Sustainability is Topic of Interior Design Lecture at USU

Penny Bonda is the opening speaker in the Interior Design Program Lecture Series at Utah State University. She speaks Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 a.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public as well as USU faculty, staff and students.

“The Incredible Green Growing Machine” is the title of Bonda’s lecture.

 

Bonda works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer, said Darrin Brooks, a USU interior design faculty member and lecture series coordinator. She is eco-editor of “Interior Design” magazine and a monthly contributor to the magazine’s online resource “The Green Zone.” She is the founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council. She is the current co-chair of the Green Residential Renovation and Interior Remodeling Program.

 

Bonda attended the American University in Washington, D.C., where she earned degrees in education and interior design. A practicing interior designer for 27 years, she has headed her own firm and served as the interior design director for leading design and architectural firms.

 

In 1996, Bonda served as the 21st national president of ASID, a 30,000-member organization that is the oldest and largest professional association of interior designers in the world, representing practitioners in all design specialties.

 

For information on the interior design program at USU or the lecture series, contact Brooks at (435) 797-1559. The Interior Design Program Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

 

 

 

Contact: Darrin Brooks (435) 797-1559, darrin.brooks@usu.edu
Source: USU Interior Design Program