:: VOTE - ELECTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTOR OFFICERS
:: IDEC ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN MONTREAL CANADA
:: NEW PUBLISHED CALLS
:: FACE OF IDEC
:: NETWORKS ARE RUNNING STRONG!
:: EVERYONE HAS A STORY
:: NEW MEMBERS
:: RCI FOUNDATION CALLS FOR PAPERS
:: DESIGN COMPETITION - YOUR STUDENTS CAN WIN $$!
:: MAKE A DIFFERENCE PROJECT

  
  

This years’ IDEC vote is going as green as legally allowable.  In the coming days, members of IDEC with the “Professional Designation” will receive both an email and a paper ballot in the mail.  The email will have a document with all of the biographical information of each candidate as well as a copy of the actual ballot that you can print off and fax back to the main office.  Due to legal issues, a paper copy of the ballot will also be sent through the postal system that will serve as notification of the election and provide you with an opportunity to vote.  Recent typical voting patterns for Board of Directors elections have rendered less than a 20% Professional Member participation. Please let your voice be heard through this vote.

IDEC is looking forward to a fantabulous conference in Montreal on March 5-8, 2008.  Montreal is a wonderful city to visit.  Various tours will be available as well as an opportunity to venture through the underground city. 

• Passports.  Click on the US Department of State seal on the right margin and get all of the current information regarding the need for passports for travel to Canada.
• The IDEC Academy is sponsoring a great list of pre-conference workshops:  Be sure to register early to secure your seat(s).

• Effective Techniques for Success in Teaching & Learning color rendering and Sketches: A step-by-step approach of visual communication—concept, exploration and process.  6-8 hours.  Instructor: Wei Dong
• Foundations of Interior Design Teaching and Learning.  3 hours.  Instructors:  Jill Pable & Jacqualine McFarland
• Teaching Tidbits:  Successful Teaching Strategies for Interior Design.  2 hours.  Instructor:  Denise A Guerin.
• Teaching Sustainable Design.  4 hours.  Instructors:  Lisa Tucker, Louise Jones, Dorothy Fowles
• JID Writers Workshop.  4 hours.  Instructors:  JID Staff and guests.
• Revit Architecture for Interiors - An introduction, 4 hours, Instructor: Nancy Clark Brown

• Historical Symposium  - Montreal.  Join other Interior Design Educators from around the world at the Historical Symposium held prior to the Annual Conference at the Conference Hotel.  Registration information will be forthcoming with the 2008 Annual Conference registration material.

• Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday Morning March 5, 2008
• Special Guest Speaker:  Professor Penny Spark

• Penny Sparke is a Pro-Vice Chancellor at Kingston University, with responsibility for the Arts Division. She is also Professor of Design History at Kingston. Her most important publications include An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the present (1986 and 2004); Design in Context (1987); Electrical Appliances (1988); Italian Design from 1860 to the present (1989); The Plastics Age (1990); As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995); and Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005).

Other new Calls for participation and engagement include:

• Call for the 2008 IDEC Annual Conference Student Design Competition and addendum
• Call for Graduate Student Scholarship Grant to attend the 2008 Annual IDEC Conference in Montreal
• Call for the Carole Price-Shanis Scholarship Grant
• Topical Issues Grant
• Call for Papers for Special Feature Section on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy to Foster Health Initiatives 
• Call for Abstracts - Crafting an Historical Narrative of the Evolution of Interior Design (2008 Pre-conference International Historical Symposium)  

IDEC is in the process of developing the “Face of the Profession” to help showcase the diversity of the student and faculty population in the design professions.  Please participate by submitting any images that you have taken that express your program, university, travel abroad, regional or national IDEC meetings, field trips, etc.  Our goal is 5 images from at least 200 members.  For more information go to http://www.idec.org/conferences/FaceofIDEC.pdf

IDEC is a place where you can get involved and make a difference!  Fourteen Networks are waiting for you to engage and contribute in areas of skill and passion. Click on the following link to contact the Network Chair of your choice:  http://www.idec.org/membership/networks.html .

In a continuing effort to further the concept of design education, IDEC would like to assemble a series of short statements (no more than 2-3 paragraphs) on “Why I became a Design Educator”.  Everyone has a slightly unique story and we would like to have narratives from seasoned educators, educators new to academia, adjunct instructors, those ready to retire, grad students entering design education, etc.  There are clearly benefits to being an educator and we need to herald these benefits in order to encourage more graduate students and/or practitioners to enter our profession.  You may write these anonymously if you wish, but the message would be stronger if your name were attached for publication.  We hope to make these available on the new IDEC website now in construction.  Send your stories to Jenni Vincent at jvincent@idec.org

As a regular feature of the IDEC eNEWS, a list of the newest members to IDEC will be provided so you can welcome them to our proud association. There have been 28 new or returning members added to IDEC since the beginning of August.. The newest members include:

Alexandra T. Parman, Art Institute of California-San Diego
Amy Dahm, Texas Christian University
Ann Fry ,Amarillo College
Catherine J. Azcarate, Art Institute of Colorado
Daniel J. Harper, Int'l Academy of Design & Technology
Dawn Day-Quinn, Chatham University
Deeni M. Linton, The George Washington University
Fritz W. Harding, Columbus College of Art & Design
Jaydeepkumar Chaudhari ,Mississippi State University
Jessica J. Ainsworth-Truong, Art Institute International
Jin Gyu Park, University of North Texas
John Martin-Rutherford, PhD, Chatham University
Kara N. Freihoefer, Arizona State University
Maria C. Dugger, La Roche College
Maria Lugosi ,International Academy of Design & Technology
Mary C. Walgren, Milwaukee Area Technical College
Maura S. Schaffer, Purdue University
Meghan Woodcock, Savannah College of Art and Design
Melissa J. McAtee, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
Michelle L. Brune, Southeast Missouri State University
Morris U. Hylton, III, University of Florida
Natalie Cooper, Fanshawe College
Raul D. Amezquita, Int'l Academy of Design & Technology
Robert R. Imboden, American Intercontinental University
Ronn M. Daniel, James Madison University
Sherri Wakefield Mangin, Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online
Susan M. Meggs, East Carolina University
Vija Berzins, New York Institute of Technology

Building Envelope Sustainability Symposium: The Future is in the Balance

In a continuing effort to support research, education and the dissemination of information important to the building industry, the RCI Foundation, in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Institute of Building Sciences, and the National Research Council Canada is issuing a Call for Papers concerning sustainable building envelope design.

The RCI Foundation has issued a call for papers for the 2009 Symposium on Building Envelope Sustainability. Submit your abstract by November 1, 2007 for consideration. The event will be held April 30 - May 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. Read All

AATCC has launched its fourth annual C2C®/CITDA design competition developed by its Concept 2 Consumer® Interest Group and the Computer Integrated Textile Design Association. AATCC continues to expand the competition by inviting submissions from institutions with textile design programs and those with art, interior design, and fashion merchandising programs. The aim of the competition continues to be the promotion of innovative product development.

The theme of this year’s competition is “Earth Day, Every Day,” and the contest has been divided into two main categories: Interior/Outdoor Design and Apparel Design.  Each of these main categories have been broken down further into sub-categories: Fabric Design and Product Design.    

Please encourage your undergraduate and graduate students to enter the competition. They may enter as individuals or teams, to make it easier for you to include the competition as a project in your curriculum. The entry fee is waived for participants who are AATCC student members. Nonmembers pay a $30 entry fee which includes a one-year student membership.

Entries must be received on CD by November 30, 2007. Five finalists in each sub-category will be asked to submit story boards and final products for judging. Winning entries will be awarded $1,000 for First Place and $500 for Second Place, in each sub-category. In addition, the first place winner of the Apparel Design, Product Design sub-category will be invited to London for the Society of Dyers and Colourists’ (SDC) “International Colour and Textile Award” grand awards ceremony in October 2008.  Winners will be announced at AATCC’s C2C Interest Group meeting, held in conjunction with the AATCC Spring Committee Meetings in May of 2008 (finalists are not required to be present for the announcement).

Complete competition guidelines, entry forms, and student membership applications can be accessed at
www.aatcc.org.

If you have questions or need additional information about the competition, contact Suzanne Holmes; e-mail holmes@aatcc.org; telephone 919-549-3537.

If you are interested in forming an AATCC student chapter at your school, see www.aatcc.org or contact Birgit W. Patty, membership services director; email pattyb@aatcc.org; telephone 919-549-3531. Meanwhile, we look forward to receiving your students’ entries in the design competition!

Interior design student Maria Johnson noticed that stray animals in her neighborhood drank out of mud puddles because there was no other available water. Discovering that water dishes left out for animals quickly got choked with leaf debris, she fashioned water bowls with a partial overhang design that kept the water clean for a longer period of time.

Can interior design students use creativity to make daily existence better for human beings, other living things or the earth?  See full Press Release here.

The IDEC Justice Network announces the Make a Difference Project, a small but meaningful initiative to get interior design students involved in giving back to their local communities through design.  Your students can gain national exposure by submitting their Make a Difference projects to the IDEC by November 5th.  Learn more about how to get involved by visiting http://www.idec.org/resource/special.html.