The School of Constructed Environments would like to highlight two of our esteemed Interior Design faculty members here at Parsons, Adeboyega Adefope, AAS ID Director & Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects, and Technology and Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Professor of Ecological Design, who both presented at the IDEC 2023 East Regional …

The Making Center, a spacious studio bringing together creative tools from around the university, offers students unprecedented opportunities to acquire industry-ready skills, transform how products are made, and upend conventional notions of supply chains, local production, mass customization, and craft. Sharing this 26,000 square-foot space, students from all Parsons programs …

The Donghia Healthier Materials Library at Parsons School of Design is a resource center dedicated to helping designers make responsible materials decisions. With curated product collections and frameworks for evaluating materials, we offer guiding strategies and hands- on examples of products making positive impacts on human health, environmental justice, and …

The Light + Energy Lab is a space designed for light manipulation to simulate sunlight effects on architectural models. This can be done using our two primary tools – the Diffuse Sky Simulator and the Heliodon. The DSS is a large chamber that can be used to analyze diffuse light …

Congratulations to 2023 Thesis Award Recipient, Lydia Simpson ’23!   Lydia Simpson is a recent graduate of the Parsons School of Design MFA Lighting Design program. She received a BFA in Design and Technology for Theater from the University of North Georgia and worked as a Lighting Designer in Atlanta …

Announcing the annual Collab Student Design Competition, inspired by Stephen Burks   Dear Colleagues, What does the next generation imagine for the future of design? Every year, university-level design students respond to a unique challenge that affects daily life with the best designs, which are showcased by Collab and the Philadelphia Museum of …

Call out! @artsthread’s @globaldesigngraduateshow 2023 in collaboration with @gucci is now accepting submissions from all art and design BA & MA art & design students graduating between September 2022 – August 2023 (Southern hemisphere graduating after September 2022), across any related creative discipline, from anywhere in the world!  Visit http://globaldesigngraduateshow.com …

Students from the MFA Industrial Design, 2023 graduating class presented Thesis projects with Wanted Design as part of ICFF at the Javits Center in NYC.

Students from the MFA Industrial Design, 2023 Graduating class presented Thesis projects at Ludlow/SOMMwhere as part of NYCxDesign during the NYC design week.

The MFA in Industrial Design at Parsons School of Design gives students the opportunity to explore making in a variety of contexts, develop critical thinking skills, and integrate ideas about sustainability, consumerism, production, and more into their practice. Recently, three students from the program were awarded NYCxDesign Student Awards for …