Interdisciplinary Collaborations



Design Workshop 2012 Kickstarter campaign: Highbridge in_flux

Please donate and be a part of our efforts to build in_flux. All donations are tax-deductible and 96% will go towards purchasing the materials to build this project! You may also decline to receive benefits and will thus see that 100% of your contribution goes to the construction of in_flux.


Design Milk profiles SCE, “The Tools That Make It Happen: Parsons School of Constructed Environments”

Recently Design Milk visited the School of Constructed Environments to review the way in which our students collaborate and integrate designs across disciplines as well as explore tools for making. Take a look at the article for more detailed insight into the values of SCE offered through an interview with …


The Architect’s Newspaper reports on SCE Temporary Environments studio

Students from 5 programs participate in Moorhead & Moorhead’s course to create a soft structure from Carnegie’s Xorel


Design Workshop Summer 2012 – Volunteers needed!

The Design Workshop 2012 is seeking students to volunteer for the summer portion of the Highbridge in_flux project. Students would be aiding the Design Workshop team in constructing the project throughout the Summer semester. Stipends are available. 3 Credits will be rolled into the Fall semester.


SCE at ICFF: Temporary Environments Studio and Carnegie Fabrics, opening 22 May

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 …


X is for An Expert on Bathrooms: Alexander Kira & Peter Greenaway’s 26 Bathrooms. INSIDE (hi)STORIES film screening and talk 27 April, 6:15pm

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. …


Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Awards & Fellow Presentations Thursday March 1st

NICHOLAS DE MONCHAUX / ANGELO VERMEULEN : DESIGN & ART INTERSECTIONS – NATURE & TECHNOLOGY


MFA Lighting Design students design lighting for Where Do We Migrate To? Exhibition

As part of the Sheila Johnson Design Center public programming, lighting design students conduct a light “focusing” exercise to assure the gallery lighting supports the aesthetic and curatorial interests of the exhibition.  As well, this offers students tangible hands on experience dealing with luminaires, light sources and optics.  This particular …


Lionel Ohayon appointed visiting practitioner faculty in MFA Interior Design – Spring 2012

Founder and President of ICRAVE, an inventive multidisciplinary Manhattan based design firm, plans to engage students in designing Experiences


Moorhead & Moorhead Bring their material curiosity to SCE/Parsons

In partnership with Carnigie fabrics students in Moorhead and Morehead’s course will exhibit a soft structure environment at ICFF in may 2012