Make a Difference Project

The Interior Design Educators Council Social Justice Network presents the projects of the 2007 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 first year, 104 projects were completed by single students or student teams. Thirteen instructor sponsors at nine 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.

• appalachian state university
• eastern kentucky university
• florida state university
• marylhurst university
• savannah college of art & design
• stephen f. austin state university
• university of minnesota
• university of texas at san antonio
• west virginia university