28 Discovery

The initial phase of a design process between the client and designer.

Discovery refers to the initial phase of a design project, during which the interior designer seeks to uncover the needs, connections, attitudes, and opinions that a client or group might have toward a project. The discovery phase collects, organizes, and synthesizes the data needed to begin developing space planning and sketch plans, and uses various methods to elicit knowledge and needs from various users. These can take the form of programming, meetings, and focus group sessions with stakeholders, sketching exercises that help determine scope and adjacency; and the establishment of benchmarks that ...

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