Interior Design studio courses often revolve around a specific design challenge. Our AAS Parsons second semester design studio selected the city’s neighborhood library as our focus. In particular we asked Interior Design students to challenge the traditional models of libraries in relation to the emerging technologies of virtuality and computing. …

Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …

Congratulations to the Core77 winners! Student Winner, Strategy and Research: Nonliving Stakeholders by Sungmy Kim, MFA Transdisc Design Student Notable, Furniture and Lighting: Cada series by Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design Student Notable, Visual Communications: Tit for Tat by Yunjoo Lee, BFA Communication Design For more information on the Parsons graduates that participated please click HERE!

The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …

MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan’s BOBO bamboo toy was selected for the NYC x Design Awards at MoMA. The Awards, created by Interior Design magazine and the ICFF, highlight New York-based projects completed throughout the year. Matthew’s BOBO bamboo toy was a project developed in the Global Production studio, taught …

BFA Product Design Senior Sofia Frilund was the winner of the 2017 Student Merit Award for the NE District of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Frilund was selected to represent Parsons and competed against 10 other design schools, presenting projects from 3 years of study in the Product Design …

In collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the Design Build course of the School of Constructed Environments, taught by professors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, has developed this year’s Street Seats project for the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue. The DOT Street Seats program reclaims …

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PROGRAM OF THE YEAR (NON-STUDENT GROUP)   This award is presented to the students who are responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative program that significantly contributed to The New School during the academic year. Congratulations to Sam Bennett and Sarah Burns! Sam and Sarah assisted in organizing …

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