ABSTRACT
In the US as well as in some other countries, the architectural profession has opposed the licensure of interior designers, which raises ethical questions. Some in the profession claim that interior designers, if licensed, will join with engineers to design buildings and render architects irrelevant, which suggests that this issue is more about protecting turf than protecting public safety. The ethics of this arouses questions of power, especially between one male-dominated one over another, female-dominated one, and also questions of the relevance of licensure at all in an economy that needs more paradigm-shifting innovation and in which collaboration has becomes ever more important.
