CIDA Launches Future Vision 2021

CIDA launches Future Vision 2021

The Council for Interior Design Accreditation Board of Directors is joining with industry visionaries to establish priorities for the future of interior design higher education. Selected for their expertise and thought leadership, invited participants will join CIDA’s Board and Standards Committee at a series of Future Vision sessions throughout March 2021.

The goal of Future Vision is to document interior design’s inherent value and model a future where the profession advances and thrives. This future modeling is used to establish educational priorities for future interior design graduates.

CIDA’s Future Vision participants include:

Interior design practice

Julie McHood Barfuss, Interior Designer, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt
Lake City, UT
William Bouchey, Director of Design, HOK, Los Angeles, CA
Gabrielle Bullock, Principal and Director of Global Diversity, Perkins and Will, Los
Angeles, CA
Vincent Carter, Principal, VGCAI, Washington, DC (CIDA Board)
Victoria Horobin, Principal, KBH Interior Design, Toronto, ON (CIDA Board)
Jacqueline McFarland, Senior Associate, Stantec, Calgary, AB (CIDA Standards
Committee)
Rachelle Schoessler Lynn, Director of Workplace, Gensler, Minneapolis, MN
(CIDA Board)
Ian Rolston, Lead Decanthropist, Decanthropy, Toronto, ON
Louis Schump, Creative Director, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
Felice Silverman, Principal at Silverman Trykowski Associates, Inc., Boston, MA
(CIDA Board)
Kia Weatherspoon, President, Interior Design Advocate, Determined by Design,
Washington, DC
James Williamson, Design Management Leader, Principal, Gensler, Washington,
DC (CIDA Standards Committee)

Interior design education

Katherine Ankerson, Dean, College of Architecture, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE (CIDA Board)
Laura Cole, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Interior Design Program Coordinator,
College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Ph.D., Northrop Professor and Professor of Interior Design,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Migette Kaup, Ph.D., Professor and Interior Design Program Coordinator, Kansas
State University, Manhattan, KS (CIDA Standards Committee)
Margaret Portillo, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research + Strategic Initiatives,
College of Design, Construction, and Planning, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL (CIDA Board)
Pamela Evans, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Kent State University, Kent, OH (CIDA
Standards Committee)
Katherine Setser, Assistant Professor, Architecture + Interior Design
Department, Miami University, Miami, OH (CIDA Board)
Lisa Waxman, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Interior Architecture &
Design, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (CIDA Standards
Committee)

Industry and related disciplines

Jennifer Busch, Director Client Partnerships, Eventscape (CIDA Board)
Jan Johnson, Head of Workplace Strategy, Allsteel, Chicago, IL
Susan Wiggins, Executive Director, Ontario Professional Planners Institute
(OPPI), Toronto, ON (CIDA Board) 

States Katherine Ankerson, AIA, FIDEC, FIIDA, NCARB, CIDA Board Chair, “CIDA is continually evolving how it examines the future relative to accreditation standards. This year, in addition to looking at trends impacting industry, we are distilling interior design’s value and modeling its future potential. The ultimate aim is to land on educational priorities for future interior design graduates. The community at large will be consulted as CIDA uses Future Vision results to craft accreditation standards throughout 2021. Revised accreditation standards are slated for publication in January 2022 with an effective date to be determined.”

The Council for Interior Design Accreditation is an independent, non-profit, accrediting organization responsible for setting standards and evaluating degree-granting interior design programs. There are 175 CIDA-accredited programs in the U.S., Canada, Qatar, and the UAE.

CIDA gratefully acknowledges Future Vision sponsor Allsteel.