Noor Danielle Murteza

Visiting Assistant Professor, Interior Design

Email:
nmurteza@iu.edu
Campus:
IU Bloomington
Kirkwood Hall 111

Education

  • Ph.D., Arts Administration, Education, and Policy with an emphasis in Museum Education, Ohio State University
  • M.F.A., Design Research and Development, Ohio State University
  • B.A., Interior Architecture and Design, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

About

Noor Danielle Murteza, M.F.A., Ph.D. is an interior designer, design researcher, and arts educator whose work focuses on the intersections of fractal patterns, biophilia, wellbeing, and education. She specializes in co-design methodologies and engages in both scholarly and creative practice through teaching, research, exhibition, and publication.

She has presented her work at national and international conferences and is a co-founder of trace layer play, an arts-based research collective. Her contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Manuel Barkan Fellowship in Arts Education, the Stand Up for Shakespeare Community Engagement Grant, and the Ohio Arts Council Arts Partnership Grant.

Dr. Murteza joined the Indiana University faculty in Autumn 2025, where she teaches a range of interior design studios. She draws inspiration from the natural world and considers it a privilege to witness the slow turning of the seasons in the Midwest, especially the brilliant arrival of autumn.

Recent Publications

Noor Danielle Murteza (2024). “A Walk in the Park: Towards Developing a Fractal Pedagogy of Well-being.” Visual Inquiry Learning and Teaching Art, 13 (1), pp. 49–66, https://doi.org/10.1386/vi_00110_1

Peter Chan, Ben McCorkle, and Noor Danielle Murteza (2024). “Taller than the trees: Growing a biophilic sensibility in a photo-graphic design studio course”, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9–13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.731

Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Noor D. Murteza, and Madison Sabatelli (2022). "Pizza and Poop: Using Playful Probes to Investigate Community in Semi-Public Restrooms on a University Campus." Architecture 2, no. 1: 95-113. https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture2010006