Jill Pable

Jill Pable is a professor with the Interior Architecture & Design Department at Florida State University and the creator of Design Resources for Homelessness, a non-profit resource offering research-informed practical design strategies for the design of supportive housing and shelters.  These ideas have been featured in NBC News Online, FastCompany, the Conversation, the Independent, TEDtalks and National Public Radio. Her research focuses on the design of environments for people in crisis and she is the recipient of the ASID national Luminary Award, the Arnold Friedmann lifetime achievement award and was noted by DesignIntelligence as one of the 30 Most Admired Design Educators in the United States. Her co-authored work Homelessness and the Built Environment: Designing for Unhoused Persons was awarded the 2022 Interior Design Educators Council National Book Award.  She believes that design can make life more interesting, fulfilling and humane.