Public Programs



Andrew Bernheimer, “Where is the Architecture? Finding Design and Community Amidst Constraints”

In the 22nd Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, will discuss what several affordable housing projects in New York City have taught him about architecture’s role in addressing housing-related challenges. His firm, Bernheimer Architecture (BA), is committed to “designing sustainable and resilient architecture by crafting productive environments for …


“On Hope” featuring Nishan Kazazian, AIA at King’s College

On March 10, 2023,  Nishan Kazazian will be presenting via zoom with the British Psychoanalytical Society  in Collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College, London as part of the ‘Questioning the Obvious’ series, “On Hope”. Dostoevsky was emphatic about hope: “To live without hope is to cease to live. …


From Field to Form: An Introduction to Building with Plants and Earth

David J. Lewis, Dean of SCE, and Jonsara Ruth, Design Director, Healthy Materials Lab, is forming, alongside Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Lola Ben Alon Yona, and Mae-Ling Lokko, the introductory event of this important series, From Field to Form, next Wednesday, February 15th at 7:00pm at the Scholastic Auditorium. From …


Open Restaurants Innovation: 3 Teams Share Findings

This public event, which marks the official end of the Open Restaurants Innovation program, will feature presentations by three teams who have been working directly with multiple stakeholders, including restaurateurs, disability advocates, and city agency staff, to determine recommendations for the city’s permanent outdoor dining program. Open Restaurants Innovation is …


SCE Student Council Launches Podcast “Table Talks”

SCE Student Council has launched a new podcast series called Table Talks. The podcast hosts discussions with faculty, industry professionals, and students of different disciplines.  Table Talks was created and inspired by the ethos of conversations that naturally accrue in studio spaces of collaboration. We wanted to create a space to capture those discussions …


Parsons SCE Lighting Design Announced as ROLAN 2022 University Partner

Responsible Outdoor Lighting at Night Conference (ROLAN 2022)  Bringing together the foremost researchers and practitioners, the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) and Assistant Professor Dr. Karolina M. Zielinska‐Dabkowska, ILLUME/Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland are launching the inaugural international Responsible Outdoor Lighting at Night (ROLAN) conference, taking place online on …


SCE Online Public Program: Black Neighborhoods Matter

SCE Public Programs Presents “Black Neighborhoods Matter” in partnership with AIANYC. This event was held on: May 4, 2022 7:30PM to 9:00PM Access the recording Here. The “Decolonizing Suburbia” installation, now on view at the Center for Architecture, explores the architectural typologies that can result in a new, more accessible commons in …


MFA Lighting Design Faculty Glenn Shrum discusses Lighting Education on “Get A Grip” Podcast

Associate Professor of Lighting Design Glenn Shrum discussed how to obtain credentials as a lighting designer on Episode 252 of “Get a Grip on Lighting” Podcast.     “How do you gain credentials as a lighting designer? You go and learn under Henrik or Glenn. Our host and his guest talk …


SCE Public Program: Crossing Disciplines with Computational Tools and Methodologies

SCE Public Programs Presents Assistant Director of Product Design Mark Bechtel in Conversation with Arturo Tedeschi   Arturo Tedeschi is a computational design specialist with more than ten years of experience in the avant-garde segment of architecture and industrial design.  He coined the definition Algorithms-Aided Design (ADD) with his homonymous book published in …


SCE MArch Faculty David Leven Hosts Book Talk for New Publication

SCE Associate Professor of Architecture David Leven (Partner, LEVENBETTS) with Stella Betts (Partner, LEVENBETTS) and co-author Thomas de Monchaux host a Book Talk & Signing for their new book, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House. Thursday April 14, 6-8pm 25 E 13th St, E206 (Glass Corner) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House is a …


MFA ID Professor Co-organizes Conference with NSSR

MFA ID Faculty Member Eva Perez de Vega is co-organizing a conference with the New School Social Research, featuring presenters from the MFA ID Program. Find out more Here.   Conference: WITH/IN ENVIRONMENTS REIMAGINING FRAMEWORKS AND PRACTICES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY Description of overall conference: Since Plato, western philosophy has been …


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 …


SCE Students and Faculty featured at IDEC Annual Conference 2022

2022 Virtual Annual Conference Reconnect + Recalibrate March 1-4   This year’s conference is an opportunity for interior design educators, students and stakeholders to reconnect, share scholarship, learn about new teaching practices, forge industry partnerships, and explore opportunities for collaboration. The 2022 conference seeks to foreground our individual and collective …


AIANY Virtual Student Roundtable ft. SCE M.Arch Student

AIANY Virtual Student Roundtable Saturday, 02/26/2022, from 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM The AIA New York Architecture Student Roundtable will convene student leaders in student government, AIAS, and NOMAS from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture to discuss various topics including race, gender, equity, disruptions, and labor. M.Arch Candidate Olivia Haley-Schmitt will be representing …


MFA ID DESIGN STUDIO 3 EXHIBITION + SHOW

MFA ID DESIGN STUDIO 3 EXHIBITION Please join us next Thursday, December 9th, for the Design Studio 3 exhibition. The Fall semester marks the beginning of  thesis research for second-year students at the MFA in Interior Design program. In this context, Design Studio 3 becomes a space for spatial, formal, and material …


Keynote Lecture by Emmanuel Pratt, Sweet Water Foundation

Emmanuel Pratt is an urban designer creating a model of resident-driven community development in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment. Pratt is co-founder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side that engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration …


SCE Climate Colloquium | November 11

Climate Colloquium Invitation  Please join this Thursday for the SCE Climate Colloquium. While unusual, this is a day-long, all-school event aligned with COP26 so students, faculty, and staff can collective focus attention to the existential threat, persistent presence, and unjust impact of the global climate crisis.  And, equally, to embrace and …


A Conversation with Actor + Director Daniel Wu

A Conversation with Actor + Director Daniel Wu: What I Learned in Design School On October 28, the Interior Design program at Parsons School of Constructed Environments hosted an online discussion with actor, director, and producer Daniel Wu about how studying architecture influenced his career in film. Daniel has 78 …


Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of Great Power Competition

SCE would like to bring your attention to India China Institute‘s upcoming public event on October 14th on Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of Great Power Competition.  This talk has been organized in part at the behest of various New School faculty members, as evidenced through this group emails and …


Town Hall | Climate Mobilization

New York Passive House invites SCE faculty and students to reimagine the future of New York City buildings at a Passive House Town Hall. The event will include presentations and panel discussions featuring key policy-makers, designers, and developers, as well as interactive sessions addressing the urgency of Local Law 97. …


‘Revealing NYC’ Seminar

TNS’s summer seminar Revealing NYC is pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming lecture on Food and Justice. How, during a crisis, do individuals and communities come together to support and nourish each other? We will hear from the founders of Feed the Frontlines NYC and co-op members from …


Design Talks | The Deans’ Table – Compassionate Leadership: Facing crisis with heart

The Deans’ Table | Compassionate Leadership: Facing crisis with heart ft. Dr. Robert Kirkbride We will remember this period in time for the rest of our lives. We witnessed a global pandemic, national calls for racial reckoning and social justice, and a significant presidential election within a divisive political environment. …


Great Design Begins with Color, Presented by Wid Chapman and David Ling

Great Design Begins with Color as presented by Wid Chapman and David Ling Let’s discuss color and material choices in interior architectural design. Color is a force with the ability to change a space, a mood or even a mindset. This is especially true for architectural interior design, where there …


Dean Robert Kirkbride will join Trading Notes Panel

May 13th panel, Student Work Gets the Immersive Treatment, is hosted by the Architect’s Newspaper in partnership with Eventscape, and will feature Dean Robert Kirkbride as one of the panelists. This one-hour discussion will focus on how architecture schools have been adapting their end-of-year exhibitions for a digital format, providing new …


Gil Oberfield Lecture: Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects

This year’s Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture will feature Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects. Jaklitsch/Gardner is an award-winning design practice with an international reputation for design excellence, material research, and an exacting commitment to craft. Founded in 1998, the firm believes that design possesses the ability to communicate collective values, provide relevance, and create …


Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit”

This Friday, 4/23 from 12-1:30, Dean Kirkbride will moderate the Roundtable, “Pivots During the Pause”: Reconfiguring the “Ethnographic Toolkit” for a Pandemic, as part of The Memory Studies Group’s online conference, Suspended Present. Featuring presentations by three students from NSSR’s Department of Anthropology, the Roundtable is part of the annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021, hosted by The …


Mark Gardner Will Give a Talk on Buildings, Race, and History

Mark Gardner, Director of the Master of Architecture program, will give a talk at the National Arts Club on December 9th. He will be joined by his colleagues from other architectural practices for a conversation about important historical influences on their careers and projects, and visions for a more equitable …


IDSA Seminar with Sam Stewart

IDSA is hosting a seminar with guest speaker Sam Stewart on December 9th at 6pm. Sam is a New York based artist whose work resembles and functions as household furniture and domestic objects. As sculptures, they often take on animalistic qualities that border on the absurd and whimsical. Please note …


“Preserving Black History” Talk Featuring Mark Gardner

Join Monica Rhodes, Professor Randall Mason, and Mark Gardner for a conversation on preserving the legacy of civic rights history, and the creation of a new center at the Weitzman School focused on the preservation of civic rights sites. The talk will be hosted on November 12th at 12:00 PM …


SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster Presents at New Practices New York 2018 Lecture Series 

SCE faculty Matt Burgermaster will be presenting his work in a public lecture as part of the New Practices New York 2018 lecture series on Thursday, October 4th at 6:00 PM. Matt’s presentation will focus on recent design work by his office, MABU, that re-imagines traditional notions of waste, value, and change. It will include …


Upcoming lectures by Dean Kirkbride for Kirkbride Hospital Communities in US Midwest

In the second half of June 2018, Dean Robert Kirkbride will travel to two Midwest cities, Fergus Falls, Minnesota (June 16) and Athens, Ohio (June 23), where he will present on the historical significance of Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane and offer recent examples of their successful adaptive reuse.   …


Performance in NYC: A Conversation about Designing for a New Generation

A rendering of the renovated Helen Hayes Theater. Rockwell Group.   How does the design of performance space impact the creation of new work? How can that space transform the experience of the viewer? This program will look at how recent developments in theater design are incubating new forms of …


Publicness and Design Activism in China

  Parsons School of Constructed Environments Architecture Program co-hosted an Academic Salon with China’s Urbanism and Architecture magazine. The event was structured by three conversations, the first between Professor TANG Keyang, Southern University of Science and Technology and CHEN Yulin, Associate Professor Tsinghua University, the second conversation included 6 PhD …


Lunch Talk with Allan Ceen 3.1.18

Dr. Allan Ceen will present a talk titled, “Roman Cartography as Imago Urbis” Ceen has done extensive research on the maps of Rome with particular reference to the 1748 Giambattista Nolli map of the city. He teaches the history of the city by displaying the important information recorded in its …


Exclusive Talk with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

The New School is honored to invite you to an event with Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court, this Thursday 2/22 at 4:30 pm in the Orozco Room (66 West 12th, Room A712). Justice Cuéllar will give an informal talk titled “Adaptation Nation: Reflections on Immigration Policy, Social Change, and Federalism in the United States.” This is …


Lunch Talk with Architect Masashi Sogabe

Lunch Talk with MASASHI SOGABE Award-winning architect Masashi Sogabe will discuss how he addresses social issues, such as demographic change and natural disaster, through design. Sogabe has worked on numerous projects such as Toyota Group Pavilion at the Aichi Expo 2005 that received a Good Design Award, and the “mAAch …


How many ghosts can haunt a building at once?

Over the past several months, Dean Robert Kirkbride has been considering this question through a series of lectures, interviews and award-winning writing. When the building at question is one of the 34 remaining Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, which share the tragic legacy of a very real, very troubled past, …


‘THE AGE OF SUPER SENSING 2017’ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED SENSING DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

TOKYO STARTUP, SENSINGNET, INC. REVEALS LATEST AI ADVANCEMENTS AT  ‘THE AGE OF SUPER SENSING 2017’ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED SENSING DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY RSVP: http://sensingnet.co.jp/conference/ click on ‘Register Now’ Featured Experts on Wearable Human-Health Monitoring, Sustainable Biomaterials for Fashion Sensing & Wearable Tech, Regenerative Bio-tech, Robotics and Wireless Power Transfer & Battery-free Communication ……. …


Lunch and Learn with Thread – Wednesday, November 8th, 12:00-1:00pm

Lunch and Learn with Thread Event Details: Wednesday, November 8th, 12:00-1:00pm Donghia Gallery, 25 E 13th Street, 3rd Floor Thread transforms trash from the developing world into dignified jobs and sustainable fabrics. Come learn insights into their best practices and how they are working towards a healthier textile industry. Eventbrite …


J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture, “Monumental Matters | Public Space & Collective Memory”

Max Bond Jr. Lecture, “Monumental Matters | Public Space & Collective Memory”   WHEN: Friday, October 20th, 2017, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm WHERE: Center for Architecture, 536 Laguardia Place, New York, NY 10012 RSVP: Click HERE to RSVP   Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycobaNOMA) and the AIANY Diversity …


Dean Kirkbride to give two lectures on the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane

National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Museum exhibit: Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852-2017 October 26, 2017: Event details   Columbia University GSAPP, NY, NY Preservation Lecture Series November 2, 2017: Event details   How many ghosts can haunt a building at once? When the building at question is one of …


Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design ’17, Preserves Craft Techniques Through Parametric Modeling

Lisa Marks, MFA Industrial Design ’17, Preserves Craft Techniques Through Parametric Modeling. Parametric modeling is widely utilized by Western architects and designers, but the way Marks is using it is truly innovative. The technology can serve as a tool for both cultural preservation and job creation. Using mathematical inputs, designers can …


Prepare to Face-down The Elephant In The Room

Interior Design faculty, Cotter Christian, and Nadia Elrokhsy reflect on the IDEC (Interior Design Education Council) 2017 Annual Conference through the Spring 2017 IDEC Exchange, post-conference journal. The Annual Conference couldn’t have had a more appropriately noteworthy keynote speaker than Richard Buchanan. A professor of design and innovation, Buchanan is well …


Dean Kirkbride presents at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians

On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …


African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 22 At Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place NY, NY 10012) Please join for African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future explores the legacy of architectural modernism featured in the exhibition Architecture of Independence – African Modernism. It is vital to consider the complexity of …


Derek Porter to Speak at California State University, Long Beach

Derek Porter will speak at California State University, Long Beach as part of the Duncan Anderson Design Lecture Series. This lecture series invites professionals and academics from diverse design, architecture, science and manufacturing sectors to share ideas and experiences with students and faculty. For more information on the lecture series …


SCE Faculty Jieun Yang on Parallel Histories of Industrial Landscape in Russia and US

Tuesday, March 21, 6:00 – 8:00pm – Register HERE!  At the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place – Directions HERE!  Jieun Yang of Habitat Workshop will discuss her travel through post-industrial cities in Russia and a comparative look at American legacy cities funded by the CFA’s Le Brun grant. Beginning with the …


Product Design Faculty Tucker Viemeister and Steph Mantis to present at the 2017 IDSA NE Regional Conference

Product Design Faculty Tucker Viemeister and Steph Mantis to present at the 2017 IDSA NE Regional Conference Tucker Viemeister and Steph Mantis are two faculty from the BFA Product Design Program that come from different professional backgrounds and generations. However, when they teamed up in Fall 2016 to lead a …


Lunch + Learn_ECOVATIVE_ WEDNESDAY, March 15th

WE LUNCH + LEARN FROM 11:00 – 12:00! Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthy Materials Lab present the seventh in our series of Lunch + Learns with Ecovative Ecovative is a leading biomaterials company growing high performance, premium, award-winning products that are safe, healthy, and certified sustainable. Since 2007 the New York based company manufactures, and markets low embodied energy, compostable, …


Students in the Light-Space Art fall 2016 elective build art installation as part of Questioning Light public program

  The Light-Space Art class at Parsons created a temporary installation that was part of a public program titled Questioning Light. The site specific installation, titled Resonance, examined notions of time and body movement in conjunction with division, as the art work was installed in the middle of the presentation …


Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthier Materials Lab at Parsons present their fifth Lunch + Learn with Libeco Linen, Belgian linen

Lunch + Learn IV – Join us February 15th in the Donghia Gallery from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Donghia healthier Materials Library and the Healthier Materials Lab at Parsons present their fifth Lunch + Learn with Libeco Linen, Belgian linen   Libeco Linen is based in Meulebeke, Belgium – a small village – between Bruges and the French …


New lunch time series – Architecture and “X”

New lunch time series directed towards undergraduate and graduate architecture students in SCE entitled, Architecture & “X”. Each month the series will welcome an individual within the architectural field. Students will have the opportunity to listen in on these key note lectures followed by question and answer. Tuesday February 14th, 2017: …


JOB TALKS: Assistant Professor of Environmental Technology

Candidates for full-time faculty positions at Parsons give job talks, which are public, on-campus presentations to our faculty and staff. The job talks allow candidates to present themselves in the context of their research, scholarship, or creative practice, and pedagogical philosophy. Each candidate speaks for about thirty minutes, followed by …


Spring 2017 SCE Public Programs

The School of Constructed Environments is excited to relaunch the Spring 2017 SCE Public Programs! Please come and check out all of our Public Programs. All programs are open to students, faculty, alumni, and also open to the public.  


Current Work: Theaster Gates – Tonight at The New School!

Current Work: Theaster Gates – Tonight at The New School, 11/21! Date: Monday, November 21, 2016 Time: 7pm Location: University Center, 63 5th Ave; Tishman Auditorium Artist Theaster Gates speaks on his expanded practice, which includes space development, object making, performance, and critical engagement with many publics. Gates works with …


Current Work: Theaster Gates – Monday, November 21

Current Work: Theaster Gates Monday, November 21                 7:00 PM in John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center, The New School Artist Theaster Gates speaks on his expanded practice, which includes space development, object making, performance, and critical engagement with many publics. Gates works with …


Lunch + Learns for 2016 with Forbo Flooring Systems, featuring Marmoleum Flooring

Donghia healthier Materials Library and Healthy Materials Lab present the third and final in our series of Lunch + Learns for 2016 with Forbo Flooring Systems, featuring Marmoleum Flooring. Marmoleum, natural linoleum is biobased, highly durable, non-toxic, anti-microbial and easy to maintain. Forbo marmoleum floors are associated with sustainability, durability, high quality and innovative design with …


Beyond Boundaries: Examining Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion in Design

Beyond Boundaries: Examining Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion in Design Oct 18th at Center for Architecture (600-8:00pm) A forum gathered to examine and discuss issues of diversity in design, both in terms of current challenges & prospective drivers of change and progress.The panelist included Mark Gardner, AIA, NOMA Asst Professor, …


Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Remembered – Robert Kirkbride to speak

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Remembered: Its Architectural and Cultural Significance, Its Loss, and Implications for Other Historic Psychiatric Institutions – October 2016 is the one year anniversary of the demolition of Greystone Psychiatric Hospital. Why does Greystone remain so significant?  Greystone’s Last Stand: ‘As it is with most preservation efforts — The …


Cybernetic Urbanism: Managing (with) The Unmanageable City

Cybernetic Urbanism: Managing (with) The Unmanageable City Speaker: Tim Jachna Place: 25 East 13th ST. Room: E206 Time: 7:00pm-8:00pm Date: October 5, 2016 The presentation given by Jachna will sketch out some possible elements of a second-order cybernetic perspective on the city and demonstrate some consequences and applications of this way …


Integrative Design: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability

Join us for a discussion with 7group’s John Boecker on integrative design concepts and case studies, and learn steps toward implementing this approach. SCHEDULE 6:00 – 6:30pm  Registration and Reception 6:30 – 8:00pm  Presentation and Discussion moderator Clare Miflin, RA, LEED AP BD+C, Certified Passive House Designer Architect, Kiss + …


Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2

Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane: Part 2 A Book Launch, Panel Discussion and Video Screenings with SCE Dean Robert Kirkbride, Rusty Tagliareni, Christina Mathews + guests Date: Monday, September 19th Time: 7pm Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn Event link: http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/kirkbride-hospitals-for-the-insane-part-2-a-book-launch-panel-discussion-and-video-screenings-with-robert-kirkbride-rusty-tagliareni-and-christina-mathews/   In this follow-up to a …


Waste Not: Poreform

SCE presents, Waste Not 7: Poreform, hosted by Andrew Bernheimer, Director of Master of Architecture at Parsons, and presented by Amy Mielke, co-founder of Water Pore Partnership. Poreform is a design proposal for a new type of water infrastructure that reveals an in-situ desire to capture runoff and flood water for reuse in our …


Waste Not: Cyclifiers

In this talk, Jan Jongert shows Superuse Studios developing from a design office using waste flows into a multidisciplinary creative studio exploring the circular economy. He shows how realizing small scale design, buildings, start-ups, collaborative networks, urban plans and digital tools contribute to the development of a new resource-based design …


Waste Not: Shaping The Public: Social Machines. Working Over Conflict.

The School of Constructed Environments (SCE) at Parsons presents, Waste Not 5: Shaping The Public: Social Machines. Working Over Conflict., presented by Alejandro Haiek of Lab.Pro.Fab. The Public Machinery, an applied research project, focuses its research in the environment, the objects, and in human practices. The Public Machinery is interested in: different kinds of ecologies, the reprogram …


Unpacking Diversity: Politics/Economics

Social diversity as a value may be applied toward the goal of achieving an equitable society. The means to achieve this goal attain social justice “in all aspects for all people” requires the diversification of political and economic access to government; income production; land; and the production of space–most critically …


Waste Not: Placemaking & Sustainability in the Public Realm

SCE presents, Waste Not 4: Placemaking and Sustainability in the Public Realm, presented by Anthony Deen, Part-time Assistant Professor and Mike Boylan, Part-time Lecturer at Parsons. The development of a new suite of public furniture for Central Park, that try to address sustainability and the creation of a coherent sense of place through product …


Waste Not: all(zone)

SCE presents, Waste Not 3: all(zone), hosted by Brian McGrath, Dean of SCE, and presented by Rachaporn Choochuey, co-founder of all(zone). Based in Bangkok, all(zone) is a group of happy design professionals who joyfully collaborate with specialists across the borders of their fields and country. They are fascinated by the ever-changing mega metropolis …


Waste Not: The Social Meaning of Light

SCE presents, Waste Not 2: The Social Meaning of Light, hosted by Craig Brenecker, Associate Professor of Lighting Design, and presented by Toby Cumberbatch, Professor of Electrical Engineering. This talk will discuss some of the technical and social challenges associated with lighting off the electrical grid. Results will be presented from work with a culturally adaptable, …


Pressure Cooker Urbanism: Density, Growth, and Gambling in Macau

SDS & SCE present, Pressure Cooker Urbanism: Density, Growth, and Gambling in Macau – Land reclamation in Macau has a long and tortuous history, pressured by political exigencies, economic crises, demographic pressures, and cultural ambitions, giving rise to an erratic series of well-intentioned projects that were all too often cancelled, compromised, or abandoned …


Waste Not: Passive House

SCE presents, Waste Not 1: Passive House, hosted by David White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Technology and Material Sciences, featuring architects, Paul Castrucci, Julie Torres Moskovitz, and Michael Ingui. The Passive House standard, the world’s most stringent energy efficiency standard, first came to the US in 2005. Since then, NYC has become …


Unpacking Diversity: Culture/Representation

A series of events on the the theme of examining (or unpacking) diversity specifically in design related fields.


Vertical Urban Factory with Nina Rappaport

The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons presents Nina Rappaport, author and curator of Vertical Urban Factory; Rama Chorpash, Director of MFA Industrial Design at Parsons, whose creative-practice focuses on Making in Place; Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics, The New School; and Sonam Velani, Policy Advisor to the Deputy Mayor …


Robert Kirkbride to Lead Panel Discussion with Alberto Perez-Gomez March 9

Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Glass Corner, Parsons East Building
25 East 13th Street, Room E206, New York, NY 10003


Eyal Weizman to Speak at Zolberg Institute on March 16

Monday March 16th 2015 at 6pm
Wolff Conference Room (D1103)
6 East 16th Street


Video of Building Product Ecosystems: Launching a Framework for Success Event

Inaugural presentation was part of series of Building Product Ecosystem events planned for 2014 and beyond.


Climate Action Week Events at The New School

Join The New School for films, lectures and other events in advance of the People’s Climate March on September 21.


Re-Thinking the Urban Forest

In partnership with the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the NYC Urban Field Station, Parsons SCE is proud to host this public event to explore new approaches to the issue of urban wood reclamation.


Tropical Figure Ground: Smith Obayawat, Office of Bangkok Architects

Smith Obayawat, President of the Association of Siamese Architects and Founding Principal of the Office of Bangkok Architects, will present recent commercial projects aimed at drawing Bangkok’s residents outside of air-conditioned shopping malls into passively cooled urban spaces.


Bjarke Ingels: Social Infrastructure

Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:00 to 7:00 pm, Tishman Auditorium, The University Center, Room 100, 63 Fifth Avenue


Faculty Works in Progress – David White & Brooks Atwood

David White and Brooks Atwood each give a talk on Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in The Glass Corner.


Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro’s Modernologio

This exhibition explores Kon Wajiro’s (1888-1973) visual observations of material practices in Tokyo after the devastating 1923 Earthquake, particularly drawing from his work Modernologio (kogengaku) and from his surveys of “barracks” (makeshift structures for earthquake recovery).


Modes of Practice: Forward-thinking Design Practices

Today designers are working in a complex and fast changing environment – both socially and professionally. New and exciting modes of practice are developing in response to this change where designers cross disciplinary boundaries and experiment with new processes, business organizations, and fabrication techniques.


Abundant Access: Public Transit as an Instrument of Freedom

Jarrett Walker is one of the most innovative planners and advocates for public transit in North America today. In this engaging lecture, “Abundant Access: Public Transit as an Instrument of Freedom,” Walker leads us beyond some of the distractions that sometimes dominate transit debates, to an understanding of public transit’s core power: to give people freedom.


Adventures with Objects

A Conversation with Alexander von Vegesack
Founder, Vitra Design Museum
Founder and Director, Domaine de Boisbuchet


Faculty Works in Progress

The Faculty Works in Progress lecture series invites faculty members from the School of Constructed Environments to discuss current projects emerging from their professional practices. Faculty Works in Progress encourages forthright discussions of all aspects of a project, both challenging and successful.


INSIDE (hi) STORIES

Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art. A lecture with Donald Albrecht, Curator of the Museum of the City of New York, and Thomas Mellins, Independent Curator.


You’re about to Graduate, Now What?

Conversation with: Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis Magazine
and Recent SCE Graduates:
Silvia Maffei, MFA Interior Design ‘11
Steve Scribner, Master of Architecture ‘11
B. Star Davis, MFA Lighting Design ‘08
Ingrid Zweifel, BFA Product Design ‘10


A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California

Lecture and Discussion with Christopher Mount
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:00 to 7:00 pm
The Glass Corner, Room 206, 25 East 13th Street


Every Thought Flies: Launching the Zambonini Archive

Lecture by Robert Kirkbride
Thursday, October 3, 2013
6:00 – 7:00 PM
The Glass Corner, Rm 206, 25 East 13th Street

Exhibition Runs October 3 – 17, 2013


INSIDE (hi) STORIES, Mirror Reflections: Diplomacy and Decoration in France and Siam 1680s/1860s

INSIDE (hi) STORIES is a Histories & Theories series, curated by design historian Sarah Lichtman, Assistant Professor of Art and Design Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, and architectural historian Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Assistant Professor of Interior Design in the School of Instructed Environments.


SCE Faculty Works in Progress

Please Join us for Faculty Works in Progress with Luben Dimcheff and Andrew Dahlgren. Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 6:00 pm in the Glass Corner, 25 East 13th Street, Room 206.


David Trubridge Lecture and Workshop

Lecture: Wider Horizons
Thursday, September 26, 2013
6:00 to 7:30 pm
The Glass Corner
Room 206, 25 East 13th Street

Workshop: Telling Stories
Friday – Sunday, September 27-29, 2013
2nd Floor West Wall, Room 200, 25 East 13th Street


INSIDE (hi) STORIES: Allan Wexler on the Art of Building in Ten Books

Image: “Two Too Large Tables”, in collaboration with Ellen Wexler, Hudson River Park, NYC, 2006   INSIDE (hi) STORIES Allan Wexler: On the Art of Building in Ten Books September 12, 2013, 6:00 – 7:00 pm The Glass Corner, Rm 206, 25 East 13th Street   Wexler’s work explores the relationship …


Fall 2013 SCE Public Programs Schedule

  SCE CONVOCATION Introduction to Fall 2013 Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:00 – 7:00 pm Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th, 5th Floor Catered Reception to Follow INSIDE (hi) STORIES Allan Wexler: On the Art of Building in Ten Books Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:00 – 7:00 pm The Glass Corner, …