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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

International Design Awards The International Design Awards (IDA) exists to recognize, celebrate and promote legendary design visionaries and to uncover emerging talent in Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic, and Fashion Design. IDA aspires to draw attention to the iconoclasm of design worldwide, conceptualizing and producing great work. Farmani Group assembled IDA in 2007 …

Applications are now open for the 2018 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture: Infrastructures Deadline: Nov 1, 2018 The James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture is open to anyone, anywhere in the world, who has received an accredited degree in architecture within the last eight years. The $50,000 fellowship is granted biannually to support 6-12 …

Over the past several months, Dean Robert Kirkbride has been considering this question through a series of lectures, interviews and award-winning writing. When the building at question is one of the 34 remaining Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, which share the tragic legacy of a very real, very troubled past, …

For the third year running, Parsons School of Design at The New School has been named one of the best art and design schools in the world. That’s according to QS World University Rankings, a London-based “global provider of specialist higher education and careers information and solutions,” which ranked Parsons third …

Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) was invited to present her Product Design Capstone Project, Thomy, as part of the Design Indaba  presentations at Dutch Design Week 2017. Thomy provides a fun and self-sufficient methods for insulin injection in children with Type 1 diabetes. Following her presentation, Souza was awarded the …

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates for participatory planning and design processes in disenfranchised communities. Over a 42-year period, Dr. Sutton has served on …