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 [...]

Exhibition opening Thursday, 15 May, 6-8 PM

FILM SCREENING AND TALK Historian Hayden White once noted, “Every discipline [is] constituted by what it forbids its practitioners to do.” In this talk, I adapt White’s statement to argue that disciplines are equally constituted by what they allow practitioners to speak about or how they are allowed to speak. Bathrooms and toilets test the [...]

SCE Dean William Morrish will moderate this lecture

Design and Empowerment Innovative Strategies to Transform Low Income Neighborhoods in Latin America: The Experience of Barrio 31, Buenos Aires by Prof. Arch. Javier Fernández Castro Director “Proyecto Barrio 31″ Instituto de la Espacialidad Humana, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires Prof. Arch. Ariel Claudio Misuraca General Secretary, Facultad de Arquitectura, [...]