{"id":20615,"date":"2025-05-14T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/interior\/?page_id=20615"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:41:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/interior\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-e730dd8b alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-ast-global-color-5-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fa21d57278b30388b61d727c9cc3142c\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">About<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-3249a1fe alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p>The Department of Interior Design at the University of Florida is an internationally recognized program&nbsp;committed to evidence-based design that emphasizes the role of human-centered research to guide the design process. This process centers around the human&nbsp;occupants and how design can optimize the interior to meet human needs through healthy, safe, functional, sustainable, and culturally sensitive designs.&nbsp;Our interdisciplinary foundational design studios offer the knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to excel in many design fields. The studio environment, mentored by professional and NCIDQ certified faculty, allows for individual and team project-based learning that combines design thinking, intensive research, design development, creativity and technical skills which sets up our graduates to become leaders in the field.&nbsp;Our Program has been accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA, formerly FIDER) since 1974 and has continuously placed graduates in top positions in the field.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-d0eee24f alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-669b35f7\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons uagb-buttons__outer-wrap uagb-btn__default-btn uagb-btn-tablet__default-btn uagb-btn-mobile__default-btn uagb-block-2aac482b\"><div class=\"uagb-buttons__wrap uagb-buttons-layout-wrap \">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons-child 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