In addition, industry can help faculty better prepare students for the world of work. Industry partners can bring to the academy valuable student internships with industry partners, advice for curriculum development, and opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research. Key consideration 5 The interior design profession and industry must continually renew their joint commitment to sustainability, environmental sensitivity, universal design, and ethics. Delegate consensus Designers working in the information age must leverage the enormous amount of data available if they are to truly understand the client's concerns and issues and resist the temptation to trade simple information for intimacy. Assumption A major purpose of interior design is to help human beings live and work more productively and comfortably and, in the process, to free them to become more fully human.
Information technology creates many insistent, incessant demands.
At times they must say no. Interior designers are uniquely positioned to help their clients unite or separate home and work, information and knowledge, local and global, and every human being's inner and outer worlds. The interior design profession must reaffirm its commitment to sustainable design, not on behalf of clients' and designers' individual interests alone, but to encourage responsible world citizenship. Interior designers must encourage all efforts toward universal design and honor the intent of those who may not share their aesthetic. The interior design profession and industry need to jointly establish a vision and methodology for putting ethics into practice.