The Challenge: Textile company asks Parsons students to reinvent wallcoverings For the original article, see The Architect’s Newspaper Fold, fill, or weave were the marching orders given to students at Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments. The students were armed with Xorel, a woven polyethylene fabric from Carnegie Fabrics that has the textured appearance and malleability [...]

The Design Workshop 2012 is seeking students to volunteer for the summer portion of the Highbridge in_flux project. Students would be aiding the Design Workshop team in constructing the project throughout the Summer semester. Stipends are available. 3 Credits will be rolled into the Fall semester.

Parsons students were invited to participate in the fourth annual Wedgwood competition. Seth Nagelberg and his Ceramic Design 1 course visited the Waterford Wedgwood Showroom to receive the design brief in February. This years theme, “What is old is new” asked students to look back at Wedgwood’s 254 year history and reinterpret a classic design [...]

Isn’t the most fascinating thing about the grid really our fascination with it? The grid can be described in a paragraph and understood at a glance, but that has not kept us from spending the 200 years since 1811 accounting and re-accounting for it. A merely objective investigation would have exhausted this subject long ago, suggesting that when we talk about the grid we’re really talking about almost anything but…

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibition of graduating students’ work includes drawings, models, and prototypes from the architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design programs at Parsons. The exhibition takes place in the studio space created by the Parsons Design Workshop—its signature design-build program—where work desks and adjacent spaces convert to exhibition space.

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Students examine the relatively underexplored realm of designing space with soft structures in a collaborative installation at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) for an exhibit sponsored by Carnegie Fabrics. This project is the culmination of the course taught by Moorhead and Moorhead using Xorel, a Cradle to Cradle [...]

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons celebrates the year with an informal Pecha Kucha-style presentation of the year’s most important work from its graduate, undergraduate, and associate’s programs, as well as special Project Labs such as the Design Workshop and the Empowerhouse Solar Decathlon projects.

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Parsons’ Product Design Flat-Pack Studio, led by faculty member Mark Bechtel, challenged students to design a piece of furniture that would flat-pack to fit within the dimensions of a UPS box or tube. The project includes the design and construction of a full-scale working furniture prototype, the packaging, and an [...]