Enhancing Contribution of Interior Design to the Sustainability Value Creation for Social Sustainability

Interior architects and interior design project managers have potential in influencing value creation through the indoor environment they create, as the indoor environment plays an important role in sustainable development through its influence on sustainability due to its impacts on humans’ life, health, well-being, economy, and environment. The value creation through interior design can have the potential to affect the value created for supporting human health and social sustainability. Based on an in-depth literature review, this chapter aims to examine the contribution of interior design to create sustainability value for enhancing social sustainability. This chapter provides recommendations on how to enhance the contribution of interior design to increase sustainability value creation for supporting social sustainability. This chapter has focused on the relationship among Industry 5.0 technologies (I5Ts), interior design, and an ethically smart and sustainable indoor environment. This chapter emphasizes the importance of an interdisciplinary and competent interior design team capable of achieving effective and ethical integration of relevant I5Ts to their interior design, its processes and outcomes (e.g., indoor environment), contributing to social sustainability. Furthermore, this chapter highlights the importance of integrated thinking of interdisciplinary aspects (e.g., motivation theories) and interior design to support social sustainability through interior design complying with the motivation theories’ requirements and benefitting from ethically used I5Ts in the interior design and these technologies’ ethical integration to indoor environment created/retrofitted/refurbished to support social sustainability. This chapter is expected to be useful to all stakeholders of interior design and interior design project management for I5Ts integrated, ethically smart, and sustainable indoor environment, enhancing social sustainability, and sustainable development.