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BFA Interior Design Faculty Member Recognized as IDEC Award Winner

    BFA ID Faculty Sam Bennett has been recognized by the Interior Design Educators Council as a 2022 “Best Of” Award Recipient. Bennett was awarded Scholarship of Design Research for her work “Slow Interiors Manifesto: A Renewed Framing of Interiors.”   Learn more about IDEC Awards Here.


SCE Online Public Program: Black Neighborhoods Matter

SCE Public Programs Presents “Black Neighborhoods Matter” in partnership with AIANYC. This event was held on: May 4, 2022 7:30PM to 9:00PM Access the recording Here. The “Decolonizing Suburbia” installation, now on view at the Center for Architecture, explores the architectural typologies that can result in a new, more accessible commons in …


MFA Lighting Design Faculty Glenn Shrum discusses Lighting Education on “Get A Grip” Podcast

Associate Professor of Lighting Design Glenn Shrum discussed how to obtain credentials as a lighting designer on Episode 252 of “Get a Grip on Lighting” Podcast.     “How do you gain credentials as a lighting designer? You go and learn under Henrik or Glenn. Our host and his guest talk …


SCE Public Program: Crossing Disciplines with Computational Tools and Methodologies

SCE Public Programs Presents Assistant Director of Product Design Mark Bechtel in Conversation with Arturo Tedeschi   Arturo Tedeschi is a computational design specialist with more than ten years of experience in the avant-garde segment of architecture and industrial design.  He coined the definition Algorithms-Aided Design (ADD) with his homonymous book published in …


A Decarbonized & Decolonized Dinner Party: SCE & School of Fashion Earth Day Exhibition

Friday, April 22, 2022, 6:00PM to 9:00PM (EDT) A Decarbonized & Decolonized Dinner Party Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 2 W 13th Street, 4th Floor Please join us for a carbon free “Dinner Party” on April 22nd, Earth Day. This interdisciplinary exhibition and performative event asks big questions on socially just approaches to the future of eating …


SCE MArch Faculty David Leven Hosts Book Talk for New Publication

SCE Associate Professor of Architecture David Leven (Partner, LEVENBETTS) with Stella Betts (Partner, LEVENBETTS) and co-author Thomas de Monchaux host a Book Talk & Signing for their new book, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House. Thursday April 14, 6-8pm 25 E 13th St, E206 (Glass Corner) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House is a …


MFA ID Professor Co-organizes Conference with NSSR

MFA ID Faculty Member Eva Perez de Vega is co-organizing a conference with the New School Social Research, featuring presenters from the MFA ID Program. Find out more Here.   Conference: WITH/IN ENVIRONMENTS REIMAGINING FRAMEWORKS AND PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY Description of overall conference: Since Plato, western philosophy has been …


SCE Public Program: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore

SCE Public Programs Presents: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore Thursday, April 7 7-8pm EST Zoom Link   Hosted By: Yu Nong Khew, Dir. BFA ID Program; Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects and Technology Cotter Christian, Assoc. Dean SCE; Assistant Prof. of Interior Design What does it mean to design …


SCE Public Program: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting

SCE Public Programs Presents: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting Tuesday March 29, 2022 12-1:30pm EST Access a recording of the event Here. Hosted by: Glenn Shrum, IALD, Associate Professor of Lighting Design and Interdisciplinary Practice, Parsons School of Design / Founding Principal, Flux Studio Nearly 5% of current global CO2 emissions are …


SCE Students and Faculty featured at IDEC Annual Conference 2022

2022 Virtual Annual Conference Reconnect + Recalibrate March 1-4   This year’s conference is an opportunity for interior design educators, students and stakeholders to reconnect, share scholarship, learn about new teaching practices, forge industry partnerships, and explore opportunities for collaboration. The 2022 conference seeks to foreground our individual and collective …