Culture is at the heart of interior design scholarship, education, and practice. The changing American demographics and the global nature of the profession both add to the need to nurture interior design students who are global citizens that can navigate complex political, social, religious, and economic systems in a responsible manner. In positioning this Special Issue on Design+Culture, then JID Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Margaret Portillo, Jennifer Webb from the JID Board, and I set an ambitious goal: chart new directions for Interior Design scholarship and pedagogy. Questions were puzzling to us: when is the “+” relevant and in what manner? What constitutes “new”? How are “directions” to be defined and what role do we envision them to play? To tackle these questions, we stayed focused on the bigger vision to foster synergies among design educators and other allied scholars who are eager to rethink the field’s relationship to culture and contributions to interdisciplinary discourse.

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设计+文化：为室内设计奖学金和教学法开辟新方向

文化是室内设计学术、教育和实践的核心。不断变化的美国人口结构和该行业的全球性质都增加了培养室内设计专业学生的需求，他们是能够以负责任的方式驾驭复杂的政治、社会、宗教和经济体系的全球公民。为了将本期特刊定位在设计+文化上，JID 主编 Margaret Portillo 博士、JID 董事会的 Jennifer Webb 和我设定了一个雄心勃勃的目标：为室内设计奖学金和教学法制定新的方向。问题让我们感到困惑：“+”何时相关以及以何种方式相关？什么是“新”？如何定义“方向”以及我们设想它们扮演什么角色？为了解决这些问题，