Jess Berry

Senior Lecturer, Department of Design

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5577-0526

EmailJess.Berry@monash.edu

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Biography

Dr Jess Berry is Senior Lecturer, Design History and Theory. Her research primarily centres around the visual culture of fashion and dress and its interdisciplinary intersections with interior design, architecture, art, new media and film. Berry’s recent publications include 'Mode of a Modern Muse: Fashion and Interior in Edouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misa Natanson' in Designing the French Interior edited by Anca Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor (Bloomsbury 2015); articles in the Journal of Design History, Craft + Design Enquiry, Critical Studies in Men's Fashion and Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion Beauty and Style. Her current project is the monograph, House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/house-of-fashion-9781474283403/

Research interests

History and theory of modernism through interdisciplinary approaches to fashion/interior/architecture

Critical approaches to fashion/interior discourses and representation

Fashion as an expanded field/mobile image

Gender and diversity in design practice/history and theory

Body and spatial practices related to fashion, interior design, architecture and film

Education/Academic qualification

Visual Arts, Doctorate, Griffith University

2003 → 2006

Award Date: 1 Nov 2006

Research area keywords

fashion, interior design, history/theory, architecture,

Network

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5 Finished

Hypersext City
Kalms, N., Bawden, G., Berry, J., Matthewson, G., Moore, T. & Webb, I.
4/03/21 → 9/04/21
Project: Research
Community Safety Audit of Merri Creek Trail – Coburg Precinct
Kalms, N., Bawden, G., Matthewson, G. & Berry, J.
Moreland City Council
4/03/20 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Investigating young women’s experiences of Sydney at Night
Kalms, N., Matthewson, G., Berry, J., Bawden, G. & Fileborn, B.
The Committee for Sydney Incorporated
3/12/18 → 15/02/19
Project: Research
Safer Cities
Kalms, N., Matthewson, G., Berry, J. & Bawden, G.
Plan International Australia
26/10/18 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
Development and Pilot of a Gender Gap App
Kalms, N., Bawden, G., Matthewson, G., Berry, J., Webb, I., Aisenberg, A., Robertson, F. & Sturmfels, B.
21/11/17 → 31/08/18
Project: Research

8 Chapter (Book)
7 Article
1 Book
1 Edited Book
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- 1 Comment / Debate
- 1 Design / Architecture

Catwalking the city: the pleasures and politics of fashioning the metropolis
Berry, J., 2021, Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space. Oxon, UK: Routledge, p. 137-148 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space
Berry, J. (ed.), Moore, T. (ed.), Kalms, N. (ed.) & Bawden, G. (ed.), 2021, Oxon, UK: Routledge. 266 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book
Introduction: Contentious cities
Berry, J., Moore, T., Kalms, N. & Bawden, G., 2021, Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space. Oxon, UK: Routledge, p. 1-9 9 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Gluttonous Glamour: Gastro-Porn and the Grotesque in Contemporary Fashion Photography
Berry, J., 2019, Fashion and Contemporaneity: Realms of the Visible. Petican, L. (ed.). Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, p. 113-131 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior
Berry, J., 2018, London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. 213 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

2019 Premier's Design Awards - Service Design: SHEcity - Finalist
Kalms, Nicole (Recipient), Bawden, Gene (Recipient), Berry, Jess (Recipient), Pamela Salen (Recipient), Hannah Korsmeyer (Recipient), Allison Edwards (Recipient) & Zoe Condliffe (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

2 Contribution to conference
2 Public lecture/debate/seminar
2 Public event

Tram Lab: Improving the Safety of Women and Girls on Pubic Transport
Nicole Kalms (Contributor), Gene Bawden (Contributor), Gill Matthewson (Contributor), Ilya Fridman (Contributor), Jess Berry (Contributor), Hannah Korsmeyer (Contributor), Allison Edwards (Contributor) & Isabella Webb (Contributor)
20 Nov 2019
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Melbourne Design Week presentation
Jess Berry (Contributor)
17 Mar 2019
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Glitch: Photography, Critical Image-Making, and the Construction of the Architectural Image. Melbourne Design Week Symposium. Co-organizer and participant in roundtable discussion.
Jess Berry (Speaker)
31 Mar 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Public talk
Jess Berry (Contributor)
22 Aug 2018
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures
Jess Berry (Speaker)
19 Jul 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference

ARCHITECTUREAU: 'Gender inequity in public spaces'
Gene Bawden, Nicole Kalms, Jess Berry, Gill Matthewson, Timothy Moore & Isabella Webb
16/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature