ASID Kick-off Meeting re-cap

What's in an ASID membership?

ASID National: $45 annual

• Invitations to exclusive events--free food, product information, networking opportunities!
  
• Access magazine, ASID's online magazine
  
• Major discounts on our favorite magazines like Interior Design, Metropolis, etc (pay as low as $10/year for Interior Design)
  
• Ability to affiliate your name with a professional organization
  
• Job/internship postings, and scholarship competitions just for members
  
• Research summaries on their website (think projects! You'll need it!!)
  
• Neocon Chicago trip in June 2010!!!! Organization funds go to National members first.
  

CCAD ASID membership: $12 annual

• Fundraising participation
  
• Events held at school, and notification of events held in the city by ASID Headquarters
  

What is Neocon? 

Think about your favorite vendor, like Knoll. Think about a large showroom with your favorite products--stuff you only see online or in magazines-- available for you to touch and experience. Add to that free publications, brochures, souvenirs, and reps who love students and who want to answer any and every question you have about the industry. Add students from around the country going through the same thing as you are, sharing advice.  Now multiply that by 1200. Neocon is held at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago every year, and is the largest tradeshow of its kind in North America. This is where we're trying to go as a group next June!! National student members get priority of funds! For more information: www.neocon.com

Positions within the organization that still need filled:

President Elect: Supports and works closely with president in all areas, prepares for and becomes president the following year, focuses on chapter internal and external communications, participates in strategic planning.

Secretary: Keeps records of all meetings and events, works with Headquarters Support Team and student Membership chair (Vicky) to maintain accurate membership rosters, coordinates logistics of meetings and events, participates in strategic planning.

Treasurer: Receives and deposits all chapter funds into bank account, prepares chapter budget and makes financial reports to members during monthly meetings, prepares Neocon progress report for monthly meetings, maintains accurate accounts of chapter events, participates in strategic planning. 

Committees that need more people:

Programming: Plan and schedule speakers, collect business cards for future programs, determine the content and types of events based on the student members’ needs and interests, and the interests of the professional design community.

Membership: Organize membership drive, keep track and assist students with membership renewals. Look for ways to promote national student membership.

Fundraising: Plan events, raffles and sales. Update the calendar of events. Keep track of list of gift card donors and send thank-yous.

Graphics: Make fliers/posters for events, fundraisers and membership drives, promote use of the group blog and forum.

Email SCrenshaw.1@go.ccad.edu if you're interested!!

Social Responsibility and Interior Design

The University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, and PLiNTH & CHiNTZ have invited us to participate in a study they are conducting.

The survey covers the “Triple Bottom Line,” or the idea of balancing the economic, environmental, and social impacts of a project, often used when discussing sustainable design. The focus of this questionnaire is on the “social responsibility” side of this approach, and specifically, how this relates to TEXTILE SELECTION AND SPECIFICATION. For the purposes of this survey, “sustainable design” includes the economic, environmental, and social impacts of a project and addresses the health and well-being of people and ecosystems for current and future generations.

Please take a moment of your time to help out some fellow students and take the survey.

If you'd like to learn more about the Triple Bottom Line, there's a paper from Portland State University linked on the USGBC website. Check it out here.

Without a hitch!

Thank you to everyone who attended the Meet & Greet for the department, I hope you all gained some knowledge of what our student chapter is all about, while becoming aquatinted with the other students and faculty. A reminder about the meeting for those of you who are interested in joining or just hearing more about it--Monday the 31st at 11am will be the student chapter kick-off meeting in our Light Lab. We'll be discussing elections, what committees and chairs are available, deadlines for fees due, and a question and answer session. Hope to see you there!

Mingle with the IN Crowd!

Meet & Greet tomorrow at 6pm thrown by ASID Student Chapter. Meet instructors and fellow interior majors, get advice, information and make friends! Starting out in the Light lab.

Goldmine!

I know a lot of you weren't able to make it to Neocon this year, but here's your chance to access the wealth of information that was available to attendees! Click here to view PDF versions of seminar handouts and papers from some of the speakers. Enjoy!

Design Like You Give a Damn!

"What's the value of innovative design if it isn't shared?" Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1999 to "promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises." They've helped communities in need around the globe; Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Uganda just to name a few. In 2004, they were honored with the ASID Design for Humanity award. What's fascinating is that they are bringing professional design services from architects and designers--about 40,000 of them--willing to give up their time to design sustainable facilities for people who would not otherwise be able to afford them, because they believe "design is the ultimate renewable resource." Design Like You Give a Damn is a book showcasing over 80 contemporary design solutions demonstrating the power behind design that improves lives, and is Architecture for Humanity's theme. The video is a little long, but very touching.