Parsons product design students presented 15 projects for the collaboration with Poltrona Frau, ranging from cigar cases and drink coasters to picture frames and candle holders. Students were required to address wastelessness and how the potential production of the pieces would enable the least amount of material waste. The jury panel consisted of legendary designer Massimo [...]

Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis Magazine, used her Editor’s Notes (April 2013 issue) to tell about the 2013 Aftertaste Symposium’s focus on our relationship to objects. The symposium, subtitled “The Atmosphere of Objects” explored many ways that everyday things influence the way we live.

Junior Product Design student, Jenny Hsu, recently documented her experience working on a class project in Core 77 Design Magazine.

The GreenSource Magazine of Sustainable Design recently ran an article naming Empowerhouse to be one of the “Best Green Houses”. In 2011, students from Parsons School of Constructed Environments, Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at the New School, and the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey worked on a project called Empowerhouse, a sustainable design for a two-family home.

Ruth Shuman, president and founder of Publicolor, gave a lecture to SCE students last Friday, April 5, 2013.

WantedDesign is hosting a three-day workshop in which Parsons students work with students from other design schools in Pasadena, Paris and Mexico City to develop innovative products that address the growing population’s impact on our water supply in dense, urban areas.

Parsons product design alum, Viktoriya Braginsky was chosen as the winner of the NextGen Competition for her crystal designs entitled “Slice.”

The Living Arts City Colloquium is a two-day event on April 6 and 7 that will bring together artists, performers, curators, arts managers, scholars and students in a series of facilitated workshops and discussions on how to make the arts central to a sustainable future in Cambodia, in the face of rapid growth and urban development.