From January 6 to 14th, twelve Parsons Architectural Design and Urban Design students and ten students from the International Design and Architecture program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok participated in an international workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of the workshop, #watchingthericegrow grew out of SCE Professor Brian McGrath’s …

Design Workshop takes on the challenge of redesigning and rethinking museum space. Nine graduate students from Parsons School of Constructed Environments has been working diligently over the summer to create a more easy flowing and exciting lobby and lounge area for The Children’s Museum of the Arts in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan. …

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 thing that is a little bit nagging in people’s minds about mass production is that everything looks the same. But could you mass-produce uniqueness? That’s the perfect crime.” To give this thought a push Mr. Tom Dixon and Ikea held a workshop at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York …

Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, joins Parsons’ 2017 Design Workshop Team + AIANY Medal of Honor + Upcoming Book signings Parsons SCE is delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Sutton, FAIA, renowned architectural educator and emeritus Professor of the University of Washington, has joined our 2017 Design Workshop Studio team to …

Parallel Cities 1 explored the process of craft techniques combining digital and analogue media with film and physical models to uncover relationships between bodies, networks, and spaces in New York City. The workshop brought together 8 graduate and undergraduate students from Parsons’ Temporary Environments course and  8 second year students …

Making Center Workshops An ongoing goal at Parsons is to support learning beyond the classroom. The making facilities across the University serve as spaces for experiential and cross-disciplinary learning through hands-on practice, allowing students from varying departments and disciplines to work side-by-side, informing each other along the way. The Making …

A series of events on the the theme of examining (or unpacking) diversity specifically in design related fields.

This series of workshops will explore themes from the Cities and Citizenship conference and facilitate dialogue between students and professionals from a variety of disciplines including architecture, design, urban planning, and sociology.

Site Specificity, Body as Form: Everyday places are carefully choreographed in Wexler + Hartmann’s MFA Interior Design Studio 1, fall 2013.