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James Karl Fischer, PhD Lecture

Dr. Fischer experiments with alternative approaches to artistic lighting, such as color, music, lumia and holography. He develops critical tools to embark on less task-oriented and more life-engaging approaches in environmental design.


SCE Faculty, Susanne Schindler, Is Part Of The Multi-Disciplinary Design Think Tank Team R8

Susanne Schindler, adjunct faculty for architecture at SCE, is part of the multi-disciplinary design think tank Team R8. http://teamr8.com/ Team R8’s proposal “The City as Living Room” for new forms of shared living along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, is currently on view in the exhibition “Making Room: New …


SCE’s Andy Bernheimer Juries Little Free Libraries Competition

Andy Bernheimer of the School of Constructed environments will be jurying the Little Free Libraries/New York Project. This competition will award ten design teams with $1000 to design and create small-scale libraries to house books. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 4, 2013.


Constructed Environments and Strategic Design Career Day

This event is for graduating students and current students to meet with potential employers and discuss job and internship opportunities in the fields of architecture, interior design, product design, sustainability and urban planning


Product Design Director Rama Chorpash Featured in The New Yorker

AT THE MUSEUMS
Design Derby by Emma Allen
“Rama Chorpash, the director of product design at Parsons, arrived to introduce his entry, the Spiraloop. It is a stainless-steel potato masher, produced by a family-owned spring company in Brooklyn”.


SCE Faculty Publications Pecha Kucha

Join us Thursday Feb 14th, 6-7pm for presentation from recently published SCE Faculty.


SCE Programs Top National Rankings

Azure ranked our Interior Design and Product Design programs as among the best in North America. Design Intelligence ranked Parsons’ MFA Interior Design program #4 in the nation, and the BFA Interior Design ranked #8. Design Intelligence also ranked Parsons’ Master of Architecture program as one of the top ten graduate programs in the Eastern United States.


Spring SCE Public Programs Announced

Please join us for our series of special events this semester


Lighting Student receives the John L. Tishman Scholarship

MFA Lighting Design Student Kara Palmore, shown here with her daylight study model, is one of eight Parsons students to receive a John L. Tishman Scholarship this year. The John L. Tishman Scholarship recognizes students who demonstrate notable commitment to and advocacy for sustainability through art and design. Kara was …


MFA Lighting Design Program Supports PLDC 2013

Parsons The New School for Design and the MFA Lighting Design program is proud to support the Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC 2013, as a Partner University.