On Friday, April 1st Interior Architecture & Design students attended Design New England's, 2nd annual Design Showdown at the Boston Design Center . Design Showdown is a competition that schools from the New England area entered. For this years competition, the students were challenged to design both a retail and residential space on Newbury Street in Boston that was socially responsible while also being innovative, functional and inclusive. the two spaces were to be innovative and functional. Three Mount Ida Students got their work accepted into the final round; Junior-Nicole Handzel, 4+1 Master Learner-Nicolette Gordon, and Master Learner-Augusta Hahnel. The evening consisted of the eight finalists live presentations, followed by an after party where the winners were announced.
Road to Design Showdown
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| Lauren LoPresti, Casey Whitney, Stacey Marino, Joe Arcuri, Jessica Shaughnessy, Taylor Porter, Melissa Pastore, McKenzie Meserve, Makayla MacSaveny, and Rose Botti-Salitsky (Interior Design Department Chair) |
Presentations
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| Stacey Marino, Melissa Pastore, Taylor Porter, Casey Whitney, McKenzie Meserve, Jessica Shaughnessy, Joe Arcuri |
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| Nicole, Nicolette, and Augusta |
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Molly Campbell (Publisher of Design New England Magazine), Nicole Handzel, Nicolette Gordon, Augusta Hahnel, and Steven Favreau of Favreau Design
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Awards and After Party
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| Nicolette Gordon and her mother |
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| About to announce the winners! |
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| Grazyna Fadrowska, Stephanie McGoldrick, Nicole Handzel and Rose Botti-Salitsky |
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Nicole's parents with her poster "Trained in the
USA"
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Melissa and Stephanie
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Stacey and Stephanie
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| Jessica Shaughnessy, Jill Janasiewicz (Professor at Mount Ida and ASID Mentor), and Joe Arcuri |
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| Stephanie McGoldrick (Interior Design Professor) and Nicole |
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| Corey Eugster and Nicole Handzel |
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| Rose Botti-Salitsky, Grazyna Fadrowska, and Stephanie McGoldrick |
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| McKenzie Meserve, Casey Whitney, Rose Botti-Salitsky, Stephanie McGoldrick, Melissa Pastore, Nicolette Gordon, Aprilyn Arca, Taylor Porter, Nicole Handzel, Stacey Marino, Augusta Hahnel, Makayla MacSaveny, Jessica Shaughnessy, Jill Janasiewicz, Lauren LoPresti, Joe Arcuri |
Nicolette Gordon Second Place winner!!
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| Nicolette with her mother and Professor Stephanie McGoldrick |
Congratulations to Augusta, Nicole, and Nicolette! We are all so proud of your amazing accomplishments.
Blog Post by Stacey Marino & Grace Herron
Great blog post! It was such a fun night-- you certainly captured our excitement!
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