Interior Design

Email: jiawuindiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-5223

Jiangmei Wu earned her undergraduate degree in urban planning and design from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University in Shanghai, her master of science in interior design and her master of fine arts in graphic design, both from Indiana University. As a certified LEED AP with a specialty in Interior Design and Construction, Wu's main academic interests include sustainable design, interaction design, user responsive design, information design. She teaches fundamental design studios and presentation classes with an emphasis on digital presentation techniques. Besides her teaching experience, she has more than ten years of professional experience in interactive design, graphic design, architectural and interior visualization, multimedia production, website design and programming, and instructional technologies. She has served as a lead designer and programmer in numerous CD-ROM publishing and award-winning website projects for advertising firm Hirons & Company and Indiana University. Wu also coauthored Living Design: The Daoist Way of Building (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998) with C. Thomas Mitchell. In Living Design, Wu completed a visual survey of Chinese traditional architecture and analyzed the Chinese design principles and Chinese belief system that are embodied in various buildings in the context of user-responsive design.