MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design programs enjoyed a strong showing at the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) International Conference, called “Design IS Business” in Atlanta from 16 – 20 August. Ariane Elefterin (MFA IDD 2017) presented her thesis research “Being in Touch” at the IDSA Education Symposium “Emergent Pedagogy …

SCE is excited to announce that there will be eight 2017 Public Programs. More information on the events along with dates, times & locations can be found HERE at the Parsons Events Calendar. We look forward to having you in attendance!

“Anne-Sophie Granger and Jesse Cermak, BFA Interior Design students have been announced as two of the thirteen winners of the Angelo Donghia Foundation 2017 Student Scholarship Program in Interior Design. Their work was selected out of a pool of 69 student projects from accredited interior design institutions across the country. …

Affordable Housing in the Age of Trump – New York architect, Andrew Bernheimer, once a luxury condo designer, has embraced the challenge of building affordable housing. The current administration is about to make his job even harder. But over the past decade or two, good, thoughtful architects have become passionate about …

Congratulations to Derek Porter to being one of the IESNYC 2017 Service Award Recipients. Porter is the Principal Designer of Derek Porter Studio and Associate Professor, MFA Lighting Design at Parsons School of Design. Porter received the 2017 Special Recognition Award which was presented by the New York City Section of …

MFA Arch student, Nick Tafel temporarily trades in NYC for Portland. Nick has relocated to Portland, OR for the summer where he will be interning at the Nike headquarters for their Global Retail Design team. The Global Retail Design studio at Nike is responsible for designing retail concepts and environments that are …

Interior Design studio courses often revolve around a specific design challenge. Our AAS Parsons second semester design studio selected the city’s neighborhood library as our focus. In particular we asked Interior Design students to challenge the traditional models of libraries in relation to the emerging technologies of virtuality and computing. …

Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …

The exhibition Architecture for Curitiba – Expo 2017, will be showing between May and August of 2017, explores new ways of comprehending, thinking and planning a city. The intention was to contribute to the advancement of an architecture discourse and to bring the city back to the avant-garde of architecture …

Congratulations to the Core77 winners! Student Winner, Strategy and Research: Nonliving Stakeholders by Sungmy Kim, MFA Transdisc Design Student Notable, Furniture and Lighting: Cada series by Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design Student Notable, Visual Communications: Tit for Tat by Yunjoo Lee, BFA Communication Design For more information on the Parsons graduates that participated please click HERE!