Lectures



MFA ID Professor Co-organizes Conference with NSSR

MFA ID Faculty Member Eva Perez de Vega is co-organizing a conference with the New School Social Research, featuring presenters from the MFA ID Program. Find out more Here.   Conference: WITH/IN ENVIRONMENTS REIMAGINING FRAMEWORKS AND PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY Description of overall conference: Since Plato, western philosophy has been …


SCE Public Program: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore

SCE Public Programs Presents: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore Thursday, April 7 7-8pm EST Zoom Link   Hosted By: Yu Nong Khew, Dir. BFA ID Program; Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects and Technology Cotter Christian, Assoc. Dean SCE; Assistant Prof. of Interior Design What does it mean to design …


SCE Public Program: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting

SCE Public Programs Presents: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting Tuesday March 29, 2022 12-1:30pm EST Access a recording of the event Here. Hosted by: Glenn Shrum, IALD, Associate Professor of Lighting Design and Interdisciplinary Practice, Parsons School of Design / Founding Principal, Flux Studio Nearly 5% of current global CO2 emissions are …


SCE Students and Faculty featured at IDEC Annual Conference 2022

2022 Virtual Annual Conference Reconnect + Recalibrate March 1-4   This year’s conference is an opportunity for interior design educators, students and stakeholders to reconnect, share scholarship, learn about new teaching practices, forge industry partnerships, and explore opportunities for collaboration. The 2022 conference seeks to foreground our individual and collective …


AIANY Virtual Student Roundtable ft. SCE M.Arch Student

AIANY Virtual Student Roundtable Saturday, 02/26/2022, from 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM The AIA New York Architecture Student Roundtable will convene student leaders in student government, AIAS, and NOMAS from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture to discuss various topics including race, gender, equity, disruptions, and labor. M.Arch Candidate Olivia Haley-Schmitt will be representing …


MFA ID DESIGN STUDIO 3 EXHIBITION + SHOW

MFA ID DESIGN STUDIO 3 EXHIBITION Please join us next Thursday, December 9th, for the Design Studio 3 exhibition. The Fall semester marks the beginning of  thesis research for second-year students at the MFA in Interior Design program. In this context, Design Studio 3 becomes a space for spatial, formal, and material …


Keynote Lecture by Emmanuel Pratt, Sweet Water Foundation

Emmanuel Pratt is an urban designer creating a model of resident-driven community development in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment. Pratt is co-founder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side that engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration …


SCE Climate Colloquium | November 11

Climate Colloquium Invitation  Please join this Thursday for the SCE Climate Colloquium. While unusual, this is a day-long, all-school event aligned with COP26 so students, faculty, and staff can collective focus attention to the existential threat, persistent presence, and unjust impact of the global climate crisis.  And, equally, to embrace and …


A Conversation with Actor + Director Daniel Wu

A Conversation with Actor + Director Daniel Wu: What I Learned in Design School On October 28, the Interior Design program at Parsons School of Constructed Environments hosted an online discussion with actor, director, and producer Daniel Wu about how studying architecture influenced his career in film. Daniel has 78 …


Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of Great Power Competition

SCE would like to bring your attention to India China Institute‘s upcoming public event on October 14th on Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of Great Power Competition.  This talk has been organized in part at the behest of various New School faculty members, as evidenced through this group emails and …