Faculty and students from the Department of Interior Design were honored at this year’s Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC) Conference. The annual conference was held March 6 – 8 in New Orleans, LA.
Best Paper: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Candy Carmel-Gilfilen, IND undergraduate coordinator and Meg Portillo, IND chair and professor, and won the Best Paper award for “Innovation by Empathetic Design: Narratives of Learning.”
The paper presented an original a case study featuring the role of empathy in the design of healthcare environments by sharing an innovative process for fostering empathy in design thinking through narrative inquiry.
Paper Presentations
Nichole Campbell, IND assistant professor, presented “Third Place Characteristics: Predictors of How Well Social Spaces are Liked and Used.”
The paper examines research regarding third place characteristics as predictors of how well social spaces are liked and used by retirement community residents.
Pamela Driza, DCP doctoral student, and Nam-Kyu Park, IND assistant professor and graduate coordinator, presented “How Satisfied are Occupants with the Indoor Environmental Quality in LEED- Certified Higher Education Buildings?”
This study sought to assess occupant satisfaction within LEED-certified higher education buildings and determine the extent to which certification helps to enhance indoor environmental quality.
Marty Hylton, IND assistant professor and director of the Historic Preservation Program, presented “Designing an Identity for Nantucket: The Jared Coffin House and the White Elephant Hotels by William Pahlmann Associates.”
Student Scholarships
Tiffany Lang, DCP doctoral student, received the 2014 IDEC Foundation Travel Scholarship. This grant is administered as an international competition among graduate students of interior design and covers travel expenses to the 2014 IDEC Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. Tiffany is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the College of Design, Construction, Planning within the Department of Interior Design. She also holds a Master of Interior Design degree and an Interdisciplinary Concentration and Certificate in Historic Preservation from UF, along with an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of the Virgin Islands.
Additional Information
Meg Portillo, IND chair and professor, led a well-attended preconference Writers Workshop and participated in a panel on future directions in academic publishing.