WID 2021: DESIGN AS A GLOBAL

WORLD INTERIOR DAY 2021: DESIGN AS A GLOBAL CONVERSATION

Despite Malaysia's movement control order (MCO), we still upholding on the World Interior Day event. This year, we have held it online through ZOOM, with inclusive content of live sketch and rendering by Dr Mohamed Nizam, a senior lecturer in Interior Design and a talk by one of MIID council member, Assoc Prof IDr Mohammad Zani Mohammad Zain with a broad range of expertise.

Dr Mohamed Nizam who had a talk about live sketches and rendering.

The session has been divided into two parts, first part is the talk conducted by Dr Mohamed Nizam about live sketch and rendering. During the sharing session, he has mentioned about the lack of hand sketching during concept and development stage for design students. Therefore, he had shared to us how to produce a hand sketch of one-point and two-point perspective, and the skills to make an idea sheets to be more interacting and attractive. As an example, he also explained to us what are the different of one and two point perspectives. Such as, adding in figure to present our ideas better in term of user experience.

Example of live sketches which had been shown by Dr Mohamed Nizam.

Other than that, he also shared with us some applications to go for digital sketching during this pandemic period whereby all the students are now having online classes. Application such as Procreate and Sketchbook, allow students to play with line thickness, materials, human figures, also practice sketching skills by tracing on an existing image.

Example which had been shown by Dr Mohamed Nizam.

Assoc Prof IDr Mohammad Zani Mohammad Zain who is MIID council member.

Meanwhile, the second part of the session is conducted by MIID council member, Assoc Prof IDr Mohammad Zani Mohammad Zain. As an experienced interior designer, Mr. Zani has shared with us the roles and responsibilities as a designer, the job scope we will meet in the future, giving the students opportunity to have knowledge and understanding on the industry situations. Other than design, he also mentioned we should look into how to benefits community's lifestyle especially in new social norm or lifestyle, designers have to rethink traditional workflows to aid the community to stay connected in view of self-imposed and mandated social distancing.

To let students have better understanding, he also showed some examples of new norm space design – such as introducing natural light into the space, create personal space in public area which meet the needs of human and comfortable to use (besides aesthetic). In addition, he also stated nowadays interior designer shall emphasize on engagement, inclusive and collaboration elements when designing a space or project.

Mr. Zani also shared how to register for MIID membership.

Last but not least, during the end of the sharing session, Mr. Zani also shared generously with us regarding the roles of MIID, and the ways to register for MIID membership & route to become a registered professional interior designer.

Gladfully every student is willing to join the session, and not hesitate to ask questions during the talk. Once again, thank you to Dr Mohamed Nizam and Assoc Prof IDr Mohammad Zani Mohammad Zain for accepting our invitation and have a great sharing session will FCUC IAD students!

Last but not least, we have organized a sketching competition for students to allow them apply the knowledge and techniques onto their sketch, lets have a look on their sketches!