Emerging Professional Town Halls
ASID proudly announced a new program targeted towards designers who are getting their start:
The ASID Emerging Professional Town Hall Series
Each town hall strives to bring personal experiences to the floor as industry professionals share advice for new interior designers and discuss topics of interest to this career stage. Enjoy!
Location: Atelier Lapchi Showroom, Chicago, IL.
Featuring: Moderator Kia Weatherspoon, Allied ASID
Panelists: Melissa Day, Pedro Lima, ASID, Addie Marino, Laura McDonald Stewart, ASID, IIDA, RID, LEED AP, and Allison Schapker, LEED AP
Content: View an open floor discussion on using your education and experiences to construct a professional road to success that leans from the conventional. Hear from a panel of interior design and architecture graduates who have benefited from embracing alternative career paths. Whether current market demand influences your future, or you find yourself with varied yet complimentary interests and skills, you may leave inspired to go a similar route. Enjoy refreshments during a cocktail hour as you network with peers and pros!
Location: Atelier Lapchi Showroom, Chicago, IL.
Featuring: Moderator Robert Nieminen, Editor, Interiors & Sources
Panelists: Matthew DeGeeter, ASID, LEED AP, IDEC, Sarah Kastenholz, Allied Member ASID, Ashleigh Lessard, Allied Member ASID, Associate IIDA, Elizabeth Oshana, Allied Member ASID, EDAC
Content: Designed for emerging professionals, this town hall offers a platform for rising designers to present information on global trends and projections for the year 2025 and discuss how design will influence or be affected by this outlook. Additionally, how will ASID need to evolve to support the interiors industry and the professionals that practice within it? Exciting and shocking futuristic concepts were explored, as well as critical thinking encouraged by the next generation of designers that will lead the charge to implement responsible and powerful design solutions in a different world
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Rising Up
Location: Haworth Showroom,
Featuring: Brooke Traeger, ASID, Ashley Fruits, ASID Allied Member, Jennifer Speece, ASID Allied Member, Joshua Brewinski, ASID Allied Member, Matthew DeGeeter, ASID Allied Member, Seth M. Van den Bergh, ASID Allied Member.
Content: A panel of junior designers representing a variety of design practice areas, share their experiences as new designers and rising up out of entry level work.
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Location: Ligne Roset Showroom,
Featuring: Pat Kluetz, ASID, Sari Graven, FASID, Michael Thomas, FASID, Lisa Henry, FASID, Barb Marini, FASID, Rachelle Schoessler-Lynn, FASID, Deborah L. Forrest, FASID
Content: A panel of ASID Fellows to lead an open-floor discussion on building and sustaining your career as a design industry leader.
