The bandwidth revolution has given interior designers an entirely new set of tools—not just for design, but also for collaboration. As is true for most innovations, their early applications were focused on existing practices. Today, though, a new generation of designers is at work who grew up with these tools. As they move into the mainstream of practice, they will start to use them to reshape practice.
Bandwidth is transforming the production process: how furniture, furnishings, and equipment get from designer to manufacturer to end-user. It makes it possible both to speed the production process, by tying it more directly to purchasing, and to consolidate orders to secure larger production runs and better prices. And it creates a world market for these products that should increase their variety.
Bandwidth will also make it steadily easier for virtual teams to work collaboratively, to “construct” a virtual setting in three dimensions. This collaboration takes place not just between people, but between computers, too, so that in time fabrication will follow design without the need for detailed working drawings. As the process becomes more seamless (and more common), it will extend to other aspects of construction. At some point, “design/build” may really be a singleprocess. Currently, we are only halfway there. Alot of the infrastructure is in place, but the interface is still maddeningly primitive.
Hello I’m a student at FIDM and hoping you can point me in the right direction. I’m actually studying interier design and looking for work. Most jobs offered from my school are only for fashion design. I have no clue where to look for interier design work. Every thing I find is construction based and not what I’m into. Please help. Thanks.
Spectacular work! Those guys at your competition (I don’t need to say who) don’t even have a clue! Keep up the good work! Much Thanks!