2015 Product Design Alumni Featured on Forbes Asia 30 Under 30
2015 BFA Product Design Alumni Shubham Issar, Amanat Anand, and Yogita Agrawal were recently selected for the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list of innovative entrepreneurs for their product SoaPen, a new system of soap-based crayons that brings easier hand-washing to underserved communities. For more information on SoaPen and their …
InsideInside.org, online research tool, reviewed in ‘Objective’
InsideInside.org is an online database and research platform of historic, modern and contemporary interiors. A call for feedback is included in the spring/summer 2017 issue of ‘Objective’, the Journal of the History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program at Parsons. The goal of the InsideInside website is to organize a resource …
African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 22 At Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place NY, NY 10012) Please join for African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future explores the legacy of architectural modernism featured in the exhibition Architecture of Independence – African Modernism. It is vital to consider the complexity of …
Derek Porter to Speak at California State University, Long Beach
Derek Porter will speak at California State University, Long Beach as part of the Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series. This lecture series invites professionals and academics from diverse design, architecture, science and manufacturing sectors to share ideas and experiences with students and faculty. For more information on the lecture series …
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Intern no more: AIA supports two new titles for professionals pursuing licensure
Intern no more: AIA supports two new titles for professionals pursuing licensure. A new position statement from AIA seeks to move architecture beyond the outdated use of ‘intern.’ In December of 2016, AIA’s Board of Directors updated the Institute’s position statements to clarify the term “intern.” The newly approved statement specified that, …
Facing the design profession’s diversity problem—and its changing future
“One need only take a casual look at this audience to see that we have a long way to go in this field of integration of the architects.” This is how civil rights activist Whitney M. Young, Jr., then the executive director of the National Urban League, opened his impassioned …
Designer Tom Dixon at the Parsons School of Design in New York – discussing mass production and uniqueness
“The thing that is a little bit nagging in people’s minds about mass production is that everything looks the same. But could you mass-produce uniqueness? That’s the perfect crime.” To give this thought a push Mr. Tom Dixon and Ikea held a workshop at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York …