The World Around is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to making the best ideas in architecture accessible to all. Its Young Climate Prize aims to amplify and accelerate the impact of projects for climate resilience by pairing 25 young climate leaders under 25 years old with their own mentor from the …

Fabian Malmhagen, an MFA Industrial Design student has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Green Good Design award for his piece: Last Chance.    Last Chance is about directing materials away from the landfill and creating furniture from them. It is about hindering the use of any virgin materials as much …

On April 20th, MFA Industrial Designstudent, Jessica Thies, spoke about her thesis work at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. As a part of The Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology Symposium, she was on the Sustainable & Smart Fashion panel along with another student and faculty from FIT.

SCE Faculty Rama Chorpash is participating in a Virtual Panel Discussion called Designing Change at the Museum of Vancouver as part of the Why I Design series. MOV is hosting this online panel inspired by the provocative messages and design elements of Tobias Wong’s art – featured artist in the All We Want …

Andy Bernheimer, Associate Professor of Architecture, received the AIANY Medal of Honor award at the Annual Award Lunch, April 20, 2023.  The Medal of Honor, conferred by AIANY since 1914, is the Chapter’s highest form of recognition. It acknowledges an architect or firm of architects for distinguished work and high professional …

Parsons first year lighting students Anirudh Anand, Priyanka Shah and Aarohi Mittal win Grand Prize for their project “Beyond the Veil” and Wan-Chien (Shelly) Lin won Honorable Mention for “Bio-Shimmer”. “Beyond the Veil” celebrates and laments the fleeting moments of interaction that we all share with millions of other city …

Each year, Metropolis sets out to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada. The program, sponsored by Armstrong, Daltile, Formica, Interface, Kawneer, Keilhauer, Sherwin-Williams, and Yabu Pushelberg, invited the most talented students from the class of 2023 to apply. “Supporting the next …

In the 22nd Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, will discuss what several affordable housing projects in New York City have taught him about architecture’s role in addressing housing-related challenges. His firm, Bernheimer Architecture (BA), is committed to “designing sustainable and resilient architecture by crafting productive environments for …

12-2pm Eastern Standard Time and Peru Time / 6 – 8pm Central European Time / 7-9 South Africa Standard Time  Click HERE to register. “For most of history, nature has been invaded, subjugated, exploited, scarred and deeply altered. Forests were devoured to create the ships that colonised the world. Wars …

Shrooes are a footwear design which collaborates with living mycelium to bond with a knitted textile upper. Mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, are sentient organisms which can bond with textile materials. As footwear today uses synthetic foams, are constructed with toxic adhesives, and unable to biodegrade, I am exploring …