How does professionalism impact design education?

The definition of professionalism is “the competence or skill expected of a professional”

A professional is when they studied and dedicated their life to designing. When I was faced with issues as a student I always remember what my professors said on how to handle the situation and to create multiple design and there is bound to be the best solution for the first step. That is an impact real professional leave in the education system they leave a piece of their knowledge and continue teaching student on how to become a professional designer. A professional teaches the minds of future designer and they must remember at all times what they say will stay with the student and guide them when they are on their own. When the design education was brought to light many judged the program and stated interior designers was just another word for interior decorators student s wanted to rebel but a professional designer helps the students deal with those types of critiques and use it to be more passionate about their career. When a student is being taught the design it should be expect most of the design students to have minimum or no experience in the program. The design education support future designers on teaching them from learning designing vocabulary to entering the mind of the client and seeing the space they want. Designing education has similar teaching method as high school they give you examples and start you off with the basics but you are constantly reminded of those basics throughout your education and soon you will know it like any other knowledge you’ve obtained over time. Soon professors let you control your own teaching methods and that shows student what kind of designer they are and see that becoming a designer will become as easy as breathing to them. Ready to be set into the real world bringing what their education taught them ready to influence other designers  and being seen as a professional interior designer.  

Interior Design = Interior Decorating WRONG!!!

If interior design can be compared to interior decorating then I can compare a pilot to a surgeon or a pineapple to a strawberry. Personally it never crossed to camper those examples the only way I can group the pineapple and strawberry is through them both being fruit and delicious.  As an interior design student it mentally destroys me when I tell my friends or family what I’m studying to be the two responses I get are “OH, I didn’t know you have to attend school to pick color swatches?’ and “That’s amazing , over the weekend you can help me arrange my furniture and buy new table cloth” Finally I decide to see how interior design is define online, “the art or process of designing the interior decorations of a room or building” (“Google Dictionary,”) that is how the internet sees interior design. The only part these two careers have in common is working on an interior space, for example the fruits I mentioned are sometime a great combination the same goes for interior design and decorating. When working on a project a designer is more like an interior architect creating a better space to enhance the quality of the client when a decorator picks up where design leaves to make a space more comfortable and homey. Another way to look at these careers is as imagining a building is a human body, an architect creates the skeleton then an interior designer creates the functioning guts or organs the final person to step in is a decorator the color of the organs and the arrangement to make the body function even better.