Street Seats

In spring 2016, undergraduate students from The New School’s Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, and Schools of Public Engagement collaborated with the NYC DOT on the City’s Street Seats initiative as part of the “Design Build” course.

Design Workshop

The Design Workshop is an innovative studio that provides pro bono architectural and construction services to nonprofit organizations while giving graduate architecture, interior design and lighting design students the rare opportunity to both design and build a community facility.

Disaster Preparedness and Creative Design

Parsons School of Constructed Environments (SCE) collaborates with a leading expert on disaster preparedness education, Mr. Hirokazu Nagata, to conduct workshops and design intensive that will culminate in the first North America iteration of the collaboration exhibition, Earth Manual Project, which will be held at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in Fall 2018. Earth Manual Project is an accumulation of knowledge and ideas gleaned from the experience of living through disasters. It will showcase thoughtful works by designers, artists, and architects from Japan, Southeast Asia, and U.S.

The project started in Spring 2017 with This Could Save Your Life: Creative Design & Disaster Preparedness lecture, where Mr. Nagata introduced his body of work which included preparing children through games and survival camps, and creating easy-to-use pocket survival manuals, multi-functional emergency shelters, and other imaginatively designed products.

In Fall 2017, students in Parsons SCE engaged in a week-long intensive as they developed design solutions in architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design for surviving natural disasters. Students examined precedent case studies on natural and man-made disasters provided by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School.

This page provides disaster preparedness resources and highlights students’ works during the intensive.

Light Years

2015 marked 30 years since the first Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design students graduated from Parsons, the first program of it’s type in the world.

Luminous Talks

Luminous Talks brings together architects, lighting designers, academics, industry leaders and others to discuss innovations and current topics in the lighting design industry.

AIL Awards

The Lighting Design program was the 2009 host to the annual Architectural Lighting Magazine’s International Light and Architecture Design Awards.