Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Remembered: Its Architectural and Cultural Significance, Its Loss, and Implications for Other Historic Psychiatric Institutions – October 2016 is the one year anniversary of the demolition of Greystone Psychiatric Hospital. Why does Greystone remain so significant?  Greystone’s Last Stand: ‘As it is with most preservation efforts — The …

Cybernetic Urbanism: Managing (with) The Unmanageable City Speaker: Tim Jachna Place: 25 East 13th ST. Room: E206 Time: 7:00pm-8:00pm Date: October 5, 2016 The presentation given by Jachna will sketch out some possible elements of a second-order cybernetic perspective on the city and demonstrate some consequences and applications of this way …

Join us for a discussion with 7group’s John Boecker on integrative design concepts and case studies, and learn steps toward implementing this approach. SCHEDULE 6:00 – 6:30pm  Registration and Reception 6:30 – 8:00pm  Presentation and Discussion moderator Clare Miflin, RA, LEED AP BD+C, Certified Passive House Designer Architect, Kiss + …

Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2 A Book Launch, Panel Discussion and Video Screenings with SCE Dean Robert Kirkbride, Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews + guests Date: Monday, September 19th Time: 7pm Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn Event link: http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/kirkbride-hospitals-for-the-insane-part-2-a-book-launch-panel-discussion-and-video-screenings-with-robert-kirkbride-rusty-tagliareni-and-christina-mathews/   In this follow-up to a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …