The IDEC Innovative Teaching Ideas initiative provides opportunities for educators to find inspiration and integrate new methodologies and content in their teaching. Innovative Teaching Ideas are examples of Interior Design projects, assignments or other planned learning activities, developed and facilitated by an Interior Design educator that advance creativity and effectiveness in teaching and learning in Interior Design. This initiative also offers educators the opportunity to share their teaching ideas in a peer-reviewed process that may be supportive of tenure and promotion.
The Innovative Teaching Ideas Collections are housed in our Resource Library. The first Innovative Teaching Ideas, developed in 1992, have been reformatted and are now available online as part of the Legacy ITI Collection.
Congratulations to the authors selected for the 2020 Collection:
Drawing and Modelmaking—The Design Charrette in the Making
Donna Bigatel, Adjunct Professor, Interior Architecture Department, Chatham University
Using Parti as Play: A Gamified Approach to Strengthening the Parti Diagram and its Implementation in Studio Projects
Jessica Bonness, Assistant Professor, Interior Design, Marymount University
Experiencing Materiality
Rebekah Matheny, Associate Professor, Department of Interior Design, Ohio State University
Material Performance Report
Stephanie Sickler, Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Architecture and Design, Florida State University
Media Arts Centre Design
Jason Shields, Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Design, University of Manitoba
Andrea Sosa Fontaine, Instructor, Department of Interior Design, University of Manitoba
The Mapping Resilience Project
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Professor and Program Director, Interior Design, University of Minnesota
Memory and Felt Experience as a Generative Agent
Tina Patel, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Stacie Burtelson, Adjunct Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Jennifer Roebuck, Adjunct Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Professional Practice Course Case Study
Tina Patel, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Cary Johnson, Visiting Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Post-Representational Mapping
Yu Nong Khew, Assistant Professor, School of Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design
