Two Artists Built a spinning house, and then moved in which sits upon a concrete pillar at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y. The house spins and tilts with the wind, and the weight of its inhabitants. The 40-by-8-foot Modernist structure was a living space for Schweder and Shelley …

Hye Min (Pabi) Lee of Parsons The New School has been awarded the Donghia Scholarship. Please read full story by clicking on the link below. Donghia Scholarship Recipient

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

Essay, Collecting and Disseminating Knowledge on the Architecture of the Megacity written by Professor Brian McGrath has been published in the journal Urbanisation. Urbanisation aims to publish comparative as well as collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship that will illuminate the global urban condition beginning with a firm footprint in the Global South, specifically …

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. …

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, …

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 …

Making Center Workshops An ongoing goal at Parsons is to support learning beyond the classroom. The making facilities across the University serve as spaces for experiential and cross-disciplinary learning through hands-on practice, allowing students from varying departments and disciplines to work side-by-side, informing each other along the way. The Making …