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Interior Design Program Vision

Develop globally competent interior design practitioners and scholars who excel in identifying and solving interior environment problems from an evidence-based, human-centered approach by applying knowledge, infusing creativity, and valuing the person and the environment through an interdisciplinary design process.

Interior Design Program Mission

Undergraduate students learn how to be professional interior designers who design in ways that protect people’s health and safety and improve human well-being. The curriculum, participation in related activities, and engagement with design practitioners instill in them the ability to use an evidence-based approach, cross-disciplinary theories, and content knowledge to design holistically, think critically, communicate persuasively, work collaboratively, and act responsibly.

MS/MA and PhD students learn how to pursue interdisciplinary inquiry to explore answers to pressing questions confronting people in interior environments so they can lead and serve in academia, business, and industry.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS IN INTERIOR DESIGN

Bachelor of Science Degree in Interior Design
Graduate Studies in Interior Design MA/MS/Ph.D.

The Interior Design Program integrates teaching, research, and outreach efforts to improve human well being through the design of interior environments. The designed environment influences people’s behavior and well being. Guided by society’s informal and formal regulations, such as cultural norms, laws, and policies, it can support or hinder people’s physical, social, or psychological needs. Interior designers who understand this relationship can create environments that support and improve people’s quality of life in the settings in which they lead their lives.

By identifying and creatively solving problems related to the interior environment, we contribute to the life, health, safety, and welfare of diverse individuals, groups, or communities. Through its goals to produce graduates who design holistically, think critically, and act responsibly, the program prepares students for excellence in professional practice and professional leadership. The program has been CIDA-accredited since 1972.

Graduate Studies in Interior Design:

MA/MS/Ph.D.

These degree programs focus on post-professional graduate study in design and human behavior theory, research methods and application of research findings. Graduate study in Interior Design emphasizes the theory, research, and teaching of interior design as a means to improve the human condition and protect people’s health, safety, and welfare. Interior Design masters students build on their knowledge and experience in interior design education and practice; they learn how to identify and solve design and human behavior problems from a research approach and extend their specialized knowledge for practice or can teach. The Ph.D. degree prepares designers to become the design researchers and teachers of the academy.

All Interior Design graduate students take courses with students from other design and human behavior fields across the University to provide an intellectual foundation for identifying and investigating a topic that is specific to their research focus. Faculty members’ research focuses include the influence of culture on design, sustainability, design education, post-occupancy evaluation, and issues facing the interior design profession. As the home of InformeDesign®, students learn the value of evidence-based design practice, and how to contribute to the profession’s body of knowledge.

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