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Design Workshop Summer 2012 – Volunteers needed!

The Design Workshop 2012 is seeking students to volunteer for the summer portion of the Highbridge in_flux project. Students would be aiding the Design Workshop team in constructing the project throughout the Summer semester. Stipends are available. 3 Credits will be rolled into the Fall semester.


Wedgwood Award for Best Presentation to Product Design Senior Jarong Koo

Parsons students were invited to participate in the fourth annual Wedgwood competition. Seth Nagelberg and his Ceramic Design 1 course visited the Waterford Wedgwood Showroom to receive the design brief in February. This years theme, “What is old is new” asked students to look back at Wedgwood’s 254 year history …


SCE Students participate in charrette with Yabu Pushelberg

A group of students from the School of Constructed Environments recently participated in a weekend-long workshop with Glenn Pushelberg and six senior designers from interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg to design the lobby of a Tribeca hotel.


Junior BFA ID students Hayden Manders and Meredith Woolfolk win The Decorators Club Education Fund Scholarship Award

We are proud to announce that Junior BFA ID students Hayden Manders and Meredith Woolfolk were awarded First Prize of $6000 for outstanding student achievement in Interior Design, April 12, 2012 by The Decorators Club Education Fund,Inc. Scholarship Award. The award was for their co-housing project from fall 2011 in …


Senior BFA AD/ID students and graduate students from Milano’s Finance Lab meet with the HANDS Organization

Senior BFA AD/ID students and graduate students from Milano’s Finance Lab, traveled to Orange Monday March 19th to meet with the HANDS organization and a number of local Orange residents.  HANDS is exploring an adaptive reuse of the First Orange Presbyterian Church sanctuary and educational buildings.  We toured the buildings …


Lee Gibson (MFAID ’12) chosen as designer for nightclub sponsored by Heineken

Lee was selected to create a “boundary-breaking concept club” to debut at the Milan Furniture Fair 2012


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


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 …


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 …