IFI

First held in 1963, the XXIVth IFI General Assembly is a two day international meeting of the members of IFI, that will take place on November 9th & 10th in Dubai, UAE.

The meeting is open to the delegates of all IFI Members and will be hosted by the Association of Professional Interior Designers (APID) in the United Arab Emirates. Agenda items include reports, programs and initiatives, projects, business administration and is the forum for the election of the new Executive Board of IFI for the 2009 – 2011 term. The General Assembly is followed by the IFI Congress which will be held on November 10th & 11th.

The History of IFI General Assembly

YEAR	VENUE	THEME
1963	Copenhagen, Denmark	Founding Assembly
1965	Berlin, Germany	The Training of Interior Architects / Interior Designers
1967	Amsterdam,The Netherlands	The Milieu and Design
1969	Paris, France	What is the Place of the Interior Architect Interior Designer in the Society of the Future?
1972	Zurich, Switzerland	Participation in the Housing Concept
1974	Stockholm, Sweden	PART 74 - Participation in the Living and Working Environment
1976	London, U.K.	Design for Leisure
1978	Washington, U.S.A.	Designing for and with Governments
1980	Vienna	Austria Living Interior
1981	Helsinki, Finland	DESIGN ‘81: Design Integration
1983	Hamburg, Germany	Working - Living, two different worlds?
1985	Paris, France	Professional Recognition
1987	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Design Response
1989	Bergen, Norway	Space
1991	Chicago, U.S.A.	City 2000 - A Living Laboratory of Modern Urban Design
1993	Glasgow, Scotland	Design Renaissance
1995	Nagoya, Japan	Interiors: Next Wave
1997	Killarney, Ireland	A Sense of Place
1999	Sydney, Australia	Viewpoints in Time
2001	Johannesburg, South Africa	Continental Shift 2001
2003	Mumbai, India	Design SUTRA
2005	Sweden, Denmark, Norway	ERA05“the changing role and challenges of design“
2007	BUSAN, KOREA	Jeong_beyond reason and sensibility