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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.
Professor David J. Lewis’s Firm Awarded Progressive Architecture Award 2018
LTL’s Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center / Early Childhood Initiatives Center, a collaboration with SCAPE Landscape Architecture, is a recipient of the 65th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards Citation. This important project for the community is currently under construction, and part of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. To …
Parsons x Roche Bobois Joint Studio: Final Projects and Winners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5qo-ntVuA During Fall 2017 semester, students in MFA Industrial Design and BFA Product Design worked with the prestigious French furniture store, Roche Bobois, to prototype full-scale seating devices aimed at reinvigorating “the cultural and historical rituals of resting, gathering, and nourishing the body.” The winners are: First Prize: The …
Renata Souza (BFA Product Design ’17) Presents at 2019 Design Indaba Conference
Souza presented Thomy, an insulin kit for children with type 1 diabetes that uses temporary tattoos to help them remember where they have previously injected the insulin.