IIDA Roundtable Report on The State of Interior Design Education

A new year tends to bring time for reflection…reflection on a year that has just past, on life, accomplishments and failures, dreams and goals yet to be achieved. Some of those goals are centered on our careers – what we’d like to accomplish in the next year and beyond, positive changes we’d like to make in our daily work, and the like. Depending on whom you ask, this “New Year” exercise can be anything from helpful to a waste of time. However, it cannot be disputed that taking time to put even a minimal amount of bigger-picture reflection into each year (at the very least) can only benefit the reflector. It’s on this note, we bring to you the results of the IIDA’s Educators Roundtable held in October 2017, a report titled, “The State of Interior Design Education: Wellness. Well-Being. Diversity. Social Responsibility.” The roundtable, hosted by the IIDA and …