Derek Porter, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, and Jean Gardner, Associate Professor of Social-Ecological History and Design, gave a lecture at Enlighten Europe in Prague, The Czech Republic, last fall. Their presentation, (Your) Body Sensing: An Ecological Approach to Lighting Design, introduced ecological design considerations and multi-sensorial ways in which …

On November 11, 2016, Dean Kirkbride joined his fellow deans and representatives from eleven schools of architecture at New York’s Center for Architecture for a remarkably candid and substantive roundtable discussion of current directions in architectural education and responses to a controversial letter from AIA National shortly following the 2016 U.S. …

Lunch + Learn IV – Join us February 15th in the Donghia Gallery from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthier Materials Lab at Parsons present their fifth Lunch + Learn with Libeco Linen, Belgian linen   Libeco Linen is based in Meulebeke, Belgium – a small village – between Bruges and the French …

A large urban farm and public space project in South Phoenix designed by Parsons urban design and architecture Faculty Quilian Riano for the collective of non-profits Cultivate South Phoenix has been featured in two national news outlets. The article on the Architect’s Newspaper HERE! focuses on the project’s design and community …

Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, joins Parsons’ 2017 Design Workshop Team + AIANY Medal of Honor + Upcoming Book signings Parsons SCE is delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, renowned architectural educator and emeritus Professor of the University of Washington, has joined our 2017 Design Workshop Studio team to …

You want to work for social justice at the global level but most United Nations study programs take you sightseeing. Do you want just a cursory tour or do you want to immerse yourself in international affairs? The United Nations Summer Study (UNSS) program, offered by The New School’s Graduate Program in …

Marie Levine is an interior designer at Nemaworkshop, an extremely collaborative and conceptual interior design studio in NYC. Levine’s day to day tasks range from space planning, model making, and designing custom furniture. Levine’s personal design fondness are textiles. As a student, Levine developed a textile design that was later picked up …

MFA Industrial Design Students Win “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” We congratulate 2nd year MFA Industrial Design students Ari Elefterin and Matt Callahan for their “Leave No Trace Leaf Knife” in the  “Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge!” Projects were created in the course entitled Life Cycle Analysis in which students entered the …

New lunch time series directed towards undergraduate and graduate architecture students in SCE entitled, Architecture & “X”. Each month the series will welcome an individual within the architectural field. Students will have the opportunity to listen in on these key note lectures followed by question and answer. Tuesday February 14th, 2017: …

Candidates for full-time faculty positions at Parsons give job talks, which are public, on-campus presentations to our faculty and staff. The job talks allow candidates to present themselves in the context of their research, scholarship, or creative practice, and pedagogical philosophy. Each candidate speaks for about thirty minutes, followed by …