Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates for participatory planning and design processes in disenfranchised communities. Over a 42-year period, Dr. Sutton has served on …

TOKYO STARTUP, SENSINGNET, INC. REVEALS LATEST AI ADVANCEMENTS AT  ‘THE AGE OF SUPER SENSING 2017’ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED SENSING DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY RSVP: http://sensingnet.co.jp/conference/ click on ‘Register Now’ Featured Experts on Wearable Human-Health Monitoring, Sustainable Biomaterials for Fashion Sensing & Wearable Tech, Regenerative Bio-tech, Robotics and Wireless Power Transfer & Battery-free Communication ……. …

Dr. Arta Yazdanseta will begin her assistant professor role with the School of Constructed Environments in the Spring of 2018. She will be teaching courses in architectural environmental design and technology. Dr. Yazdanseta earned her Doctor of Design (DDes) and Master of Design (MDes) in Energy and Environments from the …

Product Design Alumna’s Create SoaPen To Make Hygiene Fun For Kids. These women created an innovative ‘soap’ pen that encourages kids to wash their hands which consumers hope to see in stores in 2018. Congratulations to Yogita Agrawal, Amanat Anand and Shubham Issar. To read more, please click HERE! and full story in …

BFA Product Design Senior Doyoon Kim was awarded the 3rd place prize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Collab Student Design Competition. Kim’s Design for the “Ouvrir” clothing rack was awarded the prize based on it’s simplicity of concept, sensitivity of material choice, and efficiency of manufacture. To read more, …

‘By practicing a seamless weave of research, team leadership, consulting, prototyping, and interior design, CAMA imagines and creates environments and experiences that empower wellbeing.’ Invited by Part-time professor of interior design, Victor Dadras, to support the elective, “Reimagining Care,”  Rosalyn Cama FASID, EDAC, a distinguished designer in the healthcare field, has convincingly showed …

For the second year in a row, Parsons’ MFA Lighting Design program was well represented at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Annual Conference in August 2017.  Dr. Craig Bernecker, presented a paper, The Influence of Chromaticity on Subjective Impressions in Lighted Environments, based upon research conducted within the Lighting Thesis Studio …

Parsons MFA Lighting Design Program has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy through Pacific Northwest National Laboratories to undertake an evaluation of connected lighting systems through the Next Generation Lighting Systems program.  Seven different connected lighting systems were installed in seven classrooms on the New School campus in Manhattan, …

Craig Bernecker, Ph.D., FIES, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, was presented the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Distinguished Service Award at the IES Annual Conference on August 12, 2017.  The IES Distinguished Service Award is presented in recognition of continuous dedicated service to the Society, “having significantly furthered the purpose for which …

This biannual Convention was created for the global lighting design market. Lighting designers, architects, researchers, universities, industry and clients use PLDC as a platform to meet, learn about the latest developments in lighting design, and discuss the future of the lighting design profession. “Incidents of Lightness” – Glenn Shrum, Director MFA …