New Schoolers Named Fulbright U.S. Student Finalists – Nelson Ubri, BFA Architecture ’15 Nelson Ubri, BFA Architecture ’15 is one of the five students that The New School is excited to announce to have the opportunity to pursue work as a finalist in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Ubri, the recipient of …

Paraguay: Puerto Casado: genealogies (1886-201?) In June 2016, the School of Constructed Environments in collaboration with the Marie-Curie fellowship program of the European Union, two students from Parsons School of Design travelled from New York to Paraguay.  Students participated in an “artists and social scientists in residence” workshop in Puerto …

Congratulations to former BFA Interior Design student, Jia Lun Wu.  Jia Lun Wu won the IDA gold medal for her Interior Design final year project. Please see link below to view project. https://idesignawards.com/winners/zoom2.php?eid=9-12559-16

Led by Parsons faculty member and alumnus Chad Groshart, six students in the Parsons’ Lighting for Developing Countries class traveled 1,500 miles from their New York City classroom to the remote mountain village of Gran Sous to help locals develop, source, and install solar-powered lighting fixtures on five 25-foot-tall poles. …

Every year, the university recognizes a group of faculty members who have been nominated by their students and colleagues as Distinguished University Teachers. These faculty members embody the highest standards for teaching and advancing The New School’s mission and vision through their remarkable capacity to inspire critical engagement with ideas …

In spring 2016, undergraduate students from The New School’s Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and Schools of Public Engagement collaborated with the NYC DOT on the City’s Street Seats initiative as part of the “Design Build” course. The Design Challenge: to create an innovative and inviting public seating …

This summer I had the opportunity to visit Lagos, Nigeria. My colleague Dhafar Al-Edani and I were hosted by Shola Ajayi, the Head Coordinator of UR4Africa, a social enterprise that focuses on coordinating safe spaces for creative learning. We were facilitators of design workshops for the organization mentors and students, …

Innovative arcade-style game has received numerous positive reviews in the technology press.

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 …

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