External Partnerships



Homasote, Moorhead & Moorhead and SCE Students Collaborate for WantedDesign 2013

Students in the temporary environments class, taught by notable design firm Moorhead & moorhead, explored recycled paperboard supplied by The Homasote Company for an installation at WantedDesign 2013.


Product Design Student Work is Featured in Core 77 Design Magazine

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


Publicolor Lunchtime Lecture with Ruth Shuman

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


School of Constructed Environments Faculty Create Architectural Fairy Tales

Last December, the Design Observer blog featured a series of architectural fairy tales designed by Parsons SCE faculty members Andrew Bernheimer, Jing Liu, Emily Abruzzo, and Gerald Bodziak.


SCE’s Andy Bernheimer Juries Little Free Libraries Competition

Andy Bernheimer of the School of Constructed environments will be jurying the Little Free Libraries/New York Project. This competition will award ten design teams with $1000 to design and create small-scale libraries to house books. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 4, 2013.


MFA Lighting Design Program Supports PLDC 2013

Parsons The New School for Design and the MFA Lighting Design program is proud to support the Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC 2013, as a Partner University.


Fall 2012 Allied Studio works with Harlem School for the Arts

The Allied Studio, a cross-disciplinary design studio that mixes graduate students from Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting Design, every fall term identifies an actual client and site within New York City for students to analyze and propose new design interventions. This year the class worked with the Harlem School of the Arts; a rich cultural center and significant community anchor that offers classes in dance, theater, visual arts and music for students ranging in age from toddlers to early adulthood.


Arch Schools 2012 Exhibition Reception and Deans’ Roundtable

The Center for Architecture’s eighth annual architecture schools exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 14 New York area schools.


Splash House Open House, Thursday, 20 Sept | 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Splash House construction is complete! Please join us at the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center (2301 Amsterdam Ave) and see the end result of the many months of hard work and collaboration between Parsons SCE, the community of Washington Heights, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and our many wonderful volunteers.


“Community Involvement” by M.Arch student Amy Obonaga featured in Metropolis

We spent a semester designing—and redesigning—our project for the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Now we’re ready to build it.