2008 Make a Difference Project

The Interior Design Educator’s Council Social Justice Network presents the projects of the 2008 Interior Design Student Make a Difference Project. This initiative involved design students in identifying a real-life problem that could be made better through a design of some kind. Students then created and installed a small, meaningful design solution, either temporary or permanent, and finally, observed and photo documented what happened when people encountered and used their environmental idea.

In its second year, 49 projects were completed by single students or student teams.  Eleven instructor sponsors at seven different institutions facilitated these students' efforts. In the spirit that each and every effort to make the world a better place has worth, all student projects are provided here, organized by institution, without priority or editing.

- algonquin college

- appalachian state university

- florida state university

- international academy of design & technology

- savannah college of art & design - atlanta

- university of minnesota

- university of north carolina – greensboro