who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Buthayna Eilouti
Prince Sultan University College for
Women, Interior Design Department,
P.O. Box 53073, Riyadh 11586, Saudi
Arabia
Keywords architectural design
education, dynamic design,
responsive architecture, digital studio,
collaborative design pictorial
representation diagram
Elisabeth El Refaie
Cardiff University, School of English,
Communication and Philosophy,
Humanities Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff, CF10 3EU, United Kingdom
Keywords metaphor, memory,
comics, autobiography
Chad Elias
University of York
Keywords
Buthayna Eilouti is associate professor of Architecture and chair of
Interior design department in Prince Sultan University in KSA. She
earned a Ph.D., M.Sc. and M.Arch. in Architecture from University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States. Her research interests include:
computer applications in architecture, design programming, design
studies, methods and pedagogy, visual studies, shape grammar, Islamic
architecture, intelligent buildings and information visualization.
› A problem-based learning project for computer-supported architectural
design pedagogy, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 5.3,
197-212.
› A spatial development of a string processing tool for encoding architectural
design processing, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6.1,
57-74.
Elisabeth El Refaie works at the Centre for Language and
Communication, Cardiff University, where she teaches undergraduate
and postgraduate modules on various aspects of interpersonal and
media communication. The focus of her research is on new literacies
and visual/multimodal forms of metaphor, narrative and humour. A
recently completed British Academy-funded research project, Editorial
Cartoons and Geopolitical Perceptions, conducted in collaboration with
Kathrin Hörschelmann from Durham University, explored young
British people’s interpretations of newspaper cartoons. Her work has
appeared in several edited volumes and in a wide range of scholarly
journals, including the Journal of Pragmatics, and the Journal of
Sociolinguistics, Visual Communication, and Discourse: Studies in the
Cultural Politics of Education. She is currently writing a book on
autobiographical comics, to be published with the University Press of
Mississippi.
› Subjective time in David B.'s graphic memoir Epileptic, Studies in Comics,
1.2, 281-299.
Chad Elias is a lecturer in the History of Art at the University of York,
UK. A recent graduate of Northwestern University's Ph.D. programme
in Art History, Elias's research focuses on the politics of documentary
and archival practices in contemporary art, particularly as they relate to
the obstruction and movement of images in territories shaped by war.
› Book Reviews, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1, 151-168.