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“Plant-In City” is an art installation of modular, stack-able terrariums that will evoke human architecture and technology, inspired by life in New York City. One of our goals is to live a more sustainable lifestyle. This begins by bringing nature inside to our everyday urban environment.

We spent a semester designing—and redesigning—our project for the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Now we’re ready to build it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 …

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…

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 …