Real World Design Week
RealWorld DesignWeek-Helping tomorrow’s designers learn from today’s pros.
ASID RealWorld DesignWeek offers job shadowing experiences to expose and enlighten students to the real world of interior design professional practices.
During the week-November 6-12, 2011-ASID student members nationwide will visit the work locations of ASID designers, industry partner reps and educators to shadow for a day.
This program is exclusive to ASID members and is at no cost to registrants. In order to accommodate the many interested student members, ASID needs Professional, Allied, Educator and Industry Partner reps to host shadow days!
The benefits to professionals and chapters are numerous, including:
Designers and industry partners
- Make a positive change in an aspiring designer’s life in just one day
- Help to sustain and advance the interior design profession
- Find a skilled intern or entry level designer to alleviate some of your work load
ASID chapters
- Increase student and emerging professional recruitment and retention rates
- Improve relations between professionals and students in your chapter
- Invest in your students and ensure strong chapter leadership in the future
Register Today!
Please host a student during RealWorld DesignWeek. For information on registration and FAQs, visit www.asid.org/rwdw .
Every year I look forward to meeting the young “shadows” sent my way by ASID’s RWDW. I’m always energized by the students’ optimism, curiosity, and their hopes for a meaningful future in design. I find this new generation of fledgling practitioners eager to have real-world conversations about the state of interior design as well as the larger design world. They are fascinated by their future collaborators form architecture, engineering, product design, way-finding, as well as manufacturing. Though we all take these visits seriously, we have a great time getting to know each other and how we all see the world individually, and together. RWDW is an excellent way to open up the discourse between practitioners of all kinds-including design magazine editors-and those who will shape our future spaces and places. -Susan S. Szenasy, editor in chief, Metropolis Magazine
