Exploration Name: KID (Khmer Interior Design)
Blue: Business
Red : Designer Design
Student Proposal Writers: Thiny, Soliday, Niron, Makara,Menghuoth and Davith
Number of Students you want in your Final Exploration: 6
Topic: Interior Design
Subject Area: Art
Summarize the goals of your exploration.
In this Exploration, we learn the interior design and share it to Cambodian. We notice that most of the interior designers are foreigners, not a lot are Cambodians. There are a lot of new buildings that are developing now and that’s the sign of needing more interior designers. We want to encourage Cambodian to be interior designers because we want Cambodian to have work to do.
What do you hope to do and learn?
Some of the big activities that we want to do are working with expert to learn about interior design from Iching. Also we want to accomplish designing room with some innovative stuff in there.
Some of the topics that we want to learn more about are interior designs and Innovations because these two topics are connected to each other. The way they’re connected is we we need some innovative staff to design a room or hotel or office.
We will have two teams, one is design team which in charge of designing and another is business which in charge of knowing how much the material cost and contact the place that we will go.
What are some BIG questions that your exploration would answer?
How does interior design effect to Cambodia economics?
Will Cambodian people interested in interior design? What are something that might interesting to them?
What are some interior design that Cambodian people might like the most?
How would your exploration help to change Cambodia?
Get people thinking about change? How?
We are getting people to think about change by encourage them to be interior designer and tell them that there are not a lot of interior designers that are Cambodian.
Modeling change to others? How?
Advertising change? How?Making a change? How?
What resources do you need to complete this exploration?
human – support from teachers, experts, facilitators, etc.
Iching (Benita)
technology – computers, video cameras, cameras
knowledge – do you need to have a skill that you don’t know how to do yet?
example: how to edit audio; how to make a lesson plan; how to use a software program; how to make professional phone calls; how to network with local businesses
Interior designing
Price of material
physical – paper, paint, fabric, poster board, wood, etc.
room to design, stuff to make sofa and table, paint
Website – We want to share about interior design job through blog.
Are you planning any off-campus trips?
If yes, why? What is the benefit to your exploration/learning?
How long will it be?
Yes, we would like to go to Iching to learn how to design and working with the staff there. .
We also want to go other hotel or guesthouse to see their design, we plan to go to Plantation.
Do you have a mentor/expert who could help you?
Iching Member, especially Benita