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Design Workshop 2012 Kickstarter campaign: Highbridge in_flux

Please donate and be a part of our efforts to build in_flux. All donations are tax-deductible and 96% will go towards purchasing the materials to build this project! You may also decline to receive benefits and will thus see that 100% of your contribution goes to the construction of in_flux.


Ionanna Theocharopolou participates in panel, “Debating Design & Innovation in Times of Crisis” at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Addressing the viewpoint of the client, the architect, and the society, this panel rethinks through the example of Greece the role of innovation, entrepreneurship, and design in times of economical crisis and social upheavals.


The Architect’s Newspaper reports on SCE Temporary Environments studio

Students from 5 programs participate in Moorhead & Moorhead’s course to create a soft structure from Carnegie’s Xorel


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 faculty Aaron White’s essay, The Grid and its Guises, published in Urban Omnibus

Isn’t the most fascinating thing about the grid really our fascination with it? The grid can be described in a paragraph and understood at a glance, but that has not kept us from spending the 200 years since 1811 accounting and re-accounting for it. A merely objective investigation would have exhausted this subject long ago, suggesting that when we talk about the grid we’re really talking about almost anything but…


SCE Thesis Exhibtion, opening 15 May 6-8PM

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: This exhibition of graduating students’ work includes drawings, models, and prototypes from the architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design programs at Parsons. The exhibition takes place in the studio space created by the Parsons Design Workshop—its signature design-build program—where work desks and adjacent …


SCE at ICFF: Temporary Environments Studio and Carnegie Fabrics, opening 22 May

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Students examine the relatively underexplored realm of designing space with soft structures in a collaborative installation at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) for an exhibit sponsored by Carnegie Fabrics. This project is the culmination of the course taught by Moorhead and Moorhead using …


SCE Year in Review Pecha Kucha, 15 May 4-6 PM

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons celebrates the year with an informal Pecha Kucha-style presentation of the year’s most important work from its graduate, undergraduate, and associate’s programs, as well as special Project Labs such as the Design Workshop and the Empowerhouse Solar Decathlon …


Flatpack Chair Exhibition opening 5 May 6-8PM: BFA Product Design

PART OF PARSONS FESTIVAL 2012: Parsons’ Product Design Flat-Pack Studio, led by faculty member Mark Bechtel, challenged students to design a piece of furniture that would flat-pack to fit within the dimensions of a UPS box or tube. The project includes the design and construction of a full-scale working furniture …