This month we are pleased to bring you expert knowledge and opinions from practitioners and industry stakeholders across the United States. They share their work, provide insights on adapting to remote work scenarios and tips on how they have implemented spatial flexibility at home to support their business success.
“IFI Voices – Exchanging Ideas” emphasizes the business and market contributions of design. It does this by spotlighting the latest projects and products, while hearing from design leaders working in local and global contexts on topical issues.
Clockwise from top left: Microsoft Envisioning Center by Studio O+A, photo: Jeremy Bitterman; Montauk House by Desai Chia Architecture, photo: Paul Warchol; Dhamaka restaurant by Wid Chapman Architects, photo: Will Ellis; Kirland & Ellis LLP by Rottet Studio, photo: Eric Laignel; Courtyard House by Lake|Flato Architecture, photo: Casey Dunn
IFI wants to listen to and share your voice with the world through this initiative. Working in partnership with Design Diffusion News Magazine (DDN), IFI Voices focuses on a different nation, world region or issue in nine (9) editions per year. Click on the link below to hear from designers and industry leadership around the world.
This initiative gathers expert knowledge and opinions from practitioners and the local community on topical issues relating to the design market. IFI wants to listen to and share your voice with the world.
Look for the next issue in June featuring the United Kingdom
Access full issue of DDN266 here
We are delighted to share exemplary talent and creativity that exists within the IFI world community. We look forward to getting to know more of you and showcasing work you think is noteworthy. We hope you enjoy this. We welcome your comments – please connect with us.
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The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) is the global voice and authority for professional Interior Architects/Designers. As the singular Federation of Associations, IFI acts as a global forum for the exchange and development of professional practice, knowledge and experience, along with education, research and design advocacy worldwide. IFI connects the international community to further the impact, influence and application of the design of interiors, promote social responsibility, and raise the global status of the profession. An international not-for-profit, founded in 1963, IFI expands the international network of professional Interior Architects/Designers.
IFI believes in the power of Design as a vehicle for human betterment and productive improvement. IFI recognizes that all people are equal across the world and that well-designed environments help to uplift humanity and civil society. It promotes equal rights and access to Interior Architecture/Design practice, research and education to be granted equally to all who wish to pursue it. This is regardless of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, cultural heritage and socio-economic background, and not-withstanding disparities brought forth across different regional contexts. That good and quality Design requires to foundationally take into consideration these and other such evolving factors as technological innovation, globalization, economic and political instability and social inequality, as well as holistic consideration of the environmental/sustainable factors.