Meanings of Designed Spaces: Social, Cultural and Philosophical Essays About Spaces, People and the Designed World

Tiiu Poldma, PhD, ARIDNB, DRS, IDC, IDEC, is an academic and award-winning researcher and currently the Vice Dean of Graduate Research in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Montreal. She also coordinates the interior design program at the School of Industrial Design. Her expertise includes creating spaces in flexible and temporal environments using light, color and design elements through changing human user experiences of interior space. Born in Montreal, Poldma has practiced as an interior designer for over 30 years with projects in North America and Australia. Design awards include finalist with Raymond Girard for Toque at the Concourse Commerce Design Montreal in 1997, and Honorable Mention for the Laurentian Bank competition in collaboration with Julia Bourke architecture in 2003. Her extensive expertise as a reviewer and invited editor at several research journals and publications includes Regional Editor for the Journal of Design Research and reviewer for the International Journal of Design, Journal of Research Practice, Interscience and Learning Landscapes.