With a global reach IIDA works to support design professionals, industry affiliates, educators, students, firms, and their clients through our network of members across 58 countries. Programming and premiere events are a core component of the association’s commitment to facilitating, celebrating, and growing our global community of design industry members. Through these programs and events, we work to provide platforms for creating change and tackling important issues related to equity, justice, sustainability and climate change. We know that design and its broader community are key for forward movement, and that design is by its very nature future facing and optimistic.
Certified Design Futurist
IIDA’s Certified Design Futurist program is built on the methods of noted quantitative futurist Amy Webb, Founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute (FTI), who was commissioned by IIDA to create a brand-new curriculum, specifically for designers and the design industry. You could be among the first to become a Certified Design Futurist! Learn more
Collective Design
Collective Design is a webinar series from IIDA that provides resources, information, and inspiration to the design community. These virtual sessions explore design from the lens of its larger societal impact as well as examining influencing factors and industries, offering dynamic conversations about design. Learn more
Leaders Breakfast
The IIDA Leaders Breakfast series is the leading industry community building event—honoring and showcasing leading designers that have impacted the work of design and creating a forum to participate in essential conversations and network with peers. Learn more
Design Your World
Launched in 2021, Design Your World is an education pipeline program driven by the core goal to build diversity and equity within the design industry through providing hands-on-design learning for high school students through a summer program. Learn more
Converge 360: Sustainability
The hub for all things sustainability including the IIDA + Interface Converge Action Summit, the IIDA Converge Sustainability Council, IIDA Ecomedes portal, and the IIDA Sustainability Toolbox with emerging design leaders and subject matter experts from across the design industry. Learn more
IIDA at NeoCon
At NeoCon in Chicago, IIDA brings together the innovators, the community organizers, the design visionaries—collectively we envision and create the future of design, equity, sustainability, education, healthcare, hospitality, and work for programming, networking, learning, and much more. Learn more
Tarkett + IIDA P.A.T.H.
Inspired by our shared beliefs that every student with a passion for interior design or architecture, regardless of their background, should have access to opportunities that enable them to thrive and shape the future of our industry. The initiative will provide one HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) with free membership through the end of 2025. Learn more
Student Mentoring Program
Our Student Mentoring Program leads the way in providing experience, resources, and opportunities for an inspiring emerging design community. Annually we pair more than 500 students with design professionals to build knowledge and relationships. Learn more
Industry Roundtable
IIDA’s Industry Roundtable is an annual gathering of diverse thought-leaders and decision makers across firms, manufacturers, and academia for a weekend of discussions and explorations of our industry—where we are, and where we are headed. Learn more
REVEL in Design
Join IIDA at the annual kick-off to NeoCon in Chicago for an evening of mixing and mingling—dinner, dancing, and celebrating the winners of two prestigious design competitions. Learn more