Special Projects



MFA Lighting Design students design lighting for Where Do We Migrate To? Exhibition

As part of the Sheila Johnson Design Center public programming, lighting design students conduct a light “focusing” exercise to assure the gallery lighting supports the aesthetic and curatorial interests of the exhibition.  As well, this offers students tangible hands on experience dealing with luminaires, light sources and optics.  This particular …


Parsons and Milano Students Tackle Housing Crisis for the Homeless with L.A.’s Skid Row Housing Trust

This spring, The New School, led by SCE and the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, is partnering with the Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization that develops, manages and operates homes for the homeless. Students will be applying their knowledge of finance …


Lionel Ohayon appointed visiting practitioner faculty in MFA Interior Design – Spring 2012

Founder and President of ICRAVE, an inventive multidisciplinary Manhattan based design firm, plans to engage students in designing Experiences


Moorhead & Moorhead Bring their material curiosity to SCE/Parsons

In partnership with Carnigie fabrics students in Moorhead and Morehead’s course will exhibit a soft structure environment at ICFF in may 2012


(Un)Anaticipated Futures Symposium 2012

(Un)Anticipated Futures is an international Symposium bringing together research from three universities – Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, The New School in New York, and University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. This international collaboration brings together historians, social researchers, and designers in a context of unprecedented economic and ecological uncertainty.  As …


Lo Cal City publication

Lo Cal City is a publication by the 2011 SCE M.Arch Thesis Class.


“After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design” Book Launch

2 February, Thursday 5:30-6:30pm
The Glass Corner (room 206), 25 East 13th Street


Student team chosen for Solar Decathlon 2011 competition

Excerpt from The New School press release: The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) has selected finalists in the 2011 Solar Decathlon. Among the elite teams moving on is one led by Parsons The New School for Design, which worked on its proposal with students and faculty from Milano The New …


Design Competition for the New York City AIDS Memorial Park Campaign

The New York City AIDS Memorial Park Campaign is hosting a design competition with Architectural Record and Architizer for a new park and memorial.


Kalil Grant ‘Intention to Submit’ Registration Deadline Dec 2

The Collaborative Team Grant category is widened to include any Parsons student group working together from within one or across any number of programs at Parsons or the New School.