Their context, remember, is education. So they must be about learning or, better yet, about learning more and better and with greater value. Report cards aren t, and never were, about doing stuff. They re about learning stuff. In the interior design profession, as elsewhere, the biggest problem seems to be that no one ever gets bad grades.
Professional groups see a no-win situation in pointing fingers at their brethren.
The consequence is business as usual. In an era when rapidly changing business practices are characterized by cooperation and mutual support, interior designers remain slaves to contentious systemic structures and methods. But such an evaluation or report card mustn t be about fault-finding or blame. This is about becoming better, more useful designers, and learning how to serve clients needs more appropriately. Becoming truly indispensable and integral to your own business, mission, and life.