Futurecasting: Harness Trends to Shape Design, Business, and Education
Stay ahead of change - not just react to it.
Continuing Education Approval
- 1 IDCEC CEU | CC-124598 (Your CEU will be reported to IDCEC on your behalf.)
Description
Trends aren’t just forecasts, they’re strategic insights that can shape how we live, work, learn, and heal. This interactive workshop connects big-picture forces to practical design impacts, helping you anticipate what’s next and prepare for it. Learn how emerging global, economic, and social shifts influence design outcomes—and how you can respond with smarter strategies. You'll explore actionable ways to apply trend insights to your projects, business plans, and teaching models. Walk away with tools to stay ahead of change—not react to it. Featuring a deep dive look at the trend of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact in design.
GATHER 2025 live program recording of session held August 19, 2025. This in-person workshop included audience activities and interactions which have been edited out as appropriate. The recording does include a sampling of the discussion coming out of the group activities.
What You Will Learn
- Discuss relevant trends in resiliency, technology, and restoration.
- Analyze each trend’s impact on design, business, and education.
- Solve scenario-based issues by identifying the challenges currently impacting design, business, and education and offering a future resolution.
- Diagram the impact of trends from a system-thinking lens.
Access Period: GATHER 2025 Virtual Conference Package CEUs available to complete through February 28, 2026.
Susan Chung, Ph.D., WELL AP, Allied ASID
Associate Director of Enterprise Research, HKS
Dr. Susan Chung is the Associate Director of Enterprise Research at HKS. Leading enterprise programs for deep-dive research and development at a global architecture and design firm, she strives to enhance the synergies between research and design through communication and outreach. Susan’s experience in comprehensive workplace research studies in living laboratory settings speaks to her passion for translating research into action and advocacy for evidence-based and outcome-driven design practices. She previously worked as the Vice President of Research & Knowledge at the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) leading impactful research to advance the built environment industry. Her scholarly research is focused on creative performance and its relationship with physical and social environmental conditions and received her doctorate in Human Behavior and Design from Cornell University.
Paula McDonald, ASID, NCIDQ, RID-NC, BDCP
Associate Professor of Interior Architecture & Design
Queens University of Charlotte
Paula has over 25 years of experience in architectural and interior design, computer-aided design (CAD), feasibility studies, mixed-use, and commercial renovation, working with various types of clients and projects. She holds a master's degree in interior architecture & design from Queens University of Charlotte, where she currently teaches full time as an associate professor of interior architecture & design, sharing her extensive knowledge and expertise with the next generation of interior designers and architects. She also volunteered for the ASID Impact Review Task Force, contributing to the research and reporting of the impact of interior design on the built environment relative to COVID-19. She is passionate about creating functional, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing spaces that enhance the well-being and productivity of the occupants and stakeholders. More recently she has served as a volunteer for the Council for Interior Design Qualification and is a member of the ASID Trends & Futures Committee.
This CEU is registered with the International Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC) for continuing education credits. This credit will be accepted by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), International Interior Designers Association (IIDA) and Interior Designers of Canada (IDC).
The content included is not deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by IDCEC of any material or construction or any method or manner of handling, using distributing or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods and services should be directed to the instructor and provider of the CEU.
This program is registered for 1 CEU value. The IDCEC class-code is: CC-124598.
Attendees who do not belong to ASID, IIDA or IDC and do not have a unique IDCEC number will be provided with a Certificate of Completion after this CEU.
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