Jayne Kelley is founding director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, a center for research and publication at UIC shared across the School of Architecture and the School of Design. She also teaches seminars and lecture courses in the School of Architecture.
Her research and professional interests relate to the mediation of architecture and design—in particular, how these disciplines meet a wider public. She is active as an editor and editorial advisor; she has also worked extensively on projects related to institutional communications and archives, including at both UIC and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal.
She is co-editor of two volumes of The Museum Is Not Enough (no. 1–9, CCA/Sternberg, 2019; no. 10–14, CCA/Lenz, 2025); co-editor of American Framing: The Same Something for Everyone (Park, 2023); and co-author of The Western Town (Hatje Cantz, 2013).
