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Parallel Cities Workshop

Parallel Cities 1 explored the process of craft techniques combining digital and analogue media with film and physical models to uncover relationships between bodies, networks, and spaces in New York City. The workshop brought together 8 graduate and undergraduate students from Parsons’ Temporary Environments course and  8 second year students …


Leela Shankar and Samuel Powers Win IESNYC Student Competition

This year’s theme, “Temporal Illuminance,” asked students to interpret how light is interwoven with time and memory.


Hou de Sousa Wins Re Ball Design Competition

Competition challenged designers to re-use 650,000 ball pit balls used in National Building Museum installation in 2015.


Allan Wexler Named Guggenheim Fellow for 2016

SCE faculty member Allan Wexler has been named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow for 2016. Fellows are recognized for their exceptional creative abilities in the arts. Each year the Foundation selects 200 grantees from a pool of between 3,500 and 4,000 applicants. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help …


Product Design Alumna Sam Ushiro Takes Over Yahoo Style’s Instagram for #TastyTakeovers

Recent Product Design graduate Sam Ushiro, who runs DIY design, craft, and baking blog Aww, Sam, was invited to take over Yahoo Style‘s Instagram feed for a week, sharing some of her DIY projects and her love of design, baking, and all things cute and colorful. Her instagram feed is …


Eva Perez de Vega Presenting at ASCA

Faculty Eva Perez de Vega will be presenting at the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) annual conference next week in Seattle, a paper that explores the relationship between the disciplines of Architecture and Philosophy called;”Disciplinary Promiscuity and Its Discontents”. Toshiko Mori is the Keynote speaker. Conference Overview As …


E-Waste Tsunami Exhibition in The Atlantic Magazine and Wired

City Lab feature looks at the problems of e-waste as highlighted in exhibition at the Sheila Johnson Center.


Yogita Agrawal at Design Indaba 2016 Conference

Recent Product Design graduate Yogita Agrawal was interviewed by Kaylon Koeries for Cape Town Partnership following her presentation at the Design Indaba 2016 Conference. She spoke about how her time at SCE helped shape her thinking about design and the problems it can address; the role of the designer in addressing …


David Lewis and LTL Architects Selected to Design Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center in Arkansas

Center will serve children up to pre-school as a community-based educational facility for young children.


Maryam Khaled Alkhalifa and Kim Kazandjian have designs featured on Mocoloco

Two Product Design juniors have worked featured on the design website Mocoloco.