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ADC103 Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design Jury
Juliet Kavishe
Vice President
ICoD
Johannesburg, South Africa
Juliet is a practicing Professional Interior Architect, Design Educator and a Design competition juror. With a career
spanning 17 years and two continents, she has worked as an Interior Architect and Architectural Designer on
projects with a focus on residential homes and commercial and corporate workspaces globally. Juliet is an
Executive Board Member of the PADI (Pan Afrikan Design Institute) where they are striving to create a Design
community specifically for Design professionals and academics with a focus on African Design and African-focused
Design education. Juliet is also a Vice President of the ICoD (The International Council of Design) whose mission is
to increase the recognition of the value of design, elevate the global standards of all design disciplines, and improve
the situation of individual designers everywhere. Her education was further bolstered by a traineeship focusing on
bridging the gap between spatial design and curatorship of artworks at New York’s Guggenheim Museum where
she worked closely with Architects and Curators to ensure the vision of both disciplines was met.
Juliet has written and contributed to publications in conference proceedings and books and has a solid publication
record in internationally indexed academic journals and publications. Her passion for the promotion of the Design
profession, particularly within a broader African context has led to various opportunities to share her expertise in
Interior Architecture, including a lecture on sustainable design and traditional African building practices at the World
Policy Institute in New York, USA, a lecture on a Reimagined African Writing System at the 2022 DECOREX Summit,
and call-up as Juror for the Caesarstone Student Design competition from 2019 to 2024. She went on to compose
the Caesarstone Student Design competition brief for 2020/21, which was one of the most successful briefs dealing
exclusively with Adaptive Re-Use of sites and buildings and will be composing the 2024 competition brief.
Juliet’s upbringing in four countries on two continents and extensive travels have inspired her to create spaces
influenced by her global citizenship. Juliet’s personal Design Motto is that Architecture or Design is achieved once
you consider the complexities and interrelationships of human beings and their surroundings. Design education,
Curatorship, African Design and the Written language are her current research and practice areas of interest.
spanning 17 years and two continents, she has worked as an Interior Architect and Architectural Designer on
projects with a focus on residential homes and commercial and corporate workspaces globally. Juliet is an
Executive Board Member of the PADI (Pan Afrikan Design Institute) where they are striving to create a Design
community specifically for Design professionals and academics with a focus on African Design and African-focused
Design education. Juliet is also a Vice President of the ICoD (The International Council of Design) whose mission is
to increase the recognition of the value of design, elevate the global standards of all design disciplines, and improve
the situation of individual designers everywhere. Her education was further bolstered by a traineeship focusing on
bridging the gap between spatial design and curatorship of artworks at New York’s Guggenheim Museum where
she worked closely with Architects and Curators to ensure the vision of both disciplines was met.
Juliet has written and contributed to publications in conference proceedings and books and has a solid publication
record in internationally indexed academic journals and publications. Her passion for the promotion of the Design
profession, particularly within a broader African context has led to various opportunities to share her expertise in
Interior Architecture, including a lecture on sustainable design and traditional African building practices at the World
Policy Institute in New York, USA, a lecture on a Reimagined African Writing System at the 2022 DECOREX Summit,
and call-up as Juror for the Caesarstone Student Design competition from 2019 to 2024. She went on to compose
the Caesarstone Student Design competition brief for 2020/21, which was one of the most successful briefs dealing
exclusively with Adaptive Re-Use of sites and buildings and will be composing the 2024 competition brief.
Juliet’s upbringing in four countries on two continents and extensive travels have inspired her to create spaces
influenced by her global citizenship. Juliet’s personal Design Motto is that Architecture or Design is achieved once
you consider the complexities and interrelationships of human beings and their surroundings. Design education,
Curatorship, African Design and the Written language are her current research and practice areas of interest.