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NYCxDesign Award Winners – Five of SCE’s first-year MFA Industrial Design students have won in the “student” category

The 2022 NYCxDESIGN Awards Finalists Have been Announced Interior Design is excited to announce the finalists for this year’s NYCxDESIGN Awards. This year’s NYCxDESIGN Awards Ceremony, hosted by editor in chief Cindy Allen, will take place in-person at The Landing, 1 Pennsylvania Plaza on Tuesday, May 10th.  Join us at the …


The Radically Inclusive Studio: an open access conversation between New York, Cape Town, and Brisbane, co-authored chapter contribution by Michele Gorman

Parsons School of Constructed Environments Faculty Michele Gorman co-authored chapter contribution published in Routeledge’s Companion to Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South:  “The Radically Inclusive Studio: an open access conversation on inclusive practices within the architecture studio”. co-authored with Michele Gorman (US), Jolanda Morkel (South Africa), Lindy Osborne Burton (Australia), …


MFA ID Director, Michele Gorman, selected as advisor for Kaleidoverse Metaverse contest

MFA ID Director, Michele Gorman, selected as advisor for Kaleidoverse Metaverse contest. She discusses the future of interiors in the Metaverse, discussing inclusive pedagogy and spaces of belonging. Full link here.


The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library will host designer, researcher, and part-time faculty member Sarah Templin as a Maker-Creator Fellow this summer.

Winterthur’s collection of historic furniture is ripe with examples that demonstrate historical methods known to reduce the carbon footprint, exemplify traditional making techniques that may be adapted for contemporary manufacturing, and represent historical precedents of contemporary sustainable design theories such as “design for the circular economy” or “design for disassembly”. …


A Decarbonized & Decolonized Dinner Party: SCE & School of Fashion Earth Day Exhibition

Friday, April 22, 2022, 6:00PM to 9:00PM (EDT) A Decarbonized & Decolonized Dinner Party Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 2 W 13th Street, 4th Floor Please join us for a carbon free “Dinner Party” on April 22nd, Earth Day. This interdisciplinary exhibition and performative event asks big questions on socially just approaches to the future of eating …


SCE Public Program: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore

SCE Public Programs Presents: Design in a Post-Colonial Context: Singapore Thursday, April 7 7-8pm EST Zoom Link   Hosted By: Yu Nong Khew, Dir. BFA ID Program; Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects and Technology Cotter Christian, Assoc. Dean SCE; Assistant Prof. of Interior Design What does it mean to design …


SCE Public Program: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting

SCE Public Programs Presents: Toward Carbon-Efficient Lighting Tuesday March 29, 2022 12-1:30pm EST Access a recording of the event Here. Hosted by: Glenn Shrum, IALD, Associate Professor of Lighting Design and Interdisciplinary Practice, Parsons School of Design / Founding Principal, Flux Studio Nearly 5% of current global CO2 emissions are …


MFA Industrial Design student Nifemi Ogunro Recognized by Dezeen

To celebrate Black History Month 2022, Dezeen asked 12 renowned Black architects and designers to select a fellow Black contemporary who deserves greater recognition. Each of the established architects and designers was asked to nominate another Black creative, as a way of championing Black architecture and design. MFA Industrial Design student …


Congratulations, Fall 2021 Graduands!

SCE would like to congratulate its Fall 2021 AAS Interior Design graduands. The AAS Interior Design student, known as career changers, overcomes many obstacles to follow their passion, leveraging previous formal education and life-learning to enter a profession dedicated to helping shape the human experience in the constructed environment. The …


Mark Your Calendars: IDEC in NYC in March 2022

The Interior Design Educators Council, IDEC, Annual Conference will be held in New York City, March 2 to 4th, 2022. The Reconnect, Recalibrate 2022 conference will focus on systems thinking, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Hosting “300-400 members, educators, practitioners, and graduate students…the Annual Conference provides opportunities for dissemination of research …