IDSA is hosting a seminar with guest speaker Sam Stewart on December 9th at 6pm. Sam is a New York based artist whose work resembles and functions as household furniture and domestic objects. As sculptures, they often take on animalistic qualities that border on the absurd and whimsical. Please note …

Mark Gardner’s new feature has been recently published by Design Milk as part of Friday Five, a series of posts where architects, designers, artists, and shop owners choose their five favorite and inspirational things to talk about. From Du Bois’ critical research on the African-American community, to the birth of …

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!

SCE Dean Robert Kirkbride will join the 16th annual Deans’ Roundtable organized by the Center for Architecture on November 6th at 6:00 pm. Representatives from several local schools of architecture will discuss current directions and challenges in architectural education. Registration is free and open here. Learn more about the event here.

Join Monica Rhodes, Professor Randall Mason, and Mark Gardner for a conversation on preserving the legacy of civic rights history, and the creation of a new center at the Weitzman School focused on the preservation of civic rights sites. The talk will be hosted on November 12th at 12:00 PM …

Mark Gardner, Director of the Masters of Architecture program, has talked to the AIA about the role the current generation of students has in challenging the existing institutional landscape, including the university, and domineering pedagogies. “If you want diversity, it’s an action. You actually have to create it.” Although he …

The Vitra Summit, a two-day global digital conference on design and its role in today’s world, has opened registration for Parsons students and faculty. Including films, conversations, presentations and performances, the Vitra Summit 2020 will feature a host of scientists, creatives, and business leaders. Speakers include Ilse Crawford, Beatriz Colomina, Virgil Abloh, architecture curator Beatrice …

Congratulations to Andrew Bernheimer, Parsons SCE faculty in Architecture, on publishing a new book. “Fairy Tale Architecture”, which has already been featured in The New York Times, reimagines the relationship between the magical realm of every fairy tale inhabited by characters as well as architectural structures of all sorts, and …

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 …