The GREEN Scholarship Program with the Think Company

In partnership with the GREEN Program, The Think Company is providing a scholarship opportunity for the spring program cycle. The GREEN initiative is aimed at project-based education and hands-on industry exposure for future sustainability leaders. It is based on designing immersive, short-term programs for undergraduate and graduate students in a …


SCE Launches a Competition with Moroccanoil

Can luxury be sustainable? Sustainability is not a luxury — it is a necessity. While some companies around the world have been shifting gears and making sustainability their language(s), Parsons design community is on a path to crack it open… Starting from the hair care products on our shelves. This …


SCE Faculty Rama Chorpash to Judge 2020 Danish Design Award

Founding Director of Parsons MFA Industrial Design program Rama Chorpash has been named as part of the International Jury for the  2020 Danish Design Award — Design Denmark. Beyond the multi-staged judging deliberations throughout 2020, Chorpash will also act as an ambassador to the award. The award celebrates the many ways …


UNIQLO Design Competition

Each year, UNIQLO hosts a design competition. This year, it has partnered with MoMa under the theme “Draw your world.” Anyone can submit a design for review by a mixed panel of UNIQLO reps, MoMA reps, and artists. Winning designs will be printed on t-shirts that will be sold in …


JOB ALERT! Associate Program Opportunity

The Architecture Unit of the Port Authority of NY&NJ’s Engineering Department is seeking an Architectural Associate to join a staff of architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers working in a multidisciplinary design division on projects within the agency. The Associate Program is a unique two-year program, which after successful completion, culminates …


Devon Reina Has Been Featured in Icon

Congratulations to Devon Reina, Parsons alum in the BFA Product Design program, for having his work featured in Icon. PseudoPhysical series focuses on the importance of interactions and questions our perception by subverting design and physical laws. Everyday objects, from cups and pencils to dice and chess-men, are manipulated in such …


‘Surviving Progress’, Film screening and Discussion

The New School’s Centennial Festival and the Tishman Environment and Design Center will be hosting a screening of Surviving Progress, a documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.   From the filmmakers:   ‘Technological advancement, economic development, population increase – are they signs of a thriving …


Parsons Faculty Participate in Panel with Macy’s

On September 19th, 2019, SCE Associate Professor of Sustainable Interior Design Nadia Elrokhsy and SCE Assistant Professor of Interior Design Yu Nong Khew, along with Parsons’ Dean of Hybrid Design Studies, Lidewij Edelkoort, internationally recognized design forecaster, strategist and educator, MFA in Fashion Design and Society Director and Donna Karan …


Celebrating Parsons Design Workshop Projects on Governors Island

The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons is pleased to announce the ribbon cutting for two Parsons Design Workshop projects created in collaboration with the Trust for Governor’s Island: Pagganuck and the Lab at Urban Farm.   The opening will celebrate the culmination of a two-year partnership with TGI, and …


SCE Faculty Nadia Elrokhsy to be panelist on GreenHome NYC’s meet-up event

SCE AAS Interior Design Director, Nadia Elrokhsy, is an invited panelist and will participate in this evening’s GreenHome NYC meet-up event with other sustainability professionals in academia from Columbia University, CUNY, and Pratt Institute. Come listen, learn and network! 6:30pm – 8:00pm, TOTO Showroom, 20 W 22nd St, NY, NY …