Joy Hook Dohr

Joy H. Dohr's discovery of design began in a design fundamentals class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960. In 1980, she returned as the Professor leading that class, as well as upper level courses in color theory, creativity, and scholarship of design inquiry. Besides teaching and design research, she served the institution as Chair of Design Studies and was an Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. She served her field as President of IDEC, a Board member of CIDA and of the IIDA Foundation and as an adviser to numerous programs. Joy was named a Fellow of IDEC for her work in the field in 1989 and in 1999, she received the IIDA/Teknion award for Excellence in Education in recognition of her contributions. Since 2006, she is a presenter and writer on design scholarship at the graduate level, on a global view of design--as process and experience--and on its ultimate impact of civility, empathy, place-identity and innovation. Her book with Margaret Portillo, "Design Thinking for Interiors: inquiry + experience + impact" draws from this rich background and the lessons learned about what makes design memorable. Dohr holds to Robert Finch statement, "We love not so much what we have acquired, but what we have made and who we have made it with."