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Interschool Housing Studio: Toward a Shared Pedagogy
Join us today for the Interschool Housing Studio hosted by Parsons SCE. As a collaborative effort among six New York metro area schools/programs of architecture, it will allow participants to share best practices in housing studio pedagogy. For spring 2019, the participating schools — City College, Cooper Union, NJIT, NYIT, Parsons …
Differniture – a new venture to re-use discarded woodwork
Aakriti Kumar, Parsons alumna, started a venture to reclaim discarded floorboards, beams, and other woodwork, and convert it into sustainable yet intricate pieces of new furniture. Having started her journey with just one carpenter, Aakriti now has an established furniture design atelier, Differniture, based in New Delhi. Her practice embraces …
Lisa Marks, Parsons, named one of the 2019 Lexus Design Award finalists
Lisa Marks, recent alumni of MFA Industrial Design at Parsons SCE and currently faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named one of the Lexus Design Award finalists for 2019. Working at the intersection of craft research and algorithmic design, she designed a three-dimensional lace bra for breast cancer …
2017 Street Seats Won Core 77 Community Choice Grand Prize!
The community has spoken! 2017 Street Seats is the grand prize winner of this year’s Community Choice. Congratulations to all the students and faculty involved in the project. Design Build Students: Reem Abi Samra, Katelin Collier, Javier Contreras, Russell Conway, Shaya Gansburg, Finn Harries, Charlotte Hoefer, Seung Chae Kang, Pranati …
M.Arch Students’ Proposal Received an Award of Merit by the Mayor of Venice
Parsons was the only North American School invited to participate in the “Marghera City of Making: International Design Competition.” The design competition aims to explore visions and urban schemes envisaging the re-articulation of manufacturing areas in between Mestre and Marghera industrial area in Italy, the two mainland cities connected …
MFA Industrial Design Students Are Core77 Runners-up!
Congratulations new MFA graduates Sarah Templin, Gregory Beson, Danielle Connelly, and Wenny Chen for receiving the Runner-up in Core77 Design Awards: Design for Social Impact. Their project, BinBin, proposes a produce system that puts a strong focus on the circular economy. It combines the lightweight convenience of cardboard produce …
Upcoming lectures by Dean Kirkbride for Kirkbride Hospital Communities in US Midwest
In the second half of June 2018, Dean Robert Kirkbride will travel to two Midwest cities, Fergus Falls, Minnesota (June 16) and Athens, Ohio (June 23), where he will present on the historical significance of Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane and offer recent examples of their successful adaptive reuse. …
Victoria Milne’s firm 6¢ Design produced the inaugural Times Square Design Lab in May
Part of the Times Square Design Lab team sitting on Island Collection, by Brad Ascalon Times Square Design Lab ‘18. Left to right: Jerome Barth, Brittney Hazelwood, Victoria Milne, Brad Ascalon, Louis Lim, William Sarnecky, Alexandra Gonzalez, Rebecca Rodal. Part time faculty Victoria Milne‘s firm, 6¢ Design, worked with client Times …
BFA PD Senior Susannah Weaver Won the RADO Star Prize
Our very own BFA PD senior Susannah Weaver WON the juries selection for the RADO star prize! It was for her “felted concrete” stool, which is an evolution of a project she did in studio with Daniel Michalik and Christian Swafford in Fall 2017. Weaver also works in the Healthy …
Product Alumni, Pilsoo Jang & Guewan Kim, received an honor from Dieline Awards 2018.
Pilsoo and Guewan (BFA Product Design ’17) received a second place award from Dieline Awards, Concept Design category, for their shampoo packaging that they designed for their capstone project at Parsons SCE. Congratulations Pilsoo and Guewan! For more information, please visit here.