Teaching interior design can be both exciting and challenging. To keep students engaged while helping them build skills in creativity, critical thinking, and design principles, it helps to have the right tools. The Interior Design Challenge Kit brings learning to life with interactive activities and real-world scenarios.
Hands-On Drafting Tools
This kit makes teaching interior design more interactive with included whiteboards, drafting workbooks, and drawing template sets. The whiteboards and workbooks feature both standard grids and 3D gridded spaces, giving students opportunities to practice layout, perspective, and design fundamentals.
Creative Challenge Cards
To engage students in scenario-based learning and address soft skills in addition to teaching interior design, the kit comes with 20 challenges in a set of cards. You can use the cards for design challenge days, small group activities, or five-minute icebreakers. The cards ask students to design spaces for individuals with various mobility and sensory challenges, such as visual impairments, clients in wheelchairs, and Down syndrome.
See a sample of the cards here.
Inclusive Simulations
Designing inclusive spaces requires understanding diverse experiences. That’s why the kit includes four physical disability simulation tools that let students experience mobility, hearing, and visual challenges firsthand. These simulations support meaningful discussions and more thoughtful, inclusive design work.
Ready-to-Teach Curriculum
To make teaching interior design more efficient, the kit comes with a downloadable, 10-lesson curriculum. Topics include equitable use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, and more. The full curriculum takes around 15 hours to teach, but each lesson can also stand alone for flexible planning.
See the complete curriculum overview here.
Additional Resources
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