategies for Teaching and Learning (book). With Katharine Ankerson. Reference book on instructional and learning strategies for interior design instructors.

Sketching Interiors at the Speed of Thought. 2003. 300-screen CD-ROM and 200 page workbook offering 15 interactive sketching scenarios. With video demonstration, audio and digital documentation of learner practice. Fairchild Publications.

Periodical article, “A Rebuttal: Licensing is in Hospitality Designer’s Interest”. 2001. Newsletter of the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality.

Presented papers

• Research Presentation. “Quick Three-Dimensional Sketches: Educator and Practitioners’ Use, Personal Competency, and Perceptions of Interior Design Student Preparedness”. 2007. Interior Design Educator’s Council International Conference, Austin, Texas.
• Teaching presentation, “Quick Perspective Sketching Demystified”. 2005. Neocon West Conference, Los Angeles.
• Teaching presentation, “The Situational Environment: A Student Project Exploring Mahnke’s Theory of Synesthesia.” 2004. Interior Design Educator’s Council Pacific West Regional Conference, Tempe, Arizona.
• Research presentation, “Automaticity learning theory: a means to better, faster concept sketching.” 2004. Design Communication Association Conference, San Luis Obispo, California.

Design-related service

• 2009-2010 President, Interior Design Educators Council.
• Chairperson, Interior Design Continuing Education Council task force
• Developed and facilitated 2008 Graduate Field Trip to Atlanta.
• CIDA accreditation site team visitor. 2004-present.
• Reviewer, Journal of Interior Design. 2004-present.

Memberships in Professional Organizations

• Interior Design Educators Council, member, 1990 – present.
  Fellow status, 2011.
• IDEC National president, 2009-2010.
• IDEC National secretary-treasurer, 2001-2004.
• IDEC Academy coordinator, 2005-2007.
• International Interior Design Association, professional member, 1996 – present.
• International Association of Lighting Designers, educator member, 2003 – present.
• American Society of Interior Designers, professional member, 1989 – 1996.

Academic/ Professional Interests

Interior design education and learning, social responsibility in design, sustainability