2018 Southwest Regional Conference
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© 2024 Interior Design Educators Council
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Little Rock, AR
Welcome to the 2018 IDEC SW Regional Conference. We have packed the conference into two full days. We hope that you will support each of the presenters by attending the full conference and networking with those who attend. Please let us know if you have any question.
October 25-26, 2018
Location
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
401 President Clinton Ave,
Little Rock, AR 72201
Registration Deadline : Passed
Registration Deadline: October 19
Conference Schedule
Day 1
Thursday October 25, 2018
9:00 AM
Check- In
9:30-9:45 am
Welcome by Kristi Gaines
9:45-10:15 am
Presentation #1: Needle in a Haystack: The Search for Web-based Video Resources for An Interior Design Course
Presented by: Amy Roehl
10:15-10:45 am
Presentation #2: Modeling Serendipity in the Design Studio: A Description of ‘Space Scrabble’ and Other Innovative Teaching Strategies.
Presented by: Matthew Higgins
10:45-11:15 am
Posters and Break –
SnacksPoster #1 – Diffusion of innovation among older adults: A framework of gerontechnology acceptance for aging-in-place
Presented by: Gabriela Pereira, Mihyun Kang
Poster #2 – STAYING POWER: Millennial Travel Behavior, Instagram use, and Sustainable Hotel Design
Presented by: Erin Colwell
Poster #3 Wayfinding Considerations for People with Colorblindness
Presented by: Mahnaz Ensafi
Poster #4 An Environmental Design to Improve Children’s Wellbeing by Providing them Personal Space
Presented by: Saman Jamshidi & Seyedehnastaran Hashemi
Poster #5 A Sustainable approach for designing long-term facilities: Improving the quality of life among elderly
Presented by: Sahand Abbasi & Fares Alsaygh
11:15 am
Lunch on your own
12:30 pm
Meet at Clinton Presidential Library
1:45 pm
Return to Butler Center
2:00-2:30 pm
Presentation #3 – Design Thinking: A Longitudinal Evaluation Of Work Dispositions And Whole Person Development In Generation Y Design Interns
Presented by: Sally Ann Swearingen, Mitzi Perritt, Leisha Bridwell, & Ray Darville
2:30-3:00 pm
Presentation #4 – Workplace Exposures to Health Risk Factors in the United States: Race, gender, and occupation based disparities
Presented by: Suchismita Bhattacharjee & Jagdish Khubchandani
3:00-3:30 pm
Presentation #5-From Process to Practice
Presented by: Marla Emory & Tom Futrell
3:30-4:00 pm
Break and Poster Presentations – Snacks
Poster #6 – A Natural Outdoor Environment for Children to Improve their Educational, Psychological, and Physiological State
Presented by: Seyedehnastaran Hashemi
Poster #7 – A Framework to Implement Biophillic Design in Millennial Workspaces
Presented by: Dalal Alaqeel & Suchismita Bhattacharjee
Poster #8 Improving physical activities for visual impaired people by design
Presented by: Homa Pesarakli
Poster #9 Interactive spaces: Improving customers’ satisfaction by interaction design in restaurant
Presented by: Elnaz Nahirafee
4:00-4:30 pm
Presentation #6-Medical-Surgical Patient Room: An Evidence-Based Design Approach to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Pain Among Inpatients Through Physical Environment
Presented by: Saman Jamshidi & Jan Parker
4:30-5:00 pm
Presentation #7-Rethinking the Design of Primary Care to Encourage Participation in Preventative Care
Presented by: Melinda Anderson-Guerrero & Debajyoti Pati
5:00- 5:30 p.m.
Presentation #8-Looking Back and Looking Forward: Designing with Memory and Place
Presented by: Michael Chisamore
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Tour of Cromwell in the New East End Development
Reception at the Mixing Room and tour of Paint Factory building by Cromwell Architects.
Day 2
Friday, October 26, 2018
9:00 AM
Check- In
9:15 am
Housekeeping & Welcome Back: Kristi & Sarah
9:30-10:00 am
Presentation #9-Engaging Regional Architectural History Through Interior Design And Color: A Case Study of Creative Collaboration for an Architect’s Retrospective Exhibit
Presented by: Nadya Kozinets
10:00-10:30 am
Presentation #10-Default: The Role of Traditions, Standards, and Legislation
Presented by: Jennifer Webb
10:30-11:00 am
Break
11:00-11:30 am
Presentation #11-Design Preparation for the Emergence of Nature Schools
Presented by: Melinda Anderson-Guerrero & Kristi Gaines
11:30am-12:00pm
Presentation #12-Collaboration, Empathy, and Narrative Process
Presented by: Jennifer Barker, Jenna Thompson & Pam Hurley
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch and Speaker
Big Little Design: Design thinking & how we think about design
Presented by: Toni Gocke Wyre
1:00-2:00 pm
Creative Scholarship Presentations
Creative #1 The Agency Project
Presented by: Alex Goldberg
Creative #2 Office Animal: Exploring the Untapped Market of Furniture Design for a Pet Friendly Office Environment
Presented by: Amy Jacobson-Peters
Creative #3 A Human Centered Design Project: A multi-cultural and cross discipline design thinking exercise.
Presented by: Amy Cox
Creative #4 A Modern Approach to the Spanish Courtyard Home
Presented by: Kristi Gaines
Creative #5 Recycled Outdoor Furniture Prototypes and the Impact of Design for the Environment (DfE)
Presented by: LaPorchia Davis, Jasper Johnson
2:00-2:30 pm
Presentation #13-Experiential Learning Theory application for creating user-centric learning through screen/pattern interventions in an immersive studio project
Presented by: Natalie Ellis, Mia Kile & Aron Tempkin
2:30-3:00 pm
Presentation #14-From Parking Lot to Play Surface: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Graphics Service Learning Project
Presented by: Amy Roehl, David Elizalde & Albert Marichal
3:00-3:30 pm
Presentation #15-An Exploratory Study Comparing Multidisciplinary Group Dynamics between a Hackathon and a Design Charrette.
Presented by: Alana Pulay
3:30-3:45 pm
Voting on Presentation/Break
3:45-4:15 pm
Business meeting – Kristi Gaines
4:15-5:00 pm
Wrap up and Awards – Kristi Gaines
Hotel
Residence Inn by Marriott
219 River Market Ave.,
Little Rock, AR
Call Hotel Directly: 501-376-7200
Group Name: IDEC- Interior Design Educator Council
Rate: $117/ night and $10 for parking per day
Deadline: September 24, 2018
