Jan Smitheram

Contributor Profile

Dr Jan Smitheram is Associate Dean in the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students. Extending work from her Ph.D. she looks at the relationship between performance, performativity and affect within the context of architecture.

Measuring success

Practice | Jan Smitheram surveys the meaning of success and shows how pluralistic notions offer a way to unpack the traditional meanings, but with a cautionary twist.

Dr Jan Smitheram: On time

Practice | This Victoria University researcher compares how practising architects, students and academics experience time and finds that it is understood variously.