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Design And Urban Practice Colloquium #2: In The Urban Crisis

Presented by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, the Design and Urban Practice Colloquium #2 is a public lecture series on alternative and innovative forms of design and urban practice. February 9, 6pm Frank Morales, Housing ...Read More

Duncan Tonatiuh, IDP alum, wins 2012 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award

Duncan Tonatiuh, illustrator of "Diego Rivera: His World and Ours," and Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of "Under the Mesquite," are the 2012 winners of the Pura Belpre Illustrator Award and Author Award, honoring Latino authors and illustrators whose work best ...Read More

The School for Design Strategies welcomes Christian Schneider to Full Time Faculty

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Christian Schneider joins Parsons the New School for Design Strategies as an Associate Professor of Design and Management. He is a former Project Manager at IDEO, Designer at the Studio De Lucchi in Milan and co-founder of the NPO EWA ...Read More

Building the Economic Backbone of the Belgian Welfare State: Infrastructure, Planning and Architecture 1945-1973

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LECTURER: Michael Ryckewaert, KU Leuven, Belgium Michael Ryckewaert (1972) graduated as a Master of science and engineering in Architecture (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1995) and obtained a Masters degree in Urbanism and Spatial Planning (idem 2000). Since 1998 he is a researcher in ...Read More

Distinguished Visiting Professor Ezio Manzini awarded the 2012 Sir Misha Black Medal

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Distinguished Visiting Professor Ezio Manzini will be awarded the 2012 Sir Misha Black Medal at public ceremony held at the Royal College of Art on March 8th. Professor Ezio Manzini of Italy has been working for more than two decades ...Read More

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November 4th | Work from seventy seven students from the seven divisions of The New School forms the basis for this documentary of the University Lecture Course Cinemetrics: Change Detection and Agency. Students worked in teams filming the learning spaces ...Read More

Drawing Lab: Sensori-motor City

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October 27th | The Drawing Lab will transform Aronson Gallery into a three-dimensional data mining and drawing apparatus. The installation accumulates works made by the public: free-hand drawing, photo and video, spatial diagramming and measurement, textual performance and language play...which ...Read More

Design and Urban Practice Colloquium: Designing Innovative Legislative Advocacy for Urban Transportation Networks

10/19/2011 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Presented by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, the Design and Urban Practice Colloquium is a public lecture series on alternative and innovative forms of design and urban practice. The ...Read More

Pseudo Public Space

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October 8th | Parsons the New School for Design is pleased to host the The Art in Odd Places 2011 Festival panel discussion titled Pseudo Public Space moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic with panelists Tania Duvergne, Sara Reisman, Leon Reid IV, ...Read More

Glandathon Workshop

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October 1st | Parsons the New School for Design is pleased to host the The Art in Odd Places 2011 Festival key note address by Linda Mary Montano. Titled Glandathon Workshop, audience members will experience of the seven energy centers of ...Read More

Student Video Contest – (How) Does Climate Change Affect You?

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) and ARTPORT_making waves invite you to respond to this question. Selected work, chosen by a jury, will be screened in a compilation on the SJDC plasma screens at 2 W. 13 Street from November ...Read More

Making Cities: Whither Design?

Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue | To celebrate the launch of three new programs in urban design and urbanism at Parsons, and the separate publication of a seminal new book, ...Read More

Parsons Hosts Atlantis OCEANS Second Annual General Meeting

Parsons The New School for Design is hosting the Annual General Meeting of the OCEANS Network on September 16 and 17, 2011. OCEANS Network - the Organisation for Cooperation Exchange And Networking among Students – unites ...Read More

Walking Waves: Collected Sounds and Remixes of the City

Walking Waves: Collected Sounds and Remixes of the City

In a city like New York, how does sounds create comfort and how does it restrict it? Saturday, August 6, 2011, 2-4 pm The BMW-Guggenheim Lab opened it's doors in the East Village this week and will be running programs through ...Read More

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How Can Knowledge Transform Cities?

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Designers possess many strengths vis-a-vis cities:  an understanding of materiality, creative and interdisciplinary thinking, and the ability to dream about the future in concrete terms.  However, they need one more thing:  a deep understanding of how cities are truly shaped ...Read More

IDC Collab: Urban Dyeing

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May 21 | Roof Garden Tour. A project of Integrated Design program’s Urban Area of Study Coordinator and Director of the Urban Design program, Victoria Marshall’s, Urban Dyeing class. Free and open to the public. Location: 5th Ave (opposite the lobby of 66 ...Read More

Parallel Urban Ecologies – Design Strategies Dialogues

May 20 | Please join us for the Design Strategies Public Dialogue with Neil Brenner(Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University, NY) & Andy Merrifield (Geographer; Marxist Urban Theorist, Lyon, France on Parallel Urban Ecologies, the second event of ...Read More

BS Urban Design: Designing Urban Transformation (2)

May 16 | Students in the BS Urban Design program within the School of Design Strategies will present case studies of innovative urban design projects throughout the world. Location: 25 East 13th Street, between University and Fifth Avenue, 5th floor, room 502. Read More

Cinematic Drawings

May 16 | Ken Millington's class will join with Annette Millington's to explore chiaroscuro and narrative. Classes will create a still of the Third Man, gridded, enlarged on index cards. Location: 2 W 13th St, 6th floor Read More

Strategizing Design

May 16 | Roundtable fora presented by the Parsons School of Design Strategies on research and creative practice tackles the themes of strategic activism, form and meaning, demographic dynamics, and disruptive systems. Location: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Orientation Room ...Read More

Color, Space, and Light

May 16 | Natalia Zubko's class uses color and light to build 3D units that interact with the building's interior space. Location: 2 W 13th St, Room TBA. Read More

Drawing Devices

May 16 | Derek Haffar's students make wearable drawing devices to make/perform drawings with. Location: 2 W 13th St, 9th floor Read More

Urbanisms of Inclusion

May 14–20 | A weeklong workshop with ten Belgian and ten Parsons students presenting works in a collaborative design studio setting. Location: TBA (venues programmed with local organizations). Read More

Design and Management: Design 4 Panel Discussion School of Design Strategies

May 13 | A panel discussion to showcase a Spring 2011 course project that involved 60 students and 3 professors within the Design and Management program as well as GROW NYC, a New-York-based non-profit organization. Students were asked to create an ...Read More

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Design in Strange Places: A Transdisciplinary Design Symposium

May 13 | With increasing frequency designers are finding themselves in novel contexts addressing unexpected challenges using improvised and invented methods. With an ambition to apply design methods to issues such as the efficient delivery of government services, rethinking infrastructure, disaster ...Read More

Inetgrated Design Program: Fashion Area of Study: IDC Networks – The Gift

May 13 | Students and faculty from the Integrated Design program’s Fashion Area of Study will present their collaborative and community experiences within the two course sections of the FAoS Core Studio,  IDC Network: The Gift Location: 66 5th Ave., Kellen Auditorium Read More

Jazz Marathon Drawing

May 13 and 16 | Alaiyo Bradshaw's class will hold a drawing/painting marathon accompanied by performers from Jazz. Location: 2 W 13th St, 6th floor Read More

Dada Inspired Experimental Type Workshop

May 13 | Wendy Letven will conduct a hand lettering workshop involving narrative and performance. A wall mural and a stop-motion animation will be created. Participants and viewers are welcome. Location: 2 W 13th St, 9th floor, room 905 Read More

Food Fights: Transdisciplinary Research & Design Proposal

May 13 | Students in the Transdisciplinary Design Graduate program will be presenting the results of their research and design from this spring 2011 semester during which they sought to understand the design realities of the low income food ecosystems. Working ...Read More

Mandala Installation

May 13 | Anette Millington’s class will create a large floor mandala with found materials and objects. Location: 2 W 13th St, 6th floor Read More