INSIDE (hi) STORIES – Designing Sapphic Modernity: Against Communication

SCE and ADHT host a talk by Jasmine Rault, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, and a co-facilitator of FemTechNet. This talk focuses on the early twentieth century architectural and design work by Eileen Gray in order to explore some of the intersections between histories of communication, fashion, European …


Unpacking Diversity: Technologies / Ecologies

What is diversity within the context of urban environments? The third event of the Unpacking Diversity series explores the question of the diversification of design technologies and ecologies. Through projects that engage the spatial implications of environmental equity through material conditions (ecologies) and the tools (technologies) to transform them. Presentations: • …


Freelance Architectural Rendering Opportunity @ Roche Studios

Roche Studios is looking for an individual with refined skills as an architectural renderer. Bonnie Roche, Lang Board Member and owner of Roche Studios, has developed detailed plans for a project for the Jewish Ghetto in Italy and needs a person to render this project in a very subtle way. This may …


Waste Not: Poreform

SCE presents, Waste Not 7: Poreform, hosted by Andrew Bernheimer, Director of Master of Architecture at Parsons, and presented by Amy Mielke, co-founder of Water Pore Partnership. Poreform is a design proposal for a new type of water infrastructure that reveals an in-situ desire to capture runoff and flood water for reuse in our …


THE MAKING OF AN AVANT-GARDE: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984

Join us for THE MAKING OF AN AVANT-GARDE: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984,  Monday, November 16th at 7:00PM in the Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave. This film presents the creation and existence of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in the architectural, cultural, and political climate from …


Waste Not: Cyclifiers

In this talk, Jan Jongert shows Superuse Studios developing from a design office using waste flows into a multidisciplinary creative studio exploring the circular economy. He shows how realizing small scale design, buildings, start-ups, collaborative networks, urban plans and digital tools contribute to the development of a new resource-based design …


Last Chance To Enjoy Great Temporary Projects!

SCE invites you to enjoy the Street Seats project and Pansa/Panzer installation in their final days! Street Seats is currently located on 13th St. & 5th Ave., and will go into hibernation November 4th, and reemerge in Spring 2016 with a new design by students enrolled in the NEW Temporary Environments Minor. Pansa/Panzer is currently on display in the Sheila Johnson Design Center …


Waste Not: Shaping The Public: Social Machines. Working Over Conflict.

The School of Constructed Environments (SCE) at Parsons presents, Waste Not 5: Shaping The Public: Social Machines. Working Over Conflict., presented by Alejandro Haiek of Lab.Pro.Fab. The Public Machinery, an applied research project, focuses its research in the environment, the objects, and in human practices. The Public Machinery is interested in: different kinds of ecologies, the reprogram …


Unpacking Diversity: Politics/Economics

Social diversity as a value may be applied toward the goal of achieving an equitable society. The means to achieve this goal attain social justice “in all aspects for all people” requires the diversification of political and economic access to government; income production; land; and the production of space–most critically …


Waste Not: Placemaking & Sustainability in the Public Realm

SCE presents, Waste Not 4: Placemaking and Sustainability in the Public Realm, presented by Anthony Deen, Part-time Assistant Professor and Mike Boylan, Part-time Lecturer at Parsons. The development of a new suite of public furniture for Central Park, that try to address sustainability and the creation of a coherent sense of place through product …