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Susan Attiwill Lecture, Wednesday, 21 March, 6:15-7:30pm
22 March, Thursday 6:15-7:30pm
The Glass Corner (room 206), 25 East 13th Street
IDSA NYC Inspiration Lounge: Re-Designing Healthcare. March 28, Glass Corner
Join IDSA NYC in collaboration with Parsons The New School For Design & METROPOLIS in a new series called Inspiration Lounge. Inspiration Lounge is a tool for cross pollinating ideas between all facets of design and applying design thinking into all industries. March 28, 2012. 7PM The Glass Corner 25 E !3th …
BFA AD Studio II: Site Specificity, Material Systems, and Human Scale
Led by BFA AD faculty Nick Brinen, the 2012 Undergraduate Architecture Studio II will develop a design proposal that incorporates issues of site specificity, material systems, and human scale. The format of the course will allow for an exploratory design process, which methodically increases in complexity as the problem changes …
Product Design Director Rama Chorpash Honored as Rising Star by Elle Décor
Elle Decor has named Parsons Product Design Director Rama Chorpash as one of the 20 talents shaping design today. In addition to his role as an educator, Chorpash is a noted designer whose work explores the contemporary social use and production through the design of benchmark products, environments, furniture, …
Lee Gibson (MFA ID ’12) designs #searchunderoccupy at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries March 1 – April 1, 2012 #searchunderoccupy is a participatory initia tive that explores the implications and ambiguities of Occupy Wall Street as a “living archive.” Occupy Wall Street (OWS), like other social and political movements of our time, is …
INSIDE (hi) STORIES: Zeynep Turan Hoffman, March 5 6PM
Zeynep Turan Hoffman, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Research Fellow, MEMEAC, The CUNY Graduate Center and Research Associate at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, Bryn Mawr College THE MATERIAL CULTURE LENS: PLACE, OBJECTS, AND NARRATIVES Monday, March 5th, 6.15pm Glass Corner, 25 E13th street, 2nd floor Zeynep Turan …
2012 Kalil Project Grants Announced
Three $5000 Grants awarded for 2012: Student Grant, Collaborative Student Team Grant, Scholar/Practitioner Grant
Nathalie Rozot, MFA Lighting Design Faculty, receives Graham Foundation Fellowship
Nathalie Rozot was selected as the recipient of the 2011-2012 Graham Foundation Fellowship in Architecture at the MacDowell Colony. This Fellowship was established through the Foundation’s 2011 grant to support the creation of new work at the Colony that explores intersections between art and architecture. While in residency, Nathalie created …
MFA Lighting Design students design lighting for Where Do We Migrate To? Exhibition
As part of the Sheila Johnson Design Center public programming, lighting design students conduct a light “focusing” exercise to assure the gallery lighting supports the aesthetic and curatorial interests of the exhibition. As well, this offers students tangible hands on experience dealing with luminaires, light sources and optics. This particular …
Parsons and Milano Students Tackle Housing Crisis for the Homeless with L.A.’s Skid Row Housing Trust
This spring, The New School, led by SCE and the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, is partnering with the Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization that develops, manages and operates homes for the homeless. Students will be applying their knowledge of finance …