The Architectural League’s new initiative, “Reimagine”, is a workshop welcoming design graduates from the Class of 2020 to re-evaluate their role as designers and architects in understating and shaping space amidst converging and ongoing crises of COVID-19, climate change, racism and economic inequality. Selected graduates from architecture, landscape architecture, and …

Congratulations to Zac Pepere, BFA Product Design alumnus, whose work has been recently featured in the Graduate Design section of Wallpaper Magazine. Named “Material Values”, his project focuses on value we attribute to different materials and challenges contemporary attributions through creative reuse of paper and food by-products from the restaurant …

Angran Li graduated in 2016 from the Interior Design BFA program.   Three years after finishing at Parsons, she moved to LA and received an MFA degree in Film Production Design at the American Film Institute. Upon graduating, she received an offer from Star Trek Discovery’s production designer to become …

Can luxury be sustainable? Sustainability is not a luxury — it is a necessity. While some companies around the world have been shifting gears and making sustainability their language(s), Parsons design community is on a path to crack it open… Starting from the hair care products on our shelves. This …

The New School’s Centennial Festival and the Tishman Environment and Design Center will be hosting a screening of Surviving Progress, a documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.   From the filmmakers:   ‘Technological advancement, economic development, population increase – are they signs of a thriving …

The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons is pleased to announce the ribbon cutting for two Parsons Design Workshop projects created in collaboration with the Trust for Governor’s Island: Pagganuck and the Lab at Urban Farm.   The opening will celebrate the culmination of a two-year partnership with TGI, and …

We are very sorry to share with you the news that Aaron Lown, Product Design ‘91, has passed away. On behalf of Parsons, we extend our sympathies to Aaron’s family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time. Aaron was a dedicated maker, who started his journey in Parsons’ first graduating …

Wei Hsiang Chiu and Meizhu Li, Parsons Industrial Design alumni, have become The Core 77 Award honorees in the Furniture and Lighting category.   To complete his project, “Beer Stools,” Wei worked with local breweries to explore the issues of waste production and recycling, and test how spent grains, organic waste from …

SCE faculty Brian McGrath has received a Graham Foundation Award with Sereypagna Pen, former SCE Visiting Scholar from Cambodia. Brian and Sereypagna’s research project , “Genealogy of Bassac,” presents an architectural study of an area in downtown Phnom Penh from the perspectives of artists and residents who have lived through …

SCE Faculty Matt Burgermaster has been awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. The MacDowell Colony is one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations and supports artistic excellence by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary talent to exchange ideas and pursue creative work. During his summer residency, Matt will be making a series …