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The GREEN Scholarship Program with the Think Company
In partnership with the GREEN Program, The Think Company is providing a scholarship opportunity for the spring program cycle. The GREEN initiative is aimed at project-based education and hands-on industry exposure for future sustainability leaders. It is based on designing immersive, short-term programs for undergraduate and graduate students in a …
SCE Launches a Competition with Moroccanoil
Can luxury be sustainable? Sustainability is not a luxury — it is a necessity. While some companies around the world have been shifting gears and making sustainability their language(s), Parsons design community is on a path to crack it open… Starting from the hair care products on our shelves. This …
SCE Faculty Rama Chorpash to Judge 2020 Danish Design Award
Founding Director of Parsons MFA Industrial Design program Rama Chorpash has been named as part of the International Jury for the 2020 Danish Design Award — Design Denmark. Beyond the multi-staged judging deliberations throughout 2020, Chorpash will also act as an ambassador to the award. The award celebrates the many ways …
UNIQLO Design Competition
Each year, UNIQLO hosts a design competition. This year, it has partnered with MoMa under the theme “Draw your world.” Anyone can submit a design for review by a mixed panel of UNIQLO reps, MoMA reps, and artists. Winning designs will be printed on t-shirts that will be sold in …
Devon Reina Has Been Featured in Icon
Congratulations to Devon Reina, Parsons alum in the BFA Product Design program, for having his work featured in Icon. PseudoPhysical series focuses on the importance of interactions and questions our perception by subverting design and physical laws. Everyday objects, from cups and pencils to dice and chess-men, are manipulated in such …
Parsons Faculty Participate in Panel with Macy’s
On September 19th, 2019, SCE Associate Professor of Sustainable Interior Design Nadia Elrokhsy and SCE Assistant Professor of Interior Design Yu Nong Khew, along with Parsons’ Dean of Hybrid Design Studies, Lidewij Edelkoort, internationally recognized design forecaster, strategist and educator, MFA in Fashion Design and Society Director and Donna Karan …
SCE Faculty Nadia Elrokhsy to be panelist on GreenHome NYC’s meet-up event
SCE AAS Interior Design Director, Nadia Elrokhsy, is an invited panelist and will participate in this evening’s GreenHome NYC meet-up event with other sustainability professionals in academia from Columbia University, CUNY, and Pratt Institute. Come listen, learn and network! 6:30pm – 8:00pm, TOTO Showroom, 20 W 22nd St, NY, NY …
SCE Faculty Becomes One of the Finalist in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC Competition
Jeremiah Joseph, a part-time faculty member in SCE’s AAS Interior Design program, and his colleague are finalists in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition, a competition organized by NYC Department of Housing and Urban Development (NYC HUD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY). Big Ideas …
Azimut Yachts Competition 2019
Azimut Yachts is calling for a highly innovative and creative project aimed at transport and industrial designers as well as interior spaces designers. The task is to design the exterior OR the interior of a new day cruiser to be launched under the Atlantis Collection of the brand. THE PRIZE: …
Street Seats 2019 is Coming!
The NYC Department of Transportation Street Seats program is a seasonal project that reclaims portions of New York’s streets for much needed public space. Since 2016, Parsons School of Design has collaborated with the NYC DOT to design and build a public parklet through an undergraduate elective class offered by the School of …