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What’s in a letter? Vanessa Brady embraces the acronym and it’s importance in forging design links
We all abbreviate long descriptive titles. Organisations around the world sometimes forget that others don't know what the acronym represents. Canada like most countries has more than one organisation representing interior design.
he Interior Designers Canada (IDC) is a government-funded organisation that represents both designers and architects. In the USA there are several organisations representing interior design; the two largest are International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the Society of American Interior Designers (ASID).
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Vanessa Brady is the Founder of the Society of British Interior Design
When I founded SBID I first created a business model with advisory board member Andrew Rolfe. We registered the charity Society of British Interior Designers (SBID) and later the charity was converted to a not-for-profit business. We took it to the European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA) with our suggestions of improvements for designers in Britain. The ECIA inducted SBID on the spot. I then took the plunge and approached Canada's IDC and USA's IIDA and ASID, inviting them each to collaborate. We agreed and I went to Toronto, Chicago and Washington to finalise agreements. While in Washington I was introduced to the National Council for Interior Design Qualification
(NCIDQ) The NCIDQ measures competence, this differs from training and from that and subsequent meetings we also agreed a partnership. I created an agreement with NCIDQ for SBID to represent them across Europe. We are proud to be partnered to the nineteen countries in Europe that have met the ECIA standard. The Acronym’s is an exchange program to create educational opportunities and professional exposure for Interior Design Students from both sides of the Atlantic. Organised from the SBID offices in London, the program is being supported by leading Universities with interior design courses in USA and Canada. Britain will host the first year of the program, offering seven- day internships in British interior design practices for 2nd and 3rd year undergrad and postgrad students from the USA.
It is a real success story for the interior design industry; it is a natural progression and offers an opportunity to develop into something hugely substantial. This kind of transfer of skills, bringing with it an expansion of cultural and professional boundaries, is becoming essential in design's global work place. It forms a crucial part of well- rounded education in interior-design. Pan Atlantic collaborations such as this one, makes the future for budding interior designers and look much more exciting.
SBID is a standard- bearer organisation of the profession of interior design in Britain and represents members in practice, higher education and industry. The organisation supports the profession locally, nationally and internationally and is part of a global network of 50,000 designers who are professionally
accredited.SBID is the British organisation
selected by the 16 nation members of the European Council of Interior Architects and the NCIDQ in the USA and Canada to represent their professional accreditation standards in Britain.
www.sbid.org
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