Biid announces its annual conference - life-changing design: transforming the human experience

Bookings are now open for the BIID Annual Conference 2014. 'Life-Changing Design: Transforming the Human Experience' will tackle the issue of improving interiors through intelligent and creative design with the help of a prestigious line-up of inspirational and influential speakers who will dissect the nature of good design and assess the impact it can have.

"We live in a world, where the vast majority of people realise that design offers enormous power for shaping and changing the human experience," says Sue Timney, President of the BIID. ""Design can be harnessed to solve our problems  and make the world a better place. At this year's conference we'll look at how health centres and hospices, leisure and work spaces, retail and residential interiors can all be improved through intelligent and creative design. As the professional body for interior designers, it's our responsibility to tell this story, and help designers  and their clients realise just what design can achieve."

Confirmed speakers for the 2014 conference include Lee Penson from leading architecture and interior design studio Penson, who will be talking about his practice's involvement in the new Google HQ development; and Charles Jencks, a trustee and Co-founder of Maggie's Centres. Charles will explain how Maggie's Centres have created uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Also confirmed is Edwin Heathcote,  an architect who has written extensively on subjects ranging from church architecture to the meaning of home.

For more information, and to book tickets, click here.