Associate Professor Jess Berry

Associate Professor Jess Berry

Associate Professor Jess Berry

Senior Lecturer, Design Theory
Associate Dean, Graduate Research

Department of Design

Monash University Research Portal

Graduate research supervisor

Dr Jess Berry is Associate Professor, 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 Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/cinematic-style-9781350137622/; House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/house-of-fashion-9781474283403/; and the co-edited volume Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space https://www.routledge.com/Contentious-Cities-Design-and-the-Gendered-Production-of-Space/Berry-Moore-Kalms-Bawden/p/book/9780367520212

News & events

Recent news

Upcoming events

Research in Action Symposium explores impactful research with industry collaboration

Monash Art, Design and Architecture’s inaugural Research in Action Symposium on  4-5 June 2025, brought together industry, researchers, and PhD candidates in an ambitious two-day program dedicated to practice-led, interdisciplinary and impact-driven research.
19 June, 2025

Research

XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Research lab

House of Fashion

An interdisciplinary study examining relationship between fashion, the interior and architecture.

HyperSext City

Drawing attention to the experiences of women, girls and LGBTQI+ communities by presenting data and intersectional narratives of gender.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Merri Creek, Coburg Safety Audit

Women’s Safety Audits: A transformative approach to safety in the city.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space

Unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Keep Running

Keep Running is a call to action for communities to develop an understanding of safety and risk in our city and an opportunity for audiences to consider their own lived experience and/or to develop understanding and empathy.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Greater Cities Commission: Women’s Safety Charter Workshop

The Commission engaged the Monash University XYX Lab to deliver an impact workshop as part of the June 2022 Community of Practice.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

HyperSext City 2

Re-designed to amplify the experiences of women*, girls and LGBTQI+ communities through new mediums revealing existing data sources globally and locally to spectacular effect both inside the gallery and on the streets of Fremantle.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place

Built Upon By Design Symposium

A three-day intensive symposium to engage with issues of gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.
XYX Lab – Gender + Place