New Edition of Interior Design Body of Knowledge S

Chicago, IL, April 11, 2006--The professional interior design organizations, the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER), Interior Designers of Canada (IDC), Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) announced the release of The Interior Design Profession’s Body of Knowledge, 2005 Edition is now available to the interior design community. The 2005 edition is an update of the original study, published in 2001 and developed by Caren S. Martin, Ph.D., CID, ASID, IIDA, and Denise Guerin, Ph.D., FIDEC, ASID, IIDA, of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) funded the original study. The overarching goal of the study is to continue to define and document the interior design profession’s body of knowledge--the abstract knowledge needed by practitioners to perform the profession’s work--and to initiate and sustain a dialogue among educators and interior designers to document changes over time. This edition of the professional practice paper represents a snapshot of where the interior design profession’s body of knowledge is today. For the first time, this edition weighs 96 knowledge areas to determine their levels of importance to the practice of interior design. The knowledge areas are divided into six major categories 1. Human Environment Needs 2. Interior Construction, Codes, and Regulations 3. Design 4. Products and Materials 5. Professional Practice 6. Communication A PDF of the Body of Knowledge is available for download on the jointly sponsored career Web site at www.careersininteriordesign.com and via links from the Web sites of the supporting consortium of design organizations: www.asid.org, www.accredit-id.org, www.interiordesigncanada.org, www.iida.org and www.ncidq.org.

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