2019 IIDA Educators Roundtable Report

IIDA recently released its 2019 IIDA Educators Roundtable Report – a report put together post-gathering of a roundtable of industry educators and practitioners intending to empower the design profession through meaningful dialogue about how we educate and foster the talents of design students and emerging designers. The 2019 edition of the IIDA Educators Roundtable was hosted by Milliken at its Roger Milliken Campus in Spartanburg, South Carolina, as a two-day event in March 2019. The report is succinct and contains valuable insights about the challenges faced by the architecture and design field A key takeaway from the report is that the demographics of design students and emerging designers is changing – scratch that, has already changed drastically – and the next generation of designers will be much more diverse than prior ones. From the report: “In terms of demographics, today’s interior design students differ dramatically from students of past decades, …