Jain Kwon, PhD, is an assistant professor of Interior Design at The University of Georgia. She earned her PhD degree in design from the University of Minnesota. Kwon's academic research focuses on sociocultural aspects of design and symbolic interac
...MoreJain Kwon, PhD, is an assistant professor of Interior Design at The University of Georgia. She earned her PhD degree in design from the University of Minnesota. Kwon's academic research focuses on sociocultural aspects of design and symbolic interaction in built environment. She teaches interior design studios and research methods at undergraduate and graduate levels. Kwon’s pedagogic approach is in consideration of sociocultural sustainability in design process. She is one of the contributors to The State of the Interior Design Profession (Fairchild, 2010) and The Language for Space Design (Nalmada, 2011). Kwon holds an interior architect license from the Korea Ministry of Labor. Kwon received the Juran Doctoral Award in 2007 for her work on an integrative design approach to continuous quality development of healthcare environments.
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