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 …

In fall 2016, the Toronto-based interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg provided a generous gift to endow a permanent, named scholarship for a student in the Interior Design Program at Parsons. This scholarship honors the firm’s ongoing commitment to excellence in design education and its dedication to the promotion of creativity …

Over the summer, Simon David, Founding Principal of OSD design firm and Parsons BFA Architecture professor, has been working on an open street plan for the Flatiron Business District together with a couple of students from his New Green Deal spring 2020 studio. Studying pedestrian patterns during the pandemic has …

BFA ID director Yu Nong Khew was quoted last week about trends in home office and remote work on Medium’s tech blog called Onezero. See the article here.

Madame Architect has recently launched a summer series of conversations with recent alumni from a wide range of architecture programs taught it NYC. And while #NextGen may seem to gravitate towards commons questions, those basic quires are gaining additional value in the light of current crisis, uncertainties and challenges that young professionals …

We are excited to share an opinion piece published by Dr. Sharon Sutton, renowned scholar, activist, educator and Parsons Visiting Professor, that has recently appeared in the AIA Journal. Dr. Sutton reflects on the current situation when business as usual has come to an unprecedented halt, and opportunities this pause …

Daniel Michalik, BFA/MFA Product and Industrial Design full-time faculty member, has recently shared how the current crisis has shaped and informed his teaching methods and helped bring his own professional practices closer to students. Approaching both teaching and making from a state of scarcity and lack of access to materials …

Congratulations to Parsons SCE Professor Brian McGrath on his contribution to the digital publication of “Designing Brussels Ecosystem,” a collective research project led by Metrolab (a transdisciplinary inter-university laboratory) and a team of international urban scholars and experts. The book explores the state of urban ecosystem in Brussels and provides …

Parsons SCE end-of-year exhibition has joined the list of most successful efforts to transition to online educational  experience compiled by the Architect’s Newspaper. Although the list itself is by no means exhaustive, it unveils creative tactics and changes that architecture programs across the US have had to undergo in the …

Congratulations to our new alumni, Luis Urribarri and Jakub Klaban (BFA AD), and Tommy Yang (MArch), and their respective studio faculty, Brian McGrath, David Leven and Peter Robinson for contributing award-wining projects to the annual NYCxDESIGN festival. While the NYCxDESIGN Award program spans a broad range of design disciplines, including …