Migette Kaup, Ph.D., FIDEC, IIDA, ASID, NCIDQ

Professor and Interior Design Program Coordinator
College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University, Manhattan
CIDA Standards Committee

Expertise/Specialization/Interests: gerontology, long-term care environments for the elderly, human behavior and place, skilled care settings

What is the highest and best purpose of interior design?

Interior design is an action as well as an outcome. To act as a designer is to facilitate a process of decision making that engages the creative arts and the functional sciences of human behavior to develop a solution that responds appropriately to the human context. To be in a designed environment is to experience a surround that evokes the spirit, supports emotion, and provides for a fluid interaction with the features of space and others who occupy it with you.