The importance of interior design professionals’ engagement in policy development to effect change for underprivileged individuals, an essay by Interior Design faculty members Jill Pable and Lisa Waxman, was recently published in Life from the Inside: Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture edited by Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe (2011) Perth: Pencil and Paper.
“This book gives form to the desire to use design for positive change as a counter platform to a consumption driven world. The issues raised by the authors are relevant for individuals, government and non- government organizations, professionals, students and communities. It serves as both an informative and stimulating reflection on what interior architecture is and could be in the twenty-first century.”