{"id":2378,"date":"2025-06-29T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idanng.org\/?page_id=2378"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:41:21","slug":"idan-announces-the-winner-for-the-interior-design-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/idanng.org\/index.php\/idan-announces-the-winner-for-the-interior-design-competition\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President, Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN), Ms. Jacqueline Aki, has advised interior designers in Nigeria willing to advance the profession to embrace emotive design and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stated this during the IDAN celebration of the 2025 World Interiors Day, themed \u201cDesigning with Emotion; Building with Intelligence,\u201d in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her opening remark, she urged interior designers to lean towards three powerful intersections, which are \u201cEmotive design\u2014the ability to create spaces that connect deeply with human emotion. Not just beautiful spaces, but healing, liberating and uplifting spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to her, \u201cDesigners must have lived experience, which is understanding how design is received, inhabited, and remembered. How does a space feel at 8 a.m. versus at 8 p.m.? How it supports joy, inclusion, and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stated that AI is not a replacement for creativity, but a collaborator, aggregato,r and a tool to extend thinking, not override it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe challenge before us is to integrate intelligence\u2014human and machine\u2014with emotional and ethical clarity. To ensure that technology serves human-centred design, not the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday is more than a date on the calendar. It is a global affirmation of the value of our work\u2014 the unseen hands, the thinking minds, the empathetic hearts behind the spaces where people live, heal, gather, and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur theme this year, \u201cDesigning with Emotion; Building with Intelligence,\u201d could not be more timely. It asks us to consider not only what we design, but how and why. It challenges us to create with empathy, to build with insight, and to lead with the awareness that our work has consequences\u2014social, cultural, psychological, and environmental.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/appointments\/idan-underscores-lack-of-skilled-workers-as-setback-for-sectors-growth\/?utm_source=auto-read-also&amp;utm_medium=web\">IDAN underscores lack of skilled workers as setback for sector\u2019s growth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stated that these intersections are not abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the theme, Assistant Secretary General of IDAN, Dr. OmebaEjiogu said: \u201cWe actually adapted this theme to make it feel more relatable to our audience in Nigeria. The idea is simple: design isn\u2019t just about how things look\u2014it\u2019s about how they make people feel and how well they function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, itis so important that our spaces do both\u2014comfort people emotionally and work smartly in today\u2019s world. That\u2019s really what inspired us.\u201d<br>Speaking on the future of the industry in Africa, Ejiogu, stated that Africa is full of stories, materials, and ideas the world needs to see more of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy hope is that we keep building a design identity that\u2019s proudly Afrocentric\u2014authentic, bold, and innovative. I\u2019d also love to see more African designers involved in bigger conversations\u2014urban planning, education, healthcare\u2014because we belong at every table where spaces are being shaped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She called on all designers across the world to keep innovating and advancing their crafts. The keynote speaker at the event, Founder, HTL Africa Limited, Mr. James George, who spoke on designing with emotion, said from the perspective of his firm, \u201cWe see the world, especially as African with a mix pot of emotions that has to be harnessed through design and creativity. We also see the environment in that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur Nexus is the mixture of traditional and technology and therefore, to give technology the human face, we have to add a lot of emotions into designs so part of our duties as architect is to find that spark from culture and from day to day lives that transform ordinary bricks and mortar into something that elevate people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other speakers are the event include CEO, Slick City Media, Malik Afegbua; CEO, Studio Akpan, Emem Akpan, AI Enthusiast, Studio Stone Designs, Abiodun Shonibare and Client Experience Manager, CAP Plc- Dulux Nigeria, Melody Otutuloro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN), Ms. Jacqueline Aki, has advised interior designers in Nigeria willing to advance the profession to embrace emotive design and artificial intelligence (AI). She stated this during the IDAN celebration of the 2025 World Interiors Day, themed \u201cDesigning with Emotion; Building with Intelligence,\u201d in Lagos. In her opening remark, she urged interior designers to lean towards three powerful intersections, which are \u201cEmotive design\u2014the ability to create spaces that connect deeply with human emotion. 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