Two years ago, students from Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology worked together to design “Empowerhouse” as an entry for the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.  And now, Lakiya Culley and her three sons are living in the duplex home built by Habitat for …

Students in the temporary environments class, taught by notable design firm Moorhead & moorhead, explored recycled paperboard supplied by The Homasote Company for an installation at WantedDesign 2013.

The SCE Color Lab Course, led by Helen Quinn, recently partnered with Benjamin Moore to bring more color into a seating area to the 12thfloor of 6 East 16th Street.

Junior Product Design student, Jenny Hsu, recently documented her experience working on a class project in Core 77 Design Magazine.

Ruth Shuman, president and founder of Publicolor, gave a lecture to SCE students last Friday, April 5, 2013.

Last December, the Design Observer blog featured a series of architectural fairy tales designed by Parsons SCE faculty members Andrew Bernheimer, Jing Liu, Emily Abruzzo, and Gerald Bodziak.

Associate Professor of Architecture, Peter Wheelwright, released a work of fiction that has been selected as a Hemingway/PEN Award Honorable Mention. The novel, As It Is On Earth, tells the story of a college professor, struggling to come to terms with his family’s difficult past.

Andy Bernheimer of the School of Constructed environments will be jurying the Little Free Libraries/New York Project. This competition will award ten design teams with $1000 to design and create small-scale libraries to house books. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 4, 2013.

Parsons The New School for Design and the MFA Lighting Design program is proud to support the Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC 2013, as a Partner University.

Cross-Disciplinary design practice that considers an holistic approach to complex design relationships is essential to successful projects in the constructed world that we inhabit. As part of our educational mission at SCE, we believe that forming curricula that teaches students the roots of unique disciplinary skills through a supportive, empathetic and collaborative design process that includes multiple cognate disciplines is critical to ensure that their future professional work embodies these traits.