IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - 24

CEU: Getting It, Together
The practice of interior design has long been involved with cross-disciplinary collaboration. When working at the lightning-fast pace of the digital age, knowing how and with whom to collaborate—and how to protect your resultant intellectual property—separates the innovators from the imitators.
IIDA Education Department C/O Perspective CEUs 222 Merchandise Mart, Suite 567 Chicago, IL 60654-1103 USA Phone: 312-467-1950 or 888-799-IIDA (toll-free) E-mail: ceu@iida.org Fax: 312-479-0779 Adapted as an exercise by Michael Ancheta, Managing Director of Education Services and Programs, IIDA. Individuals who read this article and complete the series of questions may be eligible to receive continuing education credit (CEU) as approved by IDCEC. Completed exercise should be returned to IIDA at the address above. This course has been approved for one hour of continuing education credit (0.1 CEU). Upon returning a completed exercise to IIDA, registration information will be forwarded to you. If you have any questions, you may contact the IIDA Education Department directly at the number listed above (toll-free). 1. Become aware of the importance of copyrighting and intellectual property within interior design. 2. Understand different methods of protecting your designs. 3. Develop an understanding of how differences in collaboration can strengthen or weaken your ownership of your designs. 4. Learn how open-sourcing policy can result in tremendous accomplishments in a short amount of time. 1. Besides related fields like fashion and furniture design, what other areas has cross-collaboration enabled designers to expand their influence and involvement? List four (4). 2. According to LeAnn Shelton, AIA, general counsel for Rockwell Group, when it comes to copyrights and intellectual properties, what should interior designers be sensitive to when creating original products for spaces? 3. Today, protecting appearance plays a hugely important role in protecting innovation as a whole. How many design patents are Apple and Samsung expected to receive this year? 4. HOK launched HOK Product Design three years ago to solicit concepts from members of its many offices. According to Susan Grossinger, former director of interior design with HOK, Los Angeles, what advantage do large fi rms have as they expand into product design, and why? 5. What are some of the advantages of open-sourcing collaboration like that between University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture Digital FABLab and Carnegie Melon University? 6. According to RPI professor of architecture Anna Dyson, what is a major advantage of forming alliances with large companies when protecting their intellectual property? 7. Based on what you read, how does cross-disciplinary collaboration effect the future of design, and what qualities, and tools will be needed to succeed as an interior designer? Name Firm Full Mailing Address E-Mail Phone IDCEC#
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