Youth Interior Design Forum
The online Youth Interior Design Forum (YIDF) is a workshop open to high school students of any grade level and gives them the opportunity to experience interior design firsthand.
ONLINE WORKSHOP DATES:
June 2024
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Interior Design Forum workshop blends tradition and innovation in creative learning, covering areas in applied critical thinking and exploration with materials. During the workshop, students explore the fundamentals of 2D and 3D concepts, learn basic drawing and illustration skills, play with color use and light effects, and learn how interior environments affect human behavior. Students design either a restaurant or shoe shop going through the entire design process.
Forum participants explore design process, concept development, graphic communication, lighting design, materials and furniture selections/specifications and perspective drawings and much more. Professors and teaching assistants walk the students through the process from the beginning to the end. Students also have the opportunity to learn from industry veterans representing design firms and organizations while creative industry leaders from around the country host guest lectures and Q+A sessions with students.
Participants in the YIDF benefit from the workshop in numerous ways:
A three credit hours of Program Elective course will be waived, if the student decides to come to BSU for their undergraduate degree.
Through this workshop, students have created a major piece of their portfolio that can be used when applying to interior design program, where portfolio submission is one of the requirements.
Students completing this workshop will perform at a different level during first year of any design program at college level.
With the knowledge gained, less likely they will change their major at the end of first year, if they start interior design at college level.
Workshop Format
The online forum workshops will use Canvas and WebEx or Zoom. Canvas provides a password protected online environment where the students can submit their work and communicate with the professor and fellow students using discussion boards, chat rooms, and centralized email WebEx and Zoom allows us to meet with everyone in the workshop online without leaving the comforts of the home. The online session is limited to 12 students, so apply early to ensure your place in the studio.
To accommodate participants from the Pacific Time Zone, Alaska, and Hawaii we moved our meeting time this year to 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. We meet weeks. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for four weeks. Participants are expected to spend four to five hours every day in average (including meeting times) to complete the project.
The Interior Design Program at Ball State is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) and the National Association of Schools of Arts and Design (NASAD).
ONLINE WORKSHOP DATES:
June 2024
What participants said:
"This workshop allowed me to experience the world of interior design in a quicker form than a regular course. The friendly critiques and the relaxed environment encouraged me to put in the work and be proud of my final project. It solidified my desire to pursue interior design in college."
- Avonlea
“I found this workshop valuable because in a single month I got an inside look on what interior design is, and the process designers go through in transforming a plain room into a gorgeous space that you can’t look away from. From a mission statement to a finish floor plan, you really learn all the steps to complete a project. ”
“This workshop gave me an idea of what the Interior Design curriculum is like. I also learned about things that I never would have known until I get into college. The workshop gave me knowledge to bring into college that my peers won’t have.”
