Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit”
This Friday, 4/23 from 12-1:30, Dean Kirkbride will moderate the Roundtable, “Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit” for a Pandemic, as part of The Memory Studies Group’s online conference, Suspended Present. Featuring presentations by three students from NSSR’s Department of Anthropology, the Roundtable is part of the annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021, hosted by The …
New Book by Professor Mark Hage
Congratulations to Mark Hage, Parsons SCE faculty, on the publication of Capital, a photographic essay and exploration of New York’s shuttered stores, and a mediation on impermanence. “At first, and perhaps out of discomfort, I walked by thinking of them as surface, without seeking depth or further understanding. But with time, …
Rama Chorpash in Conversation with Circular City Week
Circular City Week New York brings together local change makers and global front runners as well as a wide range of experts and advocates who would like to join the circular economy movement. The aim of the week is to inspire industry professionals across sectors, showcase international pioneers, highlight local change makers …
Tommy Yang and Cia Siab in Wisconsin explores home and healing in The Battlefields of Memory
The Battlefields of Memory explores “cia siab” (hope) to understand Hmong youth, elders, LGBTQ, and women’s lived experiences of war, historical trauma, memory, resilience, and healing through unpacking home narratives of the bedroom. Historical trauma shows up in traces; whether that is the trace of the refugee camps in an …
Save the Date! – proTango 2021 will be March 4, 2021!
proTango is an annual public event organized by LUX Parsons, a student organization comprised of individuals enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Lighting Design program. The event invites design professionals (pro) to Parsons to meet students for a lively and dynamic exchange (Tango) surrounding employment opportunities, design ideas, and …
BFA ID Director, Yu Nong Khew quoted by Refinery 29 as the world approaches almost a year of pandemic living
As the world approaches almost a year of pandemic living, Yu Nong Khew shares her thoughts with Refinery 29. Our homes will be ready for whatever comes next. Yu Nong Khew is Director of the BFA Interior Design Program within SCE. Khew is quotes here, “Home is where you feel secure for …
One Week to Sell: Parsons Interior Design Alums help make this a reality for sellers
Chelsea Barile (BFA ID 2020), Katherine Anderson (BFA ID 2020) and Ashley Le (BFA ID 2021) are on Taylor Spellman’s design dream team. Unsold homes become red hot properties when New York-based interior designer and home stager, Taylor Spellman and Kate Dickens, her right-hand woman and friend for more than thirty years, create …
SCE Alumna Designed Space for the Germanottas
Oda Olafsrud, SCE M.Arch alumna, completed her project for Joe and Cynthia Germanotta where she had been asked to convert a duplex unit, previously owned by filmmaker Robert Altman, into a habitable home. Inspired by Scandinavian aesthetics, Oda approached the redesign as an exercise in choreographing space whereby art, movement …
Tactile Experience of Music by SCE Alum Md Sujon Ishaq
Expression by Md Sujon Ishaq Song: Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Suite No.1 Over the course of winter break, SCE organized a series of skill-oriented workshops for its students focusing on physical modelmaking and Rhino. The BFA AD alum Md Sujon Ishaq, currently enrolled in the M.Arch program, led a creative workshop …