Back when we could meet in small rooms for an interview, Dean Robert Kirkbride was interviewed by Mark Hage for Issue No. 29 of the literary and arts journal, A Public Space. “In these times of fragments and fragmented times,” this newly released issue focuses on “the shapes of our …

Bingxin Yu (MFA Interior Design 2022) has been announced as a winner in Interior Design magazine Best of Year Awards 2020. Congratulations Bingxin!

Under a TEDC grant, BFA Architectural Design Director Emily Moss and Part-Time Faculty Carolin Mees repurposed SCE’s Spring 2019 Street Seats, originally located on East 13th Street outside the University Center. The temporary installation was repurposed for the Moore-Jackson Community Garden, a half–acre site located next to high-rise residential buildings …

Parsons Lighting design program hosts an interactive conversation to promote advocacy of marginalized groups as part of the lighting designers’ role. In addition to connecting likeminded people across the global lighting design community, this program will seed supportive structures to sustain action required to achieve greater diversity and inclusion in the lighting design industry. Watch the video recording!

Don’t Miss Your Chance to Attend the #FCFestival for Free! This October, the Fast Company Innovation Festival will once again take over! For the first-time ever, the sixth annual event will be held virtually. But as always we will be bring extraordinary personalities together for surprising talks, hands-on workshops, unexpected …

Full-time faculty Jonsara Ruth was published in Metropolis Magazine and Dwell. Jonsara co-authored a piece for Metropolis Magazine which was published a couple of days ago called “Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era“.  Hana Kassem, co-author and Principal at KPF Architects, has also been a Part-Time faculty member at …

Trinetra Manickavasagam, MFA Lighting Design 2020, was selected for a Richard Kelly Grant. Trinetra Manickavasagam recently received her MFA in Lighting Design from Parson School of Design. She received a Grant for her work that examines the perception of source color changes in LEDs while dimming. Manickavasagam applied an evidence-based design …

In fall 2016, the Toronto-based interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg provided a generous gift to endow a permanent, named scholarship for a student in the Interior Design Program at Parsons. This scholarship honors the firm’s ongoing commitment to excellence in design education and its dedication to the promotion of creativity …

BFA ID director Yu Nong Khew was quoted last week about trends in home office and remote work on Medium’s tech blog called Onezero. See the article here.

As part of the SCE’s Adaptations online panels and talks series, the Interior Design program held a Zoom panel on April 16th entitled Adaptations: Interior Design Job Search In Uncertain Times. During the panel, industry professionals discussed their experiences job searching in the interior design field during times of international …