New Academic and Professional Challenges in Interior Design: Minimizing the Schism
The boundaries between creative thinking and business sense are thickening in the profession of interior design. We often find ourselves compromising one to the other. Such conflict is often accentuated by the increased emphasis in academic programs on abstract creativity without venues and connection to the real world. In reverse, practices are more and more inclined to practicality, flashiness and cost reduction. While academic programs lack coherence, interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration between various programs and industries, professionals are in desperate need for regulation and legislation. More than ever, the challenges that face both the academic and the professional world should come under scrutiny. However, this study will review and examine recent literature about the ongoing debate and critique found in various circles, which seek to minimize this schism.
El-Khoury Assouad, Nada, and Giovanni De Paoli. 2013. Mobility & design. Paris: Europia Productions.
