Oculus, the quarterly publication of the New York Chapter of the AIA, featured an article on the creative work of the School of Constructed Environments in their Fall 2012. This special issue of Oculus focuses on the relationship between education and the profession.

The School of Constructed Environments: Architecture / Interior Design / Lighting Design / Product Design regularly invites a selection of its diverse faculty to present what’s on the table’ in their creative research practices. This evening we will host Alexa Griffiths Winton and Mark Rakatansky. Design historian Alexa Griffith Winton specializes in the history and theory of the modern domestic interior.

Check out the latest coverage on the Parsons Design Workshop Project, in conjunction w/ the NYC Parks Dept., Splash House.

Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Assistant Professor, SCE, will be participating in the “Theatrum Mundi / The Global Street” conference at Columbia University this Friday, October 12, 2012. The conference is part of a new urban forum that “seeks to understand what brings life to a city, particularly in its public places and asks how these might be better designed.”

This event brings together two architects, Andrew Waugh and Michael Green, leading the design exploration of timber buildings, and Cees de Jager who directs the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, a nonprofit organization established by the Canadian and U.S. Governments to increase the use of wood products as part of the shift to green building. Thursday 11th October 2012, 6-8PM

In mag.net, designed in collaboration with Human Kinetics Movement Arts, a spider-like web of metal and elastic elements suspended and stretched in the space is reconfigured by dancers with magnets. Public free performances: Thursday 4th October 2012, 7PM and Thursday 11th October 2012, 7PM at 81 White Street.

‘As It Is On Earth’ has been receiving great press, and is the subject of a blog interview series at Metropolis. The panel discussion, with special guests Susan Szenasy and Joseph Salvatore, will discuss the phenomenon of writers who are also designers. How might the point of view, tools and palettes of the space designer behave differently in the terrain of literature?

People perceive space with many senses. Charlie Morrow gave a workshop within MFA Interior Design Studio 1 to investigate sound and audio experience as a primary consideration in the design of interiors. A video was made to capture the essence of the workshop: sound is an integral element in the design of interiors.

The School of Constructed Environments: Architecture / Interior Design / Lighting Design / Product Design regularly invites a selection of its diverse faculty to present what’s on the table’ in their creative research practices.

This Thursday evening we host ProdDaniel Michalik and Nathalie Rozot.

Art, Environment, Action! is a creative teaching laboratory and environmental “artshop.” Bringing together artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists who work at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology, it invites the public to join them to transform and activate the gallery.