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Felice Silverman, FIIDA

Felice Silverman, FIIDA

Principal

STA Design


Felice Silverman, FIIDA is a Principal at STA Design Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA). She served as President of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) from 2013-2014, and served on IIDA’s International Board of Directors from 2009-2016. Felice has been practicing interior design for the past thirty years, with a focus on the design of interior spaces for innovation, workplace, education, children, hospitality, healthcare, and well-being.


Felice is NCIDQ certified, and was the 2006-2007 President of the IIDA New England Chapter. She served on the Boston Architectural College’s Board of Trustees from 2009-2012 and 2016-2018, as an Overseer from 2012-2016, and was the Chair of the BAC's Interior Design Advisory Board and Student Development Committee. Felice is the Past President of the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC), and has served as a member of the Massachusetts Interior Design Coalition Advisory Council. She has been an educator and guest critic at many colleges, and has served on numerous competition juries nationally and internationally.

 
Felice was the Co-Chair of the Boston Society of Architects Women in Design Award of Excellence for the past nine years, and a member of the Design Museum Foundation’s Center for Workplace Innovation Think Tank.

 
Felice was elected to the IIDA College for Fellows in 2014, and is the recipient of a 2014 Design New England Mentors in Design (Middies) Award.
Ms. Silverman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Harvard University in 1985, and her Master of Interior Design from the Boston Architectural College.

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  • Cultivating Emerging Designers: Education to Practice
    Contains 1 Component(s), Includes Credits

    As the premier developer of quality standards for interior design education at the college/university level, the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) has a vested interest in design students moving on to thriving, impactful, and rewarding careers. As academic learning concludes, how can mentorship and collaboration--even including the larger design community of allied professionals--be used to support emerging professionals and strengthen professional development ? Does it take a village? Simultaneously, as the practice world undergoes tectonic shifts, how might reverse mentorship be used to harness the knowledge and ambitions of a new generation of designers and ultimately advance the profession at large? Our panel consisting of one interior design educator, one small firm practitioner/owner, and one large firm practitioner at the leadership level will engage in a moderated discussion to explore the connections and pathways between education and practice. The dialog will be focused in the context of several macro trends impacting the future of the design profession, including Environmental Sustainability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Advanced Technology. How young designers transition from academia to practice is an especially urgent question in a time when the economic and competitive pressures of practice divert attention from mentorship and post-COVID realities have disconnected individuals and teams from leaders and organizational culture.